2,000-Year-Old Petroglyphs Mapped in Venezuela
Dr. Philip Riris from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and colleagues have mapped a series of rock engravings (petroglyphs), some of which are thought to be up […]
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Saturn’s Northern Storms Cause Disturbances in Its ‘Heartbeat’
Despite their considerable differences, the equatorial middle atmospheres of Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all exhibit a similar phenomenon: vertical, cyclic patterns of alternating temperatures and wind systems that repeat over […]
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Ten people who mattered this year.
When David Liu was an undergraduate student 25 years ago, he wrote a dissertation that his adviser remembers to this day. “It was absolutely word perfect,” says Nobel-prizewinning chemist E. […]
Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames
The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equations to describe his theory of relativity, but 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Philippines does just fine with a pick-up truck, a […]