The mathematics encoded in the Great Pyramid pointed to a level of precision that shouldn’t have existed in the ancient world. Its original height and base, measured in royal cubits, produced the ...

On the left, a view of the Forbidden City's central axis unfolds under the crisp golden light of a winter morning. The ...

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Great flag design starts with simplicity. The best flags use basic elements – lines, colors, and symbols – but combine them in ways that feel meaningful and memorable. Here are five flag design ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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New research reveals that humanity’s earliest botanical art on ancient pottery featured complex mathematical patterns and ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...