Early Maya cities featured monumental complexes, which centered on a shared form of religion but these complexes transformed radically once kingship emerged in 400 B.C. To solidify their power, rulers throughout the Maya lowlands would change these complexes, installing their mark on the landscape and reshaping how people remember it, according to a Dartmouth study published in "Ancient Mesoamerica."

Argonne announces the winner of the last U.S. Department of Energy CyberForce contest before the main annual event in November.

GlycoNet, a globally recognized pan-Canadian glycomics research and bio-innovation organization, is one of the 48 organizations across Canada receiving the “Encouraging vaccine confidence in Canada” PromoScience grant, which is administered by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Through this grant, GlycoNet will work with its partner, the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (CMASTE), to support national vaccine literacy and education through K-12 classroom tools and interactive digital campaigns.

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) has launched the Quantum Biology Center at UCLA, with the goal to train students and early-career scientists and engineers, to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations and to promote scientific networking. The center will be led by Clarice D. Aiello, a CNSI member and UCLA assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Initial financial support for the center comes from the National Science Foundation, the Kavli Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the D’Or Institute for Research and Education.