One of the world’s top festivals of contemporary opera and theater has shifted format because of the novel coronavirus pandemic By RONALD BLUM Associated Press January 8, 2021, 11:18 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article NEW YORK — One of the world’s top festivals […]
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Humans have relied on plants for their healing properties as long as we’ve been incarnated on this planet. Sumerian clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia contained instructions for the herbal preparation of more than 200 different plants, including poppy and mandrake. A Neanderthal burial site discovered in the 1960s contained branches […]
Cambridge, Massachusetts — A Harvard University professor is making the case that we’re probably not alone in the universe. Astronomer Avi Loeb’s new book “Extraterrestrial” examines the 2017 flyby of a space object that he believes was truly out of this world. “At first people thought, ‘Well it must be […]
The galaxy NGC 6946 is a fan favourite among astronomers, thanks to its frequent supernovas and face-on position. Although the star cluster sits more than 25 million light-years away, its orientation gives us a direct look at its bright core, stars and coiling arms. The galaxy’s latest portrait was snapped […]
NEW YORK — For a man who first appeared on television when he was 2, showing Bob Hope how he could already swat golf balls, the public actually knows little about Tiger Woods. Getting behind carefully-constructed walls was the challenge faced by filmmakers Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman, whose two-part […]
NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this view of Jupiter’s southern equatorial region in 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Good news, space fans, we can look forward to many more jaw-dropping views of Jupiter. NASA said Friday that it has officially extended two trailblazing planetary science missions: those involving the Juno spacecraft and […]
Ice arches Look down on the Arctic from space and you can see some beautiful arch-like structures sculpted out of sea-ice. They form in a narrow channel called Nares Strait, which divides the Canadian archipelago from Greenland. As floes funnel southward down this restricted conduit, they ram up against the […]
SpaceX has been developing a line of Starship prototypes at its facility in South Texas Elon Musk is planning to soon launch the prototype of a vehicle that could be a game-changer for space travel. Starship, as it’s known, will be a fully reusable transport system capable of carrying up […]