In 1995, a NOVA team dared to demonstrate firsthand what has mystified historians for millennia: how to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians might have used.

The researchers are calling these virus-like structures “obelisks”, due to their presumed ... be just about as vast and mysterious as the ocean, or even space, but we’re slowly (ever so ...

Question: In the NOVA about Stonehenge, the A-frame you made had the ropes that the volunteers pull higher than the ropes connected to the rock, and in the NOVA about the obelisk, you had the ...

WSJ Opinion Docs: This 20 minute film sheds light on the worst antisemitic riot in American history, which occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. The current wave of antisemitism makes ...

Ark Survival Evolved features obelisks, also known as towers, beacons, or spires, which are enormous megastructures throughout the game. At the start of a journey, players can easily spot these ...

Nearly everyone fears death. How that fear influences human thinking and behavior is the focus of terror management theory (TMT) research. According to TMT, death ...

The ocean’s circulatory system may not be doing as poorly as previously thought. A vital ocean artery known as the Florida Current, a bellwether for the ocean’s ability to regulate Earth’s ...

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Middle Eastern militant group Hezbollah, was the main target of Israel’s powerful air strike in Lebanon Friday that leveled as many as six residential buildings.

Scientists have discovered that ocean waves may become far more extreme and complex than previously imagined. The new study, published in Nature today, reveals that under specific conditions ...

5 reasons you should care about our ocean Our ocean is in serious trouble. Heating, pollution, acidification, and oxygen loss pose serious threats to the health of the ocean and to all living ...

"Obelisks comprise a class of diverse RNAs that have colonized, and gone unnoticed in, human, and global microbiomes," the ...