NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award at the agency’s Goddard ...

São Sebastião, a municipality on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil that was partially cut off from the rest of the ...

SilverStar Mountain Resort is going high-tech this winter, using the latest technology to enhance its already high-quality ...

Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...

No, this isn’t a plot from Indiana Jones: An ancient Maya city that’s been lost for centuries was just uncovered in Mexico.

Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...

A major Mayan city, named Valeriana, has been uncovered beneath the dense jungles of Mexico, thanks to Lidar technology. The ...

The technique, using thousands of laser pulses sent from a plane, can detect variations in topography that are not evident to ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

From the data, he created a "digital terrain ... mapping objects below based on the signal feedback. The Woods Hold Research Center then processed the data and made it freely available. LiDAR ...

A PhD student discovers a public dataset on 'page 16 of a Google search' that helps uncover a major urban center once home to 50,000 people in 800 AD.