A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
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What's Pi Day all about? Math, science, pies and more
Simply put, pi is a mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It figures ...
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The Man Who Helped Predict Black Holes, Both Real and Hypothetical
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...
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A giant extraterrestrial 'wave' hit Earth 14 million years ago — and may have dramatically altered our planet's climate
Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...