
The many sacred structures built by ancient peoples had varied purposes. They functioned as places for ceremonial worship and tribal…
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The many sacred structures built by ancient peoples had varied purposes. They functioned as places for ceremonial worship and tribal…
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Artificial Intelligence is the iconic controversy of our times. Yet, complex, even sophisticated robotics is not unique to early twenty-first…
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The classical story of the discovery of the upper chambers inside the Khufu pyramid at Giza is well known. In…
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The alluring and perplexing ancient megalithic temples of Malta and Gozo (the smaller island just north of Malta) have been…
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Transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson—a philosophical visionary more complete than any other this nation has produced—identified two components to attaining…
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“People living more than seven thousand years ago may have possessed technical knowledge in astronomy and physics more advanced than…
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The question: ‘Is there a God?’ can provoke a strong response, as it should. After all, there really couldn’t be…
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Born 90,000 years ago, the child is the first direct evidence of interbreeding among Neanderthals and their cousins the Denisovans.
A child’s milk tooth, dating back at least 560,000 years, has been discovered in France. The tooth belongs to a sub-species of humans called Homo heidelbergensis.
https://interestingengineering.com/560000-year-old-milk-tooth-found-in-a-french-cave
A group of archaeologists from Texas State University have recently discovered about 150,000 artifacts near at the Gault Archaeological Site near Killeen. What they’ve found could change what we know about the timeline of human history.
Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology says the calendar-style text was made between AD 1021 and 1154 and it is the oldest known pre-Hispanic document. The controversial Grolier Codex contains a series of observations and predictions related to the astral movement of Venus.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mexico-maya-modex-1.4806032
A self-titled ‘multi-dimensional archaeologist’ claims to have finally unlocked the secrets of time travel after years of painstakingly cracking codes hidden in the mysterious Mayan calendar.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/951839/Time-travel-proof-Mayan-calendar-Tzolkin-time-traveller
Showing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited by artificially intelligent machines, new research has suggested.
https://techxplore.com/news/2018-09-ai-robots-prejudice.html
Reproducing prominent published research continues to be a challenge, according to new work that found researchers could only replicate 13 of 21 high-profile social science experiments published in the distinguished journals Nature and Science.
There is a long way to go, but a Japanese construction company wants to build a space elevator by 2050. Researchers at Shizuoka University, working in conjunction with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), were scheduled to begin trials on a miniature version in September.
American aerospace company Rocketdyne has successfully tested what it says is a next-generation propulsion capability that could enable deep space missions, the long-sought Ion Engine.
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A team led by scientists at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, has calculated…
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In 1863, Jacques Boucher de Perthes found stone tools and an anatomically modern human jaw at a depth of 16.5…
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