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The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.
Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...
The closest a tropical storm or hurricane has ever come to crossing the equator was Typhoon Vamei in December 2001 in the western Pacific, which got within 100 miles of the equator, forming at ...
Laririt reiterated the need for “bold steps” toward the development of the national blue carbon road map. “It must be one ...
Jurassic World Rebirth introduces a new island of dinos for all of us to be terrified of visiting. Here's how it fits within ...
The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...
The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...
"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...
Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of the big star in our solar system.
1298 – An army under Albert of Austria defeated and killed Adolf of Nassua near Worms, Germany. 1625 – The Spanish army took Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege. 1644 – Lord Cromwell crushed ...
We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...
“A coolcation is one of the newer post-COVID travel trends — people seeking out cooler-climate vacation spots, especially ...