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While working on his land in a village in northern Egypt, a man made an astonishing discovery: the remains of two massive statues of Ramesses II. The man, Khaled el-Shahat, immediately notified the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, which sent a team to the village of Behbeit El Hagar to excavate and study the

The year is 2050, and as the sun sets, the night’s first constellations emerge in perfect rows. But these amber-glowing arrays aren’t stars at all; they’re satellite clusters, harvesting the day’s last rays before beaming their power back to Earth. If it reads like science fiction, that’s because it started that way. Called space-based solar

People may think of soil as just dirt, but it is anything but inert. Beneath your feet, a vast network of mycorrhizal fungi is hard at work, trading minerals with plant roots. This trading system helps enrich the soil, and it sequesters 13 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide each year — roughly equivalent to

For people with chronic back pain, everyday movements like bending down to tie their shoes or picking up a grocery bag can trigger painful flare-ups. Now, scientists have made a surprising discovery: These episodes may activate a brain network that’s associated with our sense of self. In a new study, the researchers found that movement-induced