More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls
By NICHOLAS WADE Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without […]
Daily Archives: January 20, 2015
28 Months on Mars
By Unknown Author NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence of lakes and streams on a warmer, wetter, habitable […]
Extreme Migration: Geese Hug the Himalayas
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Scientists have discovered that bar-headed geese stay close to the terrain on their round trip, […]
Electricity-Free Fountains
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY How did ornamental water fountains work before the availability of electricity or even steam […]
Amid the Clatter of Bats, a Call to Feed
By JAMES GORMAN When a greater mouse-tailed bat hears another bat hunting, it flies toward the sound, because […]
Infrared Orion from WISE
The Great Nebula in Orion is an intriguing place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a […]
AM Snow for today in Pully, Switzerland!
Good morning This is the weather forecast for today: With a high of 2°C and a low of […]
NASA Spacecraft Get a Closer Look at Dwarf Planets Pluto ...
By KENNETH CHANG The Dawn and New Horizons missions will soon start collecting data about Pluto and Ceres […]
Growing Older, Not Happier
By JANE GROSS ‘Essays After Eighty’ is a frank collection from Donald Hall about the tarnish of the […]
Food Detectives on a Tough Case
By PETER ANDREY SMITH A lab is at the forefront of an effort to keep China from dodging […]