Month: December 2022

With the world population topping eight billion for the first time, “Santa is flying faster than ever; we estimate he’s traveling over Mach 7 this year”—seven times the speed of sound, more than a mile […]

In 1911, a meridian circle manufactured by A. Repsold & Söhne in Hamburg, Germany, was installed at the National Astronomical Observatory of Chile under the watch of Friedrich W. Ristenpart, a German astronomer and the […]

In recent years, Norwegian researchers have increasingly published their research in open access journals. Some go one step further and share their data.This article is brought to you by this site.

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.This article is brought to you by this site.

A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundreds” of new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life, the agency’s leadership told reporters Friday.This article […]

In Boston, there are reports of people pronouncing the letter “r.” Down in Tennessee, people are noticing a lack of a Southern drawl. And Texans have long worried about losing their distinctive twang.This article is […]

University of Queensland scientists have developed a model that gives soccer players their best chance of kicking a penalty goal.This article is brought to you by this site.

It was a good year for research of all kinds as three men shared the Nobel Prize in physics for their work that showed that tiny particles separated from one another at great distances can […]

The pandemic prompted workplace changes that proved beneficial to people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM), but there’s fear that these accommodations will be rolled back. With International Day of Persons […]

If you’ve ever had trouble solving a Rubik’s Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It’s worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it.This article […]