Lighting Up the Night Skies
By DENNIS OVERBYE Australian astronomers produced a Gleamoscope that dials up visions of the skies from instruments using […]
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If Diamonds Are Forever, Your Data Could Be, Too
By JOANNA KLEIN A new paper suggests that a flawed diamond could be used to store significantly more […]
Propeller Shadows on Saturn’s Rings
What created these unusually long shadows on Saturn’s rings? The dark shadows — visible near the middle of […]
Prehistoric People Decorated With Cave Lion Pelts
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The discovery of nine fossilized claw bones suggests that prehistoric humans may have decorated […]
Clouds Near Jupiters South Pole from Juno
What’s happening near the south pole of Jupiter? Recent images sent back by NASA‘s robotic Juno spacecraft are […]
Why Does Fall Foliage Turn So Red and Fiery? It ...
By JOANNA KLEIN Many of the hypotheses for why leaves turn red before they fall off trees in […]
Spray-On Tanning, Considered
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Exactly how do such tanning products work, and do they work safely? Published: October […]
Spray-On Tanning, Considered
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Exactly how do such tanning products work, and do they work safely? Published: October […]
A Manhattan Exhibit With Antiquity on the Clock
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD ”Time and the Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity,” at the Institute for the Study of […]
Taking Down Dams and Letting the Fish Flow
By MURRAY CARPENTER On the Penobscot in Maine and other rivers in the U.S., several endangered species are […]