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Nestled in the jungle of northern Guatemala, a vast network of interconnected Maya settlements built millennia ago has been mapped in unprecedented detail.The civilization featured towering…

The Mexican government is shutting down a plan by a California startup to inject sunlight-reflecting particles into the atmosphere with high-altitude balloons in an attempt to cool the…

Using a car-size prototype assembled atop a Swiss peak, an international group of researchers demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to use a laser to guide lightning.The…

The Energy Department said Tuesday that scientists at a federal research facility had achieved a breakthrough in research on nuclear fusion, long seen as a potential source of clean,…

SANDWICH, Mass.—Rob Martin eases the throttle on his 40-foot boat, pulls on his work gloves and prepares to hoist a string of lobster traps from the seafloor below. But instead of looking…

Elon Musk ‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink Corp. is expected to give a progress report on its brain-implant technology in a highly anticipated streamed event…

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt—The United Nations and the U.S. are working to expand the network of weather stations across sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia and the Caribbean and Pacific island…

Sixty-five miles off the coastal Norwegian city of Bergen, a drilling rig is punching through layers of mud and rock below the North Sea. The energy firms behind the rig aren’t prospecting…

Imagine a tiny sponge that weighs as much as a couple of sugar cubes, but that contains so many itty bitty pores that its surface area equals that of a football field.What if scientists…

The first mission to test a technology that one day might protect Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact achieved its goal on Sept. 26, when a fast-moving spacecraft smashed into and…