Share this on WhatsApp The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to lives and economies around the world. But efforts to curb the spread of the virus might mean that the planet itself is moving a little less. Researchers who study Earth’s movement are reporting a drop in seismic noise—the hum of vibrations in the planet’s […]
Share this on WhatsApp Spacecraft made of carbon-foam bubbles could zoom from Earth to Alpha Centauri in 185 years, driven solely by the power of the sun, a new study finds. A swarm of these probes might help discover and study our solar system’s mysterious Planet Nine, if this hypothesized world exists, scientists added. Conventional rockets driven by […]
Share this on WhatsApp Originally published in January 1860 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “The celebrated African traveler Dr. Livingstone relates by letter: ‘The luxuriant valley of the Shire River is marshy and abounding in lagoons, in which grow great quantities of the lotus plant. The people were busy collecting the tubers, which when boiled or […]
