Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of ...
Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...
Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.
In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
A lonely rover toiling among the sands of Mars has now answered an age-old question: If lightning crackles on the red planet ...
Most of us make frequent use of GPS technology to find our way around in our cars. There are increasing numbers of ...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has said that he believes “colossal data centres” will be built in space within the next decade or two — ...
A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...
Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...
The housing: The buildings surveyed in the report contained more than 3,000 single-room occupancy units in total. These are ...
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may ...