Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have uncovered a 4,000-year-old pyramid unlike any other—built in a striking hexagonal shape and standing as the first of its kind on the Eurasian steppes.

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) ...

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...