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Did 'all roads lead to Rome'? New study finds other cities in the empire were better connected.
The saying that " all roads lead to Rome " may be famous, but a new study finds it's far from true. Extensive new research of the Roman Empire's road system reveals that several other Roman cities were better connected …
Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in Patagonia — Earth from space
Where is it? Lake Pueyrredón and Lake Posadas, Argentina [ -47.41961002, -71.87622200 ] What's in the photo? The point where two different-colored lakes meet Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on board the Inter…
South American 'Pompeii': Volcanic eruption 22 million years ago preserved a snapshot of the Andes forming
A volcanic eruption 22 million years ago froze a snapshot of the Andes in their youth, revealing a slow-and-steady formation of this formidable mountain range. The eruption, which originated from the Lauca Caldera in w…
In women's reproductive years, their brains are exposed to high levels of sex hormones, and their neurons may come to depend on those hormones to function opti…
With fall now upon us, many of us will be dusting off our binoculars and telescopes ready for the longer nights this season brings. Earlier sunsets mean more s…
Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellation Dorado It looks like a gigantic hole punched through a cloud, but this spectacular new image from …
In a multicat household, it's common to see one cat licking another. When some people see this behavior, known as allogrooming ("allo" means "another individua…
Ancient armored fish, known as placoderms, evolved two distinct methods for crushing prey around 385 million years ago, revealing complex jaw mechanics that al…
Water fueled volcanoes 3 billion years ago via “dripduction,” not plate tectonics. This proves deep Earth water circulation began before modern tectonics, resh…
Researchers have introduced a unified framework demonstrating that thermoelectric performance relies on various factors beyond the materials themselves, includ…
Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral's elusive melting point — and found that previous…
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that hunt for cancer may do a better job when they approach the analysis as if they were a human pathologist, a new stu…
The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ is a pretty good telescope if your situation calls for a tripod-mounted instrument. If you’ve decided a tripod-mounte…
Given that it's the closest planet to the sun, Mercury seems like it should be the hottest planet in our solar system . However, at a blistering 900 degrees F…
