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QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Yunlin County, Chianan Plain, Taiwan [23.78563273, 120.44373747]What’s in the photo? A multicolored ‘mosaic’ of small, tightly compacted farmsWhich satellite took the photo?…
In the early medieval period, the Vikings were just one part of a vast tapestry of Scandinavians who ruled, sailed, traded and fought around the world,…
An OpenAI agent was supposed to be researching public healthcare spending, but it broke into an Australian government website instead.The June 18 hack, which saw the…
Six people buried in a single grave in Latvia more than 1,000 years ago may have been killed in a bloody Viking raid, a new study…
An Inuit carving of a European, dated to around AD 1350 — the earliest depiction of a European in the Western Hemisphere.(Image credit: Canadian Museum of…
The prehistory of Indigenous Americans goes back tens of thousands of years before the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Bahamas, and recent scientific studies…
When Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492, he encountered Indigenous Lucayans living on the Bahamian island now called San Salvador. Columbus…
Since the discovery of their remains in the 19th century, Neanderthals have fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Although our understanding of these ancient hominins…
Quick factsWhat it is: A view of the moon from the Artemis II crewWhere it is: Aristarchus Plateau, on the moon’s near sideWhen it was shared:…
Aqueducts are some of the ancient Romans’ most prominent surviving archaeological remains. These aqueducts relied on gravity to bring down the water to cities gradually. But…
