New research has uncovered pyramid-shaped structures hidden deep beneath the sands of Egypt. These underground formations suggest a much larger and more complex ancient landscape than we ever imagined ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

The tour began with a hairy leg prised open along the shinbone. A woman steadied this limb on a surgical table as a man repeatedly clanked a medical mallet near its foot. Neither were doctors; they ...

Strange software bugs. Could benefit from extra light. No mobile device compatibility. Requires a computer. As a chronic tinkerer, I’ve always wished there was a simple, efficient, and effective way ...

While Squid Game viewers have long wondered about the meaning of the triangle, square, and circle shapes that regularly appear in the series, program creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has given a definitive ...

If there’s one thing that turns people off from adopting new tech, it’s being forced to look silly and feel uncomfortable for extended lengths of time. It was always the Achilles' heel for 3D in the ...

It’s one of the most fully intact sets of tools ever found on the continent. Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle shape, ...