Archaeologists working in 3 to 13 feet of water along Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul say they have mapped streets, public buildings, and a Muslim cemetery, and they believe a major early-1400s earthquake pushed a medieval Silk Road trading town under the lake
It is easy to reach for Atlantis when a city appears under water. At Lake Issyk-Kul, though, the story is not a myth, and…..
An Australian Navy submarine detects unknown structures beneath Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, and the find suggests the seafloor there is more active than it looks
A robot submarine sent beneath West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf has revealed a strange hidden landscape carved into the ice from below, then disappeared…..
Science
Archaeologists working in 3 to 13 feet of water along Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul say they have mapped streets, public buildings, and a Muslim cemetery, and they believe a major early-1400s earthquake pushed a medieval Silk Road trading town under the lake
It is easy to reach for Atlantis when a city appears under water. At Lake…..
A metal detector finds more than 1,000 gold coins from the 1st century B.C., and the stash surfaces as if the ground kept a debt with history
A field in Great Baddow, Essex, has given archaeologists another glittering surprise. Two more Iron…..
A volunteer finds a tiny 1,600-year-old gold bead in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David, and that speck of metal revives a daily-life moment from another era
A tiny gold bead uncovered in soil from Jerusalem’s City of David is giving archaeologists…..
An Australian spider spins webbing with properties never seen in any material, and the finding puts biology ahead of engineering again
A small Australian spider is giving materials scientists a big problem to think about. The…..
In Britain’s Bronze Age 3,000 years ago, communities held massive meat feasts, and the gatherings may have functioned like a social network that kept groups together
Have you ever looked at the leftovers after a family barbecue and thought about what…..
A metal detector uncovers a 1,400-year-old Byzantine treasure, and the coins reappear as if they were hidden yesterday
A signal from a metal detector on a hillside above the Sea of Galilee led…..
Researchers find thousands of new microbial species in herbivore poop, and the discovery suggests the biggest biodiversity may live where nobody wants to look
Researchers studying animal droppings from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau have uncovered a vast hidden world of…..
IceCube releases its first report using a new neutrino analysis method, and the upgrade could sharpen how we “listen” to particles that cross Earth without leaving a trace
Far below the surface of Antarctica, IceCube is listening for some of the quietest messengers…..
Archaeologists entered a hidden rock-cut chamber beneath Luxor and found 22 painted coffins stacked in 10 rows plus 8 sealed papyri left untouched inside a pottery vessel, a cache tied to the “Singers of Amun” that reads like a sacred archive buried on purpose
Archaeologists in Luxor have entered a rock-cut funerary chamber and found a tightly packed cache…..
Scientists discover a new deep-ocean coral nicknamed “Chewbacca,” and Iridogorgia thrives where sunlight never reaches and life seems impossible
Scientists have formally described a new deep-sea coral with a name that sounds like it…..
Mobility
At about 39,700 pounds with six wheels, a V-shaped hull, and amphibious capability, Brazil’s Guaraní armored vehicle carries 11 troops across water and rough terrain, and its design shows how mobility is being modernized
A Brazilian armored vehicle is drawing attention not just for its size, but for the terrain it…..
While the world fights over oil, China just flew a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo plane powered by a megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop, climbing to 984 feet, covering 22.4 miles at 137 mph, and landing 16 minutes later with the engine running smoothly the whole way
The idea sounds like something pulled from science fiction. While countries argue over oil, China has tested…..
Energy
Economy
The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads
It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile…..
A marine scientist in Southern California has turned restaurant waste into coastal restoration by collecting more than 24,000 pounds of discarded oyster shells, curing them in the sun, and using them to rebuild reefs that protect shorelines and filter water
A pile of oyster shells might not look like the start of an environmental comeback…..
Del Monte’s Chapter 11 collapse left a California peach farmer staring at ripping out 20 acres of 9-year-old Ross cling trees tied to $12,500-an-acre contracts, after a shuttered Modesto canning hub and only 24,000 of 74,000 tons finding processing capacity turned the rest into fruit that may rot or be destroyed
A healthy peach tree can still become a crop with nowhere to go. That is…..
The rarest mineral recognized by science weighs about 0.011 ounces, exists as a single known natural specimen, and its discovery exposes how fragile Earth’s catalog still is
A tiny reddish-orange gem from Myanmar has become one of the strangest trophies in modern…..
The Port of Recife will spend about $19.7 million on dredging to handle ships up to 689 feet, and that quiet project decides which cities win or lose trade
Brazil’s Port of Recife is preparing for a major dredging project worth about $20 million,…..
Plans are underway in Cincinnati to build a new “Veterans Village” featuring 14 tiny homes on church-owned land. Each unit, measuring 276 square feet, will include a porch, kitchen, dining area, and full bathroom, and will cost $70,000, allowing veterans to move out of their temporary housing
A new tiny home village planned for Cincinnati’s Madisonville neighborhood could give 14 veterans something…..
São Paulo stuns with a roughly $1.35 billion megaproject – Brazil’s first immersed tunnel will span 0.93 miles and force the city to reinvent underwater construction logistics
Brazil is getting ready for a piece of infrastructure it has talked about for more…..
Prince William will sell one-fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall, and he says the profits will be funneled into housing and nature projects chosen for the biggest social and environmental impact
Prince William is preparing to sell parts of the Duchy of Cornwall over the next…..
A mother and daughter near Maysville turned down $26 million to sell farmland for a data center, and their blunt reason is that feeding the country matters more than a tech buyer paying roughly 10 times the land’s farm value
A Kentucky mother and daughter are refusing to sell family farmland for a proposed data…..
China receives the first shipment of 200,000 tons from Africa’s largest “hidden iron” deposit: the move smells like a geopolitical shift
A single bulk carrier does not usually make environmental news. But when the RTM Cartier…..
Technology
Environment
An Australian Navy submarine detects unknown structures beneath Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, and the find suggests the seafloor there is more active than it looks
A robot submarine sent beneath West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf has revealed a strange hidden…..
Iberian lynx are dispersing seeds and reshaping ecosystems in Spain, and researchers find that a top predator can also act as a gardener
The Iberian lynx has become one of Europe’s most celebrated conservation stories. Once pushed close…..
A study warns about nitrate and uranium interacting in U.S. drinking water, and the chemistry turns one contamination problem into a harder one to detect
What does fertilizer have to do with uranium in a glass of water? More than…..
Snipers and GPS-tagged goats are being used to save Galápagos tortoises, and the extreme strategy shows how far conservation goes when a species needs protection by force
Most people connect Galápagos tortoises with Charles Darwin, slow footsteps, and the big idea of…..
Chinese vessels are accelerating the collapse of fishing in Senegal, driving $300 million in annual losses and impacting 13 million people, a quiet crisis already hitting dinner tables
The crisis unfolding along Senegal’s coast is no longer just a story about fish. It…..
In Brazil’s Paraíba backcountry, the “Pedra da Maravilha” looks like it defies gravity on a tiny base, and the geological oddity has turned one rock into a tourism magnet
A strange-looking rock formation in Brazil’s northeast is getting fresh attention after a May 9,…..
Japan continues releasing treated Fukushima water, and each new discharge reopens the fight between science, public trust, and fear of the invisible in the ocean
Japan is still releasing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site, and the…..
An autonomous submarine named Ran mapped 54 square miles under Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf and found plateaus, terraced “steps,” and teardrop pits carved by basal melt, then lost contact and disappeared, leaving behind data that shows why melt can concentrate in hidden fractures models often miss
Ran, a robot submarine sent beneath West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, returned a set of…..
