Scientists have created a working nanoscale electomotor. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a nanometer-sized hole in a ...

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 ...

When it was built nearly 5,000 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world, a title it would retain for more than 3,500 years, until it was surpassed by several of ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

The location of the entrance to Egypt’s only ‘floating’ pyramid, named after Egyptian Pharaoh Senusret II, stumped archaeologists for more than half a century, but what was found in the nearby workers ...

A new study reveals that the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, Mexico, marks the astronomical orientation axis of the ancient city. The research team, coordinated by Ismael Arturo Montero García, ...

Great Pyramid of Giza, purportedly designed by Hemiunu. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 3.0 The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is the largest pyramid in the entire world. It is clearly one of the ...

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made a significant discovery beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Using advanced radar ...