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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 …
A new look at sea-level rise projections discovered a threat to coastal internet infrastructure that may come much sooner than expected. By Rob Goodier – Getty Images – Brendan Smialowski. Climate change threatens many facets of modern human life, from eroding coastlines, …
Spiros Tsantilas – The 2018 V6 Café Racer is the first Levis motorcycle to be produced in 80 years (Credit: Levis) The last time Levis introduced a new motorcycle was in 1938, three years before it would shut down. Eighty years later, the …
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 …
Scientists have discovered a new species of human ancestor deep in a South African cave, adding a baffling new branch to the family tree. Naledi Fossils – While primitive in some respects, the face, skull, and teeth show enough modern features to justify …
