Stretching the Boundaries

Calendar Puzzles Deciphered in Ancient Statue, by Rossella Lorenzi on the Trundholm Sun Cariot and my proposal of a calendar http://news...

Ancient bronze disks, decorations and calendars, http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2512 , by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Department of Applied ...

"Engineers have designed a device that harvests energy from the reverberation of heartbeats through the chest and converts it to electr...

"Why is the ocean blue? Speculation about the blue color of the ocean, as seen from above, goes way back. Lord Rayleigh claimed it was ...

Microlensing suggests that our galaxy has more planets than stars, buBertram M. Schwarzschild March 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.14...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies "Of the material sold during the 1936 Sotheby's auction, sever...

I read today that Sir Isaac Newton was a "Master of the Mint." It is quite interesting this activity of the great scientist. But,...

"Super-strong, highly conducting graphene is the hottest ticket in physics, but new computer simulations suggest that materials called ...

"Uturuncu, or Uturunku, the highest summit in southwestern Bolivia , is a stratovolcano . ...Researchers have determined that a large, ...

February 24, 20:00, Turin Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Jupiter (and Coolpix)