Once the world’s mining superpower, the United States is now dangerously reliant on Chinese mineral supply chains. Yet, as we ...

Once the world’s mining superpower, the United States is now dangerously reliant on Chinese mineral supply chains. Yet, as we ...

Archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas found an old forest-monitoring lidar survey online and used it to reveal more than 6,500 previously unknown Maya structures in Campeche, Mexico. Among them was the vast ...

El Yesal does not appear to have been a small outpost deep in the forest.

Ancient earthwork centers reveal a sprawling Aquiry civilization once thrived. This society supported millions across a vast ...

The laser pulses pierced the dense vegetation and revealed 396 new earthworks, many of them geometric geoglyphs-precise ditches, embankments and enclosures.

MIT engineers have found a way to give chip-based lidar a wider, clearer view without relying on moving parts. Their design uses differently shaped antennas that can sit close together without ...

The discovery also answers a question that had long puzzled experts: why are these 31 pyramids clustered along a narrow, inhospitable band of desert, far from today’s Nile? The answer is that they ...

Beneath the seemingly unbroken canopy of the southwestern Amazon rainforest lies evidence of one of the largest monumental landscapes ever discovered in the ancient Americas. Using airborne LiDAR ...

Long before European contact, a sprawling, multicultural civilization flourished across the southwestern Amazon. It built massive ceremonial centers and transformed the rainforest. Scientists are only ...