Milky Way Over the Spanish Peaks
That’s not lightning, and it did not strike between those mountains. The diagonal band is actually the central […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Squid Are Thriving While Fish Decline
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Warming oceans, while detrimental to some fish, may be creating beneficial growing conditions for […]
Scattered Showers for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 16°C and a low of […]
Public Campaign Against Exxon Has Roots in a 2012 Meeting
By JOHN SCHWARTZ A gathering held four years ago in California outlined tactics for taking on the fossil […]
Earth May Be Home to a Trillion Microbes
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR According to a new estimate, there are about one trillion species of microbes on Earth, […]
The Hiroshima Mushroom Cloud That Wasn’t
By WILLIAM J. BROAD The image, a symbol of a city’s destruction that has been considered the moment […]
Cattle on the Wilder Side
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY A young reader wants to know whether there are any wild cows. Published: May […]
A Spat Over the Search for Killer Asteroids
By KENNETH CHANG A former Microsoft technologist questions NASA’s efforts to identify space rocks and their proximity to […]
Inside a Daya Bay Antineutrino Detector
Why is there more matter than antimatter in the Universe? To better understand this facet of basic physics, […]
Nile Crocodiles Found Really Far Out of Africa. In Florida.
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Four of the animals have been discovered in Florida. So far, there is no indication […]