For more than 120 years the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex—an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data—has been of great interest to scholars around the world. The accuracy of its observations, especially the ...
Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2016
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Google has made it tougher for people to hide behind excuses when it comes to finding time to hit the gym or learn new languages.
Software
Apr 14, 2016
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The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol - a manifestation of Horus, a god and a king. This calendar ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2015
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One of the surest signs that late summer is here in the northern hemisphere is the arrival of the Milky Way in the early evening sky. As darkness falls ever earlier each night, the star-dappled plane of our home galaxy sits ...
Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2015
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The Muslim holy month of Ramandan unites the Islamic world in a devotional act of fasting from sunrise to sunset—but in Senegal its approach brings divisive arguments over the moon.
Other
Jun 19, 2015
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Is Microsoft's Surface a tablet or a laptop? I'm not quite sure, but it is a lot easier to type on than an iPad.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 24, 2013
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Archeologists have discovered a lunar calendar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that is nearly ten thousand years old. Their findings show that the calendar makers (1) thought about time and (2) figured out a means to follow it ...
(Phys.org) —The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an international team ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2013
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NASA is so sure the world won't come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, they have already released this news item for the day after.
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2012
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Don't feel compelled to mark every item off your bucket list just yet.
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2012
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