DA VINCI’S IMPOSSIBLE “TOKAMAK DRAWING”. The exploration of the now-digitized Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks continues to amaze the worldwide scientific community. A few weeks ago, engineers at the California...
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December 23, 2020. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the lower Amazon River in Brazil. The 190-kilometer (120-mile) span of river pictured here is...
December 16, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of Laguna Ojo de Liebre while in orbit over the Baja Peninsula on December 16, 2022. Located...
March 16, 2022. Two successive atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023, bearing rain, snow, and strong winds. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power as the storm toppled trees, unleashed...
December 25, 2022. The town of Mountain Pass, California, is home to the largest rare-earth element mine in the U.S. Its story began in the 1940s, when prospectors went...
March 10, 2023. Doctors and public health experts agree that breathing fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can be harmful to human health. The airborne particles—thirty times smaller than the width of human...
February 21, 2023. In February 2023, sea ice around Antarctica reached the lowest extent ever observed since the start of the satellite record in 1979. But despite several recent years of...