Claims of an ancient pyramid in Antarctica grew out of fiction, conspiracy theories, and later Google Earth speculation, but ...

Differences in how the pyramid and surrounding soil vibrate, along with design choices, have protected the structure from earthquakes.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...

It is easy to picture the Great Pyramid of Giza standing isolated against sand and heat, as if it had always belonged to a ...