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Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula.Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The findings were published Friday in Science Advances.“The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really distinctive pattern of zigzag linear canals” running for several miles through wetlands, said study co-author Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire. The team then conducted digs in Belize’s Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary. The ancient fish canals, paired with holding ponds, were used…
NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to…
In an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster at landing pad
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Severe solar storm could stress power grids even more as US deals with major back-to-back hurricanes
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 3 scientists for work on proteins, building blocks of life
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel…
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
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Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. What happens when they burst open?
LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the…
NEW YORK (AP) — To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on…
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