From super-sized natural wonders and man-made marvels to some of the weirdest, creepiest and teeny-tiniest sights, we take a ...

Deep inside the forested region of Campeche, researchers studying laser-based LiDAR data noticed shapes that did not match ...

Medina al-Zahira is tied to one of the most powerful and controversial figures of late Umayyad al-Andalus: Almanzor (al-Manṣūr). While the caliphs reigned, Almanzor is remembered as the de facto ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north-east of Mexico City. Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast ...

Zahira, the short-lived administrative capital built by Almanzor in the late 10th century as a symbol of his power and a ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Surface-area regulation is a little explored facet of cell motility, yet is likely to be crucial. Progress would be made if we could develop ...

High on a bluff above the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, a ghost city lies just beneath the grass. From the surface ...

Abstract: Due to the multiscale characteristics of defects and strong background interference, the automation of solar cell surface defect detection is still a challenge. To address this problem, this ...

Abstract: The infrastructures built on soft clay in the Dongting Lake area are more prone to settlement and instability due to its significant rheological properties. It is of great importance to ...