Category: Art

The sun welcomed October with a bang, firing off two powerful flares in just over 24 hours. The more recent of the two was an X solar flare , the strongest of its kind — and it was a powerful X, clocking in at X7.1 on the flare classification scale . That one peaked on...

The porch where former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has spent countless holidays and family milestones here in southwest Georgia is wrapped with wisteria boughs that shade a “Welcome to Our Porch” sign. Next door, a former boarding house where the Democratic president’s parents lived as a young couple a century ago also has a porch...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Undecided voters are less likely to cast their ballot, according to a new study which shows how the fragmentation of the political party system in the UK is fueling low turnout at elections. The number of citizens undecided in how they’d vote has risen in Western democracies. People are becoming less...

What is the first thing you do in the morning after you awaken? Many people immediately check their phones for notifications of messages, alerts and social media updates by their social ties. Ninety-seven percent of U.S. adults report owning a cellphone, with 90% reporting that they own a smartphone. While some researchers and media outlets...

Lalasha Yadav and his neighbors consider themselves doting parents—but not the kind you might imagine. For the past eight years, Yadav and his fellow farmers and fishermen along northern India’s Gandak River have raised and reintroduced more than 600 eggs and hatchlings of the critically endangered gharial, a prehistoric long-snouted reptile. Now found only in...

In northwest Saudi Arabia, the artistic heritage of the AlUla oasis is literally carved into the landscape. From the enigmatic rock art of the Neolithic era, through the colossal statues of the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms, to the monumental architecture of the Nabataeans, AlUla was already steeped in artistic tradition when a new and distinctive...

A platypus can sense an object’s location without touching it. Credit: Deposit Photos Researchers have designed a robotic “artificial skin” that is as unique as the team’s animal inspiration—the platypus. Created by collaborators between China’s Tsinghua University and the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, the dual-sensory system can interpret information not just from direct...

China launched separate sets of Earth-observation and “Internet of Things” satellites into orbit on Friday (Sept. 20) on two different missions. The action began at 12:11 a.m EDT (0411 GMT, or 12:11 p.m. Beijing time) on Friday, when a Long March 2D rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China. Insulation tiles...

The Compact Muon Solenoid detector is located 100 meters underground on the Franco-Swiss borderer at CERN and collects data from the Large Hadron Collider. The detector has been operational since 2010 and is used by one of largest international scientific collaborations in history to study the fundamental laws of nature. Credit: Brice, Maximilien: CERN After...