Atlas V Launches MMS
Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes don’t go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species […]
Science
The Waves of the Future May Bend Around Metamaterials
By JOHN MARKOFF Scientists have learned how to construct materials that bend waves of light, sound and seismic […]
Hydrogen Bomb Physicist’s Book Runs Afoul of Energy Department
By WILLIAM J. BROAD Kenneth W. Ford, who helped devise the weapon more than 50 years ago, has […]
With New Nonstick Coating, the Wait, and Waste, Is Over
By KENNETH CHANG LiquiGlide has found a way to make the interiors of some bottles permanently wet and […]
Tiny Internal Tornadoes Bring Drops to Life
By JAMES GORMAN Researchers at a Stanford lab make colored drops of water and propylene glycol chase each […]
With Expansion of Medicaid, Some States Are Identifying More New ...
By SABRINA TAVERNISE A new study suggests that because of the Affordable Care Act, the disease is being […]
A Double Eclipse of the Sun
Can the Sun be eclipsed twice at the same time? Last Friday was noteworthy because part of the […]
Northern Equinox Eclipse
Snowy and cold is weather you might expect at the start of spring for Longyearbyen on the Arctic […]
Sunshine, Earthshine
Today’s date marks an Equinox and a New Moon. Remarkably, while the exact timing of both geocentric events […]
Europeans (Carefully) Gaze Upward for Glimpse of the Solar Eclipse
By DAN BILEFSKY and MELISSA EDDY As officials warned of possible power outages and encouraged people to view […]