Stretching the Boundaries

Recently I have read a very interesting paper entitled "The magic dodecahedron of Gauls, that saved Roman legions: Mirror of Universe  ...

About me. One of my researches is on dispersions of phonons. Quite interesting are the new auxetic materials, providind phononic band-gaps...

Ale's Stones (or Ales stenar) is a megalithic monument in Kaseberga,  southern Sweden. It is a boat of stones,  67 meters long formed. T...

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,...