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A huge, ancient Maya city has been found in southern Mexico

A massive Maya landscape has been hiding under a forested area of southern Mexico. The newfound city,...

Exploiting a genetic quirk in potatoes may cut fertilizer needs

Potatoes are the third-most consumed food worldwide and a delicious snack. But modern farm potatoes require large...

Putting vampire bats on treadmills reveals an unusual metabolism

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies...

Feather-inspired airplane flaps could boost flight performance

Airplane plumage might be the next big thing in aviation. Bird wings are contoured with overlapping...

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade...

The ‘midlife crisis’ is too simple a story, scientists say

The notion of a midlife crisis is dead. Or maybe it was always bunk. Now some scientists...

A phone app could help people have lucid dreams

If you want to have a dream where you know you’re dreaming, you might be in luck....

A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th century supernova

Some 6,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tendrils of hot sulfur. Nobody...

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia...

The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University...

How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered...

Readers discuss cloud formation, Stonehenge and Earth’s frenemy Jupiter

Icy moves Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and...
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