A Year After Pluto
By JONATHAN CORUM Spinnable maps of Pluto and Charon, one year after the NASA flyby. Published: July 14, […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Daily Activity Summary for July 13, 2016
These are the results of my activities* for July 13, 2016: Total steps: 7245 Calories burned: 2511 Traveled: […]
The Mirrors Behind Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits
By STEPH YIN A new paper outlines optical techniques that the 17th-century Dutch painter may have used to […]
Rain for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 16°C and a low of […]
Astronomers Discover New Likely Dwarf Planet, the Latest of Many
By KENNETH CHANG The object was seen in the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy debris beyond Neptune. […]
M7: Open Star Cluster in Scorpius
M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. The cluster, dominated by […]
‘Inverted Cheerios Effect’ Returns Physics to the Breakfast Table
By JOANNA KLEIN Scientists’ discovery that liquids are repelled from one another on a thin enough surface could […]
New Dinosaur and T. Rex Were Brothers in Tiny Arms
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Gualicho shinyae was found to have evolved its stubby arms independently, suggesting there was […]
After 300 Years of Collecting, Nearly 12,000 Amazon Tree Species ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples in digitized museum collections to produce an […]