By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

New research published in Antiquity reveals the first scientific evidence that Peru’s puzzling “Band of Holes” — once ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca ...

Days and A Highland Song developers Inkle once pitched a Doctor Who game to the BBC, narrative director and writer Jon Ingold ...

The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

New research suggests the Band of Holes in southern Peru may have been first a market and later an Inca accounting device.

Earth carries an invisible ocean “water level” called the geoid. If only gravity and rotation shaped the oceans, the surface would match that geoid everywhere. However, south of India, the geoid sinks ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and ...

This amazing astronaut photo shows the bizarre whale-like shape of a Belizean tropical island. The coral-reef-covered structure is home to the Great Blue Hole, one of the deepest marine sinkholes on ...

While applying to attend John McPhee’s writing seminar at Princeton University in the fall of 2017, Ben Weissenbach wrote his 86-year-old instructor, “I want to follow in your footsteps, literally.” ...