Full of elaborate architecture and thrumming with vibrant tapas bars, the Aragonese capital is a rich, storied base for exploring the stirring landscapes of Spain's wild north east.
The fork’s journey from reviled symbol of moral decay to utilitarian instrument is a story of power, privilege, and humanity’s relentless desire to control and refine.
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
Over centuries and millennia, additional magma builds up, delivering more heat and pressure, pushing overlaying ground upward little by little. If the chamber receives a steady and substantial supply of hot magma, pressure builds in an often cyclical process called incubation. If it doesn't, then...
Scientists around the world agreed on that in last week's U.N.reportabout climate change, which found it is "unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuing deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, and sea levels will remain elevated for thousands of years." ...
Trade has shaped the tales of trees. Central African forest ebony has been coveted by string musicians for centuries: its density elevates the sound of violins and guitars. The arboreal equivalent of “blood diamonds”, this tree has l...
Many infectious diseases in humans, such as malaria, measles, and tuberculosis, have been known for centuries or millennia, and in many cases there are existing strategies and vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics (VTDs) to address them. However, for new and emerging zoonotic diseases, informati...
When periods of time are sequential, use ordinals. This refers to centuries and millennia, but also the amount of time passed doing something like school. the 21st century a third-year high-schooler This is my sixth month working here. Birthdays and anniversaries Ordinals keep track of bir...
Modern demographic theory suggests that it will take a thousand years for the human population to rise and fall again to sustainable levels, unless disaster supervenes. It will take many centuries for the effects of today’s big dams to work themselves through; mill...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...