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by Rachel Crane @CNNTech – My visit at Green Stream Farms in Columbus, New Mexico. I have commitment issues — with my diet. Name the diet, and I’ve tried it. I’m currently a pescatarian with fish as my main protein source. But …
A look at the available evidence By Adam Frank – Regis Duvignau / Reuters It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. …
Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 13, 2018 – 9:31pm A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa in Los Alamos, NM. Photo by Andrew Delorey …
Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 13, 2018 – 9:31pm – A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa in Los Alamos, NM. Photo by Andrew …
by Mike Colagrossi – The Colossus of Rhodes, Wikimedia Commons. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were marvels of architecture, human ingenuity, and engineering on a scale that even the greatest artists of contemporary times would have a hard time replicating today. …
Think you know beans about coffee? Quiz yourself and see how well you know your java. By Rachel Mount Hofstetter – 1. The name cappuccino comes from: a) The drink’s resemblance to the brown cowls worn by Capuchin monks b) The similarity in …
Her dramatic death often overshadows her epic life, but it shouldn’t. By Brianna Bibel, Biochemistry, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Illustration by Matteo Farinella. The mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Hypatia is considered the first known female mathematician and one of the “last great …
Anthony Wood – Images showing Neptune captured using the new adaptive optics mode, and another with it switched off (Credit: ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP)) Astronomers at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have achieved first light with a cutting-edge adaptive optics mode for the European …
David Szondy – The new quantum radar would negate the near-invisibility of stealth aircraft like the B-2 Spirit bomber (Credit: USAF) Stealth technology may not be very stealthy in the future thanks to a US$2.7-million project by the Canadian Department of …
David Szondy – Volumetric printing replaces layering with a process that creates the entire object simultaneously (Credit: LLNL) How do you create complex 3D-printed objects in seconds, instead of hours or days? A team of scientists and engineers led by Lawrence Livermore …