Hundreds of stone monuments scattered across northwestern Saudi Arabia may represent the oldest known ritual site on Earth. Researchers studying mustatils, courtyards made from sandstone blocks, date them to about 7,000 years ago, making them millennia older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids at Giza. Surveying the region by helicopter, the team found over 1,000 mustatils, … Read more
Hundreds of stone monuments scattered across northwestern Saudi Arabia may represent the oldest known ritual site on Earth. Researchers studying mustatils, courtyards made from sandstone blocks, date them to about 7,000 years ago, making them millennia older than Stonehenge or the Pyramids at Giza. Surveying the region by helicopter, the team found over 1,000 mustatils, … Read more
Pictured: The eye-popping 688ft-tall New York skyscraper that has a twisting space-age design like no other The renderings have been dreamt-up by Turkish architecture firm Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio Studio described the structure as ‘amorphous’ and having a ‘transparent, ghostly stance in the city skyline’ In 2019, it unveiled a design for a cliff-edge … Read more
Horses hurt as much as humans when whipped, as the animals have similar anatomic structures in the skin that detect pain, study reveals A new study reveals horses feel pain similar to that of humans Experts analyzed skin samples of dead humans and euthanized horses They found no significant difference nerve endings in the outer layer … Read more
Incredible buildings as you’ve never seen them before: Digital wizards use Google Earth Pro to create stunning top-down views of iconic structures, from the Eiffel Tower to the Gherkin Satellite views of the locations on Google Earth Pro were mixed with supporting photos to create the views Then, as a bonus, the team ‘brought the … Read more
Venus is geologically active and has as many as 37 recently ‘live’ volcanic structures called coronae that are dotted across its surface, according to astrogeologists. This overturns a previous theory that these ‘volcanic structures’ – first spotted through satellite observations of the planet – were long extinct. Researchers from the University of Maryland and the … Read more
What lies beneath: Researchers map hot, dense structures in the Earth’s mantle for the first time using a technique developed to explore deep space Experts from Baltimore, US, repurposed an algorithm known as the Sequencer This tool can automatically pick out trends from within large-scale datasets The team used it to analyse thousands of seismograms from … Read more
Build it – and the photographers, with their drones and digital SLRs, will come. These incredible pictures all made the top 50 in a contest called #Architecture2020, run by photo app Agora, which asked photographers to send in snaps of their favourite architectural wonders. In total 10,367 photos were submitted from snappers across the globe, with … Read more
Build it – and the photographers, with their drones and digital SLRs, will come. These incredible pictures all made the top 50 in a contest called #Architecture2020, run by photo app Agora, which asked photographers to send in snaps of their favourite architectural wonders. In total 10,367 photos were submitted from snappers across the globe, with … Read more