When Is Daylight Saving Time? NYT | Top Stories Alan Yuhas 29 October 2024 at 22:41 The twice-yearly ritual has roots in cost-cutting strategies of the late 19th century. A recent effort to end it has stalled in Congress. © Leon Neal/Getty ImagesBenjamin Franklin is often credited as the first to suggest daylight saving time after realizing he was wasting his mornings by staying in bed.
In Mexico, Archaeologists Spot a Maya City Behind a Wall of Trees NYT | Top Stories Alan Yuhas 2 November 2024 at 19:29 A city with temple pyramids not far from the road and a site with a Maya complex built alongside a sinkhole lend to evidence that the Maya civilization was even more sprawling than known. © Luke Auld-Thomas Et Al, via ReutersIn this lidar image released by Cambridge University Press, what archaeologists in Mexico say is a newly discovered lost Maya city, which they named Valeriana, is hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche, Mexico.