The previous essay showed that in the 1400s, Africa was not a “dark continent” but a continent of light — a leader in knowledge, trade, and culture. Cities like Timbuktu rivaled Oxford and Cambridge ...

We were suffering from Stage IV cabin fever, so I suggested a trip down to the new John Glenn open-air observatory, located somewhere in Hocking County and we are lucky to have found the place on the ...

They are the only two known timepieces to have two independent movements connected solely by a shared winding mechanism, ...

Charismatic Captain Jack Sparrow’s first love was the sea. The lovable anime rubberboy Monkey D Luffy set sail to find the ...

Columbus Day is on October 13 and we remember Christopher Columbus’ vision and perseverance as he explored new worlds. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Columbus was an explorer and navigator who made ...

People think they've found Martian images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on NASA's website. They might be right.

After a period of relative quiet on the surface of the sun, it is ramping up again in an era of high activity. It could ...

AUS-based startup, Reflect Orbital, has proposed a groundbreaking plan to provide “sunlight on demand” by using satellites to ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

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Your perfect day trip has been sitting on the South Carolina coast this whole time, masquerading as Myrtle Beach State Park, just three miles south of the main strip where sanity prevails and nature ...

Success Lake Recreation Area from last Friday until Sunday with the help of 15 Cadet staff and instructors and 10 Adult staff ...