Jennifer Uscher Bathysphere The bathysphere—bathys is Greek for "deep"—was developed in the early 1930s by William Beebe and ...

This composite image shows RCW 103, the remains of a supernova explosion located about 9,000 light years from Earth, and its central source, in three bands of X-ray light detected by NASA’s Chandra ...

Some 110 million U.S. households use a range–or cooktop and oven–for cooking. About two-thirds of those are powered by electricity, while one-third use natural gas or other fuels. But of the ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) The centuries-old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is inspiring a scientific revolution. The rules ...

Is time travel possible? For centuries, these questions have intrigued mystics, philosophers, and scientists. Much of ancient ...

Restoring a ruin When the Acropolis Restoration Project began 30 years ago, Manolis Korres and his colleagues could have chosen to approximate the Parthenon's original state, adorning it with ...

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First Metal Money and Coins Bronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age and could be considered some of the earliest forms of metal coins. Metal tool ...

Egyptologists often talk about pyramids as "complexes," especially at Giza. How do the Pyramids integrate with the Sphinx and ...

At 146.5 m (481 ft) high, the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world for more than 4,000 years. Today it ...

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Containing 35 separate papyrus scrolls, Babatha's archive is the largest single collection of ancient documents ever found in ...