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A vast, 3,000-year-old earthwork hidden in the jungle of southern Mexico may represent one of the earliest known attempts to create a "cosmogram", a map of the cosmos in monumental form, according to ...

Some furloughed government workers will return to work to produce a key inflation report for September, allowing for the calculation of Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment for 2026 Despite the ...

Diatomaceous earth is a natural pest control agent used to control various insects. Experts agree it is somewhat effective against stink bugs, but not the best option. Instead, prevention and ...

About 6,500 years ago, Neolithic groups dug several sets of concentric circles into a field in Austria. With time, grass grew to obscure the earthworks, which were unnoticed by subsequent inhabitants ...

Sometime in the 6th millennium B.C.E., tribes that had for centuries roamed the eastern foothills of the Alps began abandoning hunting and gathering. In place of a nomadic lifestyle, these tribes ...

Stan Herd's latest artwork, "Young Woman of Mexico," is unveiled just north of Lawrence on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Crop artist Stan Herd unveiled a new earthwork Wednesday to the northeast of ...

For centuries, a nondescript field near Rechnitz, Austria, held an ancient secret that sat just out of sight. Virtually invisible to the naked eye beneath waves of grass was a series of earthwork ...

The project area Kreisgrabenanlage & Steinzeitdorf Rechnitz. Credit: Office of the Burgenland State Government, Department 7 – Education, Culture and Science, Archaeology Burgenland in the Science ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

Abstract: Due to safety characteristics, nuclear power plants often involve significant earthwork excavation and filling during design and construction. In order to quickly and accurately calculate ...