Apple Vision Pro owners will be able to watch live basketball games in the Apple Immersive format starting on Friday, January ...
The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo’s best-reviewed game franchise, and for many good reasons. The company has consistently ...
Andrey Itkin and Yerkin Kitapbayev examine a semi-analytical approach for pricing American options in time-inhomogeneous models characterised by negative interest rates (for equities/foreign exchange) ...
A fresh wave of creativity has swept across social media platforms as users discover a new viral trend using Google Gemini's Nano Banana Pro. Following the success of Akshaye Khanna's moves in ...
China’s pursuit of maritime dominance has shifted from a regional ambition to a global reality, driven by a “breakneck speed” naval expansion that rivals that of the U.S. during World War II. The ...
Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago. The volcanic rock used for the moai came from a quarry site called Rano Raraku. Archaeologists have ...
A high-resolution 3D model of Rano Raraku shows that the moai were created in many distinct carving zones. Instead of a top-down system, the statues appear to have been produced by separate family ...
Conducting research on the main quarry of Easter Island is challenging in ordinary circumstances. The easternmost Polynesian island is a six-hour flight from the nearest airport and reaching parts of ...
Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...
Screenshot from a three-dimensional model of Rano Raraku quarry produced through Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry. This comprehensive digital documentation, derived from 11,686 UAV images, reveals ...
A first-of-its-kind high-resolution 3D model now lets anyone explore Easter Island’s Rano Raraku quarry up close. The interactive model reveals how the island’s iconic moai statues were created across ...