Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Maya Site Discovered on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula
Ancient Engineering

Maya Site Discovered on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula

Mural painting at the site of El Jefeciño, Quintana Roo, Mexico QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO—Riviera Maya News reports that an archaeological site dubbed El Jefeciño was discovered on the Yucatán Peninsula by researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History during an investigation along the route of the Maya Train Project. Some 80 buildings have…

1,700-Year-Old Amber Workshops Identified in Central Poland

MASOVIA, POLAND—Jewelry was produced in east-central Poland with amber likely imported from the Baltic Sea region, according to a Science in Poland report. As many as 10 workshops in five settlements have been identified through fragments of raw amber, semiworked pieces of amber, and finished decorative amber beads and pendants. These small workshops have been…

“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”

It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection.Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II?Was it God who laughed last, or we who made God laugh?Letters carried by doves, telepathic waves.Then Nikola Tesla conjured radio,electromagnetic…

The Chip That Made Hardware Rewriteable

Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence tools—depend on field-programmable gate arrays. Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can be reconfigured after manufacturing.On 12 March, an IEEE Milestone plaque recognizing the first FPGA was dedicated at the Advanced Micro Devices…

Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes

When it comes to AI models, size matters.Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model.As models grow in size, their capabilities…

Scientists think they finally know why Neanderthals vanished

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed stronger, more flexible networks that helped them survive environmental shocks. Neanderthals had connections too, but they were more fragile and regionally limited. This made them less…

Sanskrit Seal Refers to Sacred Shiva Text
Ancient Engineering

Sanskrit Seal Refers to Sacred Shiva Text

Sanskrit seal HYDERABAD, INDIA—The Times of India reports that researchers led by epigrapher K. Muniratnam Reddy from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have decoded a Sanskrit inscription written in Brahmi characters on a seal discovered in what is now Pakistan. The translation reads, “Devadaruvane Svami Kotesvarah,” indicating that the fifth-century a.d. seal belonged to…

Remains of Byzantine Plague Victims Studied

TAMPA, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of South Florida, a mass grave containing the remains of victims of the Plague of Justinian (A.D. 541–750) has been identified at the site of Jerash in northern Jordan by a team of researchers led by Rays H.Y. Jiang of the University of South Florida. Hundreds…

Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies

This webinar covers power system modeling and simulation across multiple timescales, from quasi-static 8760 analysis through EMT studies, fault classification, and inverter-based resource grid integration.What Attendees will LearnProgrammatic network construction and multi-fidelity modeling — Learn how to build power system networks programmatically from standard data formats, configure models for specific engineering objectives, and work across…

Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering.The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments do biology. Engineering departments do engineering. Medical schools treat patients.NYU is turning that model inside out.…