drought

December 8, 2014

With three years of drought, very little rain, and record periods of warmth, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic [...]

Mysterious Structure Inside Giza’s Great Pyramid

The outlines of an empty cavity inside the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt have been revealed thanks to a bath of subatomic particles. Dubbed the “Big Void”, [...]
Easter Islanders had friends from afar? Scientists say Yes.

Though they inhabited a remote speck of land in the middle of the Pacific, with their closest neighbors living on an island 1,100 miles (1,770 km) away, the Polynesian people [...]
The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe

By IAN O’NEILL It’s funny when two seemingly distant theories conspire to destroy the universe. This may seem a little far fetched, but if our understanding of the [...]
10 Important Summer Travel Tips

By Diane Gottsman Start out with a checklist. Even a person with a great memory has multiple things to remember when planning for a trip. It’s always best to be safe [...]
Curiosity Rover Snaps Selfie to Celebrate First Martian Year

BY ALAN BOYLE The latest selfie from NASA’s Curiosity rover marks the “Marsiversary” of the robot’s landing on Mars. By Earth’s reckoning, that [...]

Mysterious Structure Inside Giza’s Great Pyramid