New clues from the day the dinosaurs died. A mysterious ancient human tooth. Primordial galaxies. See how the past year expanded our knowledge of the cosmos and our own backyard.
As part of the announcement, the Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body highlighted the pace at which translation efforts have picked up in recent years. According to Brother Geoffrey Jackson, "It took us a little over a hundred years to reach 508 languages in January 2013. But it’s remarkable...
The most common vegetation type on earth—grassland—is often agricultural in usage. Many are either directly grazed, or, as is the case for the most productive ones, harvested for hay which is then consumed when pasture is no longer growing enough to support cattle or sheep. Rapidly increasin...
The speed of quantum computers raises concerns in encryption and cryptography. Current financial security relies on factoring large numbers (RSA or DSA algorithms), which traditional computers can’t crack within Earth’s lifespan. Quantum computers, however, could factor these numbers relatively quickly...
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It has love but also hatred, intrigue, revenge, poisoning rivals and even killing babies. The Chinese drama Story of Yanxi Palace is the most Googled TV show of 2018 globally, despite Google being largely blocked in the country. The search engine's analytics suggested that the top interest ...
Commonly the data after the event are disregarded—as it is often the most recent event that is being assessed, there will be no later data to use anyway. If we were to exclude data from after the record event, some regions where the record occurs early in the time series might have a...
Telescopes allow us to see dimmer objects because they can collect more light and more distant objects because they also magnify images. Still, even with our most advanced ground- and space-based telescopes and most comprehensive surveys, we have managed to map less than 3% of all the stars ...
Google Maps via Google Earth The Hotel Utica The Hotel Utica, dating back to the 1910s, is said to have its own resident ghost. Legend has it that a woman named "The Lady in Marble" haunts the hotel. Guests have reported seeing her apparition and experiencing strange occurrences, such as...
To resolve this problem, we identified the NW–SE dextral Averroes Fault as the structure in the fault system with the strongest evidence of recent and active seafloor offset at its northern termination (Figs. 1b,c and 2). Subsequent modelling the tsunamigenic potential of this structure reveals...