Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Finding a Place for Heliolisk is one of the Side Missions in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and it sends you hunting for a spot that checks all the boxes for the requestor’s picky Heliolisk. It can feel a ...

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Perry has been growing as a filmmaker, but this connect-the-dots love story is a throwback, and not in a good way. He was out hunting and rescued her (how that happened isn’t clear — the last we saw ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Life on Earth runs on liquid water. Single-celled organisms appeared almost as soon as our planet could sustain them, but multicellular life took around three billion years to emerge. Humans, in ...

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Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

A new study aims to answer the centuries-old question of how the Great Pyramids were built thousands of years ago, and its findings have provided an unexpected possible answer: water. Though deserts ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.