Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

A 2024 satellite photo shows an unusually active bloom of toxic cyanobacteria swirling in the water of Nevada's Pyramid Lake. Research suggests that the algae has been blooming there for at least ...

A recent study claimed Gunung Padang in Indonesia is a 25,000-year-old pyramid. This challenged established timelines of human civilization. Experts questioned the findings, citing a lack of evidence.

Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has given the Pyramid of Tirana a colorful makeover and a future-facing new purpose. The structure was first built in 1988 as a museum honoring Enver Hoxha, the former ...

Imagine, for a brief moment, that you are a student athlete playing on a Division 1 volleyball team. As part of your regular season, your team is competing against Cal State Long Beach on its home ...

A pyramidal prism/angular cube reflector is always used to reflect a beam of light into the prism, regardless of the direction of the beam. Corner prisms are widely used where accurate alignment is ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...

On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth's magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. When Earth gets bombarded with plasma from the sun, ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a human-made pyramid. A mountain that's hidden in a sea of snow in Antarctica looks strikingly like an ancient Egyptian pyramid when viewed from above. But ...

Back in June, construction workers in Hidalgo, Mexico were hard at work adding a third lane to the Pachuca-Huejutla highway when they stumbled upon a 1,375-year-old pyramid. Their historic discovery ...