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It’s always Chile in Norway?…
When it comes to a country’s prospects, is morphology destiny? Or is it simply the phrenology of geography? Strange Maps explores… Do Norwegians feel curiously at home in Chile, and vice versa? Do...
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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of...
Newton’s reflecting telescope of 1671 On 11 January 1672, the Fellows of the British Royal Society were treated to a demonstration of Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope, which formed images with...
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“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons”*…
The closest astronomers have come to directly “seeing” a black hole happened last year, when the LIGO observatory detected the spacetime-warping gravitational waves radiating from a pair of black...
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“Time and tide wait for no man”*…
The week both arranges and imposes on our time… Among many collective discoveries during the pandemic confinement of 2020, Americans learned just how attached we are to our seven weekdays. As...
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“Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark, total eclipse...
Today is the occasion of an annular eclipse, which will pass through eight U.S. states before crossing the Gulf of Mexico and to transit Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,...
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