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A PhD student scrolling through Google search results stumbled upon laser data that revealed an entire ancient Maya city hidden beneath Mexican jungle for over a thousand years. The discovery shows countless more lost cities may be waiting in overlooked online files.
Scientists just tripled the known size of a mysterious 2,500-year-old Amazon civilization that may have been home to 3 million people. Laser technology revealed hundreds of massive earthworks hidden beneath the jungle canopy.
Scientists just discovered a massive ancient civilization of up to 3 million people hiding beneath the Amazon rainforest using laser technology. The finding completely rewrites what we thought we knew about the Amazon before European contact.
A graduate student scrolling deep into Google search results stumbled upon data that revealed Valeriana, a massive ancient Maya city hidden beneath Mexican forests for over 1,000 years. The discovery challenges everything archaeologists thought they knew about Maya civilization.
A bored PhD student scrolling deep into Google search results stumbled upon laser data that revealed an entire ancient Mayan city hidden under Mexican jungle for centuries. The metropolis once housed up to 50,000 people and nobody knew it was there.
A California company just launched the first sensor that captures full color and 3D depth information at the same time, making self-driving cars and robots safer and smarter. The breakthrough eliminates the need for separate cameras and could accelerate the arrival of autonomous vehicles in our cities.
MIT researchers just solved a major problem that's kept lidar sensors bulky and expensive. Their breakthrough could bring safer, more affordable self-driving cars to our roads within years.
Self-driving cars just got a major safety upgrade. The world's largest Lidar manufacturer announced breakthrough technology that can see in color, detect speed, and identify objects faster than ever before.
Laser technology has uncovered entire civilizations hidden beneath jungle canopies, revealing more than 60,000 previously unknown Maya structures in Guatemala alone. These discoveries are rewriting history books about how millions of ancient people lived, worked, and thrived.
