Machu Picchu was built by the Incas, one of several cultures that settled in the Central Andes over thousands of years. Matthew Butcher By Elizabeth PennisiMay. 7, 2020 , 12:00 PMSome of the world’s more famous and closely examined archaeological sites pepper the hillsides of the Central Andes, documenting an invention of farming and the…
By Donna Lu This Martian cliff may have been cut by hundreds of thousands of years of water flowing over itFaculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University We know from images of Mars’s surface that the planet once had plenty of flowing water, but now we’ve found the first evidence of a river that flowed there for…
By Colin Barras A dagger from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun is made of meteoritic ironrobertharding / Alamy The sky is an enormous iron container filled with water and chunks of it occasionally fall off and plummet to Earth as iron meteorites. Or, at least, that’s what ancient Egyptians seem to have thought. Iron…
By Michael Le Page When archaeologists find ancient faeces, knowing who left it is important Tim Wright/Getty Images Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has been developed to discern…
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara
The recalled product was distributed nationally through the online platforms, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Target, and the company's websites, tnvitamins.com and doctorspride.com. Published: June 12, 2026, 10:11 pm Total Nutrition Inc. of Deer Park, NY is voluntarily expanding its recall of TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride Ultra Potent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules because they have