Indiana Jones

THE SANDSTONE CLIFF FACES OF THE ancient city of Petra (one of the New Seven Wonders of the World) have long been in the archaeological limelight.

Humans: Neanderthal

\"THERE IS NOTHING LIKE LOOKING, if you want to find something,\" says Thorin Oakenshield in J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved fantasy novel The Hobbit. \"You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.\"

WILL WE EVER UNLOCK ITS SECRETS?

2,000 Years Ago, the Greeks Built What May Be the World's First Computer.

Quantum Paradox

FOR OVER 100 YEARS NOW, QUANTUM mechanics has rattled the cage of everything we've known about physics. Is everything just made of wiggles and waves if you look closely? How far can one entanglement be stretched-is it long enough to enable quantum telecommunications?

Consciousness

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents' brains are responsible for consciousness.

COMB JELLY

THE WARTY COMB JELLY, MNEMIOPSIS leidyi, is a fascinatingly weird creature that can regenerate parts of its body, reproduce from a larval stage, and even fuse its body with other comb jellies in order to survive when injured.

FOREVER

Two Tornadoes Struck the Same Military Base Five Days Apart in 1948. It Changed the Way We Forecast Weather

HOW TO BUILD A DIY ROUTER SLED

Flatten wood slabs at home with the precision of a professional.

Fastest Submarines

IMAGINE A SUBMARINE SO FAST THAT IT CAN outrun a torpedo. That could soon be a possibility, thanks to a breakthrough propulsion method that Chinese scientists claim could produce the fastest submarines in the world.