This week in stories we’re covering at The Debrief, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has been rediscovered and is now rising from its ancient resting place in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just spotted something in a hilly area of the Red Planet that you have to see; fortunately, the space agency has unveiled it all in stunning new images. And finally, this unusual object should have been “impossible” to create using Iron Age tools… so how did its ancient crafters make it?
Ready to dive deeper? Here’s a look at several of the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief…
- One of the Ancient World’s ‘Seven Wonders’ Resurfaces, a Red Planet Photo Op, and an “Impossible” Artifact
- “We Don’t Have Any Records So Far”: Archaeologists Discover Ancient ‘Monolith’ in Mexico Unlike Anything Previously Seen
- Scientists Used Water to Uncover a Strange, ‘Invisible’ Quantum Phenomenon That Remained Elusive for Decades
- Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Aren’t Caused by What Scientists Used to Think They Were
- Ancient Romans Buried Secret Coin Hoards Across Europe and Never Retrieved Them—Now Archaeologists Finally Know Why
- “It Has a Hidden Order That Becomes Visible”: Physicists Just Discovered a Bizarre New Quantum State
- Scientists Create Bio-Inspired Robots to Hack the Hovering Powers of This Exceptional Species to Build Better UAVs
- The First Ancient Protein Analysis of Homo Naledi Has Revealed a New Burial Mystery
- New Research Suggests Human Laughter May Hold a 15-Million-Year Old Secret
- Lost for Centuries, One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Has Been Rediscovered, and is Now Rising from the Mediterranean Sea
- Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Brain Circuit That Filters Distractions
- Something is Swarming in Swirls of Green in the Black Sea—and These NASA Images Captured the Phenomenon from Orbit
- Look What NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Just Spotted Lurking in the Red Planet’s Arbot Hills
- 2,700-Year-Old Assyrian Artifact Made from Odd Material Should Have Been “Impossible” to Craft with Ancient Tools, Archaeologists Say
- Whirlpool in Spacetime Around a Black Hole Merger Provides First Detection of this General Relativity Prediction