From the day Archimedes cut his bath short to shout “Eureka,” science has been a constant source of surprises.
Even after the abundant accumulation of knowledge in the intervening two millennia, science still retains the capacity to astonish, and the century since Science News began reporting has produced its share of shocking discoveries. Some such surprises happened suddenly (if not necessarily with eureka moments); in other cases, revolutionary shifts in understanding took a while to seep slowly into general scientific
In 2005, Katharine Hayhoe, a Canadian climate scientist and evangelical Christian, moved from South Bend, Indiana, to Lubbock, Texas, a flat expanse of arid grassland that sits at the edge of the Permian Basin, and is one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world. Her husband had been offered a position as a linguistics professor at Texas Tech and a job as a pastor at a small local church. The opportunity was too enticing to decline, so
For 76 years, Pluto was the beloved ninth planet. No one cared that it was the runt of the solar system, with a moon, Charon, half its size. No one minded that it had a tilted, eccentric orbit. Pluto was a weirdo, but it was our weirdo.
“Children identify with its smallness,” wrote science writer Dava Sobel in her 2005 book The Planets. “Adults relate to its inadequacy, its marginal existence as a misfit.”
When Pluto was excluded from
This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and economic disaster.
The results of that project are here: “Three Weeks That Changed Everything.” If you’re wondering, the three weeks I have in mind are: January 1, 2020—when first mentions of an outbreak of a new “pneumonia type disease” in central China would have appeared in the CIA-produced
Bok told him that this was not the right answer. “He said it was like the opera, or poetry,” Helfand told me. “That the right response was because it was what distinguishes us as human.” Astronomy is worthwhile in the way that art is worthwhile. “And so that’s how I became an astronomer.”
This is not the first time that NASA has spent more than twenty-five years and vast resources on a project that might fail. At the end of
Diese Geschichte ist Teil von Covering Climate Now, einer globalen Journalismus-Kollaboration, die von . mitbegründet wurde Die Nation und Columbia Journalismus Rezension die Berichterstattung über die Klimageschichte zu stärken.
TDer Klimagipfel COP 26 der Vereinten Nationen im November dieses Jahres sollte bereits zu einem der wichtigsten diplomatischen Treffen der Geschichte werden, ein Treffen, bei dem die Staats- und Regierungschefs der
The last time I played clarinet with my band was on March 10, 2020. It was a typical Tuesday evening rehearsal: About 10 musicians crowded into a small basement room, sipping beers and chatting between tunes. Brass instruments, woodwinds and drums blared, with bass lines audible from the stairwell.
Since 2004, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra has practiced in the same space, a couple of blocks from the East River in Brooklyn, N.Y. The room is cramped — chairs and music
Das London Science Museum erklärte sich bereit, Shell im Rahmen eines Sponsoring-Deals für eine Ausstellung über CO2-Abscheidung nicht öffentlich zu kritisieren.
In einem Vertrag an die Kampagnengruppe Culture Unstained gemäß den Gesetzen zur Informationsfreiheit sagte das Museum, es werde „keine Erklärungen abgeben oder Werbung machen oder sich anderweitig an Verhaltensweisen oder Angelegenheiten beteiligen, die vernünftigerweise als Diskreditierung oder Schädigung des guten Willens angesehen werden können oder“ Ruf des Sponsors.“
Die Ausstellung mit dem Titel Our Future Planet untersucht verschiedene natürliche
“Eines der Hauptprobleme war Masse und Gewicht”, sagte Gary Bradski, Cheftechnologe bei OpenCV.ai, einem Entwickler frei verfügbarer Bildverarbeitungssoftware. “Ich meine, wie viel Gewicht kann deine Nase halten?”
Die Leichtigkeit ist ein Vorteil von Metalenz, das ultradünne Linsen aus zweidimensionalem Silizium demonstriert hat, die mit ultradünnen transparenten Strukturen strukturiert sind, die jeweils kleiner als die Wellenlänge des Lichts sind. Die Herstellung der Linse wie integrierte Schaltkreise bietet jedoch andere wichtige Vorteile.
“Eines der leistungsstärksten Dinge, die Sie von Metamaterialien oder Metaoberflächen
Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps the country’s best-known popularizer of science. The astrophysicist, who is 62, has achieved that status through his ever-expanding body of work in television, podcasting, journalism, social media and books (his latest is the new “Cosmic Queries”) and as director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has done so at a time when, distressingly, skepticism toward established science has become increasingly widespread. Tyson himself received some scrutiny
