Yucatan, Nov 23. - Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already modifying the landscape of the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America.
The Guinness World Record has officially recognized the Step Pyramid of Djoser, built in Egypt around 2630 BC, as the oldest pyramid in the world. However, a recent paper published in October presents an intriguing theory: it suggests that a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid, located in Indonesia, could have been erected approximately 25,000 years ago.
US, Nov 16 - Following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the number of users, mainly Americans, of the social network X, owned by Elon Musk, who this year became one of the people closest to the future tenant of the White House, began to decline significantly.
In the Al Nafud desert, in the Saudi province of Al Jawf, in the northeast of the country, the first snowfall in its history has fallen.
UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest writing system.
A mysterious orange gelatinous sac filled with live eggs stuck together has been discovered afloat in a canal in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, local portal AD reports.
USA, Nov 9. - Watching a movie is not exactly a walk in the park for the brain: in fact, it activates 24 different circuits to be able to follow the presence of people, inanimate objects, dialogues or action sequences.
USA, Nov 8. - Fax is an old technology supplanted by servers and online that, however, resists in some offices and also in the private use of some celebrities, such as Dolly Parton.
The great tool of science is its constant revision, which leads to scientific progress. Here is an example. Recently, there has been a breakthrough that changes the foundations of organic chemistry: a group of chemists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has managed to violate one of the oldest and most respected rules of this discipline: Bredt's rule.
The Greenland shark is the focus of research by international scientists who have sequenced its genome for the first time, revealing a complex genetic map of extreme longevity of more than 400 years.
United Kingdom, Oct 31.- An expert in digital facial reconstruction has revealed what the face of a possible Sudanese princess who was buried and mummified in Egypt at least 2,500 years ago looked like. Her sarcophagus has been part of the collection of the Perth Museum in Scotland (United Kingdom) since 1936, according to The Guardian.
USA, Oct 30.- NASA identified nine possible areas for the return of humans to the Moon with the Artemis III mission and will continue to analyze others for future expeditions.