The original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence’s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto’s faded paintings, discovering lush details and tridimensional scenes that have been hidden ...
The original Giotto painting (L) and the same artwork under ultra-violet rays (R). Art restorers working in Florence’s Santa Croce church have shed new (ultraviolet) light on Giotto’s faded paintings, discovering lush details and tridimensional scenes that have been hidden ...
With disasters striking Haiti, Chile and most recently Turkey, it seems like there is no end in sight for the earthquake-weary. New evidence released from Ohio State University (OSU) shows that the 8.8-magnitude mega-quake that struck off the coast of ...
Since the magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile last weekend, folks in the media have been talking a lot about how the Pacific Northwest could have a similar disaster. I'd like to join in this chorus as a sort of public ...
If you came across a plant in the wilds of India that trapped and ate insects by dissolving them in a broth of treacly nectar and bacteria, your first reaction probably would not be to drink it. But some locals ...
You never know what you're going to see on your way to work, but nobody expects a scene from "Jumanji." Commuters in Atlanta late Thursday afternoon must have done a double-take when a zebra trotted by their cars on a ...
Contests like the X Prize use the power of prize to throw the doors open on a problem to get all of us, or some among all of us, to go to work on a solution. (The secrets of crafting ...
Ultra-Micro Urban Architectural Wind. A clumsy name for really small wind power; smaller even than the residential turbines sometimes pressed into service in the urban environment (because wind makes so much sense in these places, even if the technology doesn't ...
Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean grew by an average of 13,000 square miles a day last month. Great news, right? Well, not so much. For one thing, it was January. Mid-winter. Sea ice cover is supposed to grow. ...
I remember well the first time I set foot on Antarctica. It was, amazing as it seems to me, almost exactly 17 years ago: February 11, 1993. I was co-leader of a Greenpeace expedition to find Japanese whaling ships in ...
