Physics

EDITORIAL

Divide something in two. Then do it again. If you keep going, what do you end up with? When you get to the bottom, what is everything made of?

PEOPLE

Mileva Marić was best known as Albert Einstein’s first wife, but she was a talented physicist in her own right. Her possible contributions to Einstein's great theories is still one of the great mysteries of science.

PEOPLE

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...

PLACES

Yellowstone National Park is actually a super volcano, and it threatens the existence of life on Earth.

EDITORIAL

When a scholar examined the Odyssey and the Iliad, he noticed a glaring omission—he could find no mention of the color blue. Could the ancient Greeks even see it?

EDITORIAL

Why is the sky blue? Every child has looked up and asked the question. And like so many great questions asked by children, the answer is far from simple.



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