Un nuovo studio condotto dall'istituto parigino Paleotechnic e pubblicato su npj Heritage Science ridisegna le teorie sul cantiere della Piramide Rossa del faraone Sneferu. Le due strutture lineari scoperte nell'Ottocento vicino a Dahshur, ritenute finora rampe di trasporto, si sono rivelate un sistema di dighe accoppiate progettato per contenere le piene del Wadi Dahshur e regolare un canale navigabile. La scoperta dimostra come gli ingegneri dell'Antico Regno sfruttassero la gestione idraulica per movimentare via fiume pesanti blocchi di pietra e rifornimenti direttamente verso i cantieri dei monumenti.

Certaines des caractéristiques du Système solaire, à commencer par l'origine de la Lune, s'expliquent par des événements et des scénarios violents. Que faut-il en penser dans le cas de certaines des lunes de Neptune depuis que le télescope James-Webb a pris le relais de Hubble ?

Space surveillance venture Look Up plans to use Skynopy’s ground station network to help automate its proposed low Earth orbit collision avoidance service, the French startups announced June 17.

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AI could accelerate the hunt for new physics, but sometimes it knows too much to see what’s right in front of it. Artificial intelligence could make it much cheaper and faster to search for new laws of physics, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). But the [...]

Chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate that marine environments were deteriorating long before the catastrophe that wiped out vast numbers of species at the end of the Triassic period, around 201 million years ago.

The post Ancient Oceans Began Losing Oxygen Millions of Years before End-Triassic Mass Extinction appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

With early tests suggesting the presence of crude oil, the Caribbean island has begun to debate whether it could justify becoming a producer

Jamaica is closer than ever to drilling for oil. Tests on samples from the seabed off the Caribbean island’s south coast earlier this year identified hydrocarbons, which suggest the presence of crude oil below ground.

Jamaica imports all its fuel, which costs about $1.5-2bn (£1.1bn-1.5bn) annually, depending on global oil prices. It is a persistent drag on an economy that generated $4.3bn from tourism, its biggest earner, in 2024.

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