Majestic Mount Rainier skyrockets nearly 3 miles (14,410 feet) above sea level and towers above Seattle's increasing residential areas and Tacoma, Washington. Every year, practically two million site visitors involve Mount Rainier National forest to admire the volcano and its glaciers, alpine meadows, and forested ridges. However, the volcano's elegance is deceptive.U.S. Geological Study...
Comprehensive Tracking Gives Timely Cautions of Volcano RekindlingKeeping an eye on a volcano needs scientists to use a selection of techniques that can listen to and see activity inside a volcano. The USGS Volcano Hazards Program keeps track of volcanoes to find signs of change that forewarn volcanic reawakening. To comprehend a volcano's habits,...
Ilustration of Mansa Musa's caravan. Credit: SutoriAmazon founder Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest man on the planet, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released in March 2019. He is the richest man in contemporary history with a fortune of approximately $131bn (₤ 99bn). However, he is in no way the wealthiest man to...
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (center), wearing a Pickelhaube, inspects troops during World War. Credit: Library of CongressGermany's Pickelhaube helmet, distinguished by a sole spike jutting directly from its top, became a symbol of Prussian militarism in the early 20th century. At first look, the unusual spike seems to have served no rational function--...
Plans to measure the impact of historical research academia as if it were a science will undoubtedly mean fewer history books that delight the general reader.The kind of history books that delight most readers probably incorporate original research with elegant, easily accessible prose: possibly a book such as Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers or Lyndal...
Credit: European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthcareThe rise of laboratory science in the late 19th century placed a sharp focus on the moral value of medical innovation.'Modern medical science has offered us a choice where there was once none.' So stated John Simon at the International Medical Congress in London...
Around 19 million years back, something terrible took place for sharks.Fossils amassed from debris in the Pacific Sea reveal a previously unidentified and significant shark extinction event, during which the populations of the predators abruptly dropped by as much as 90 percent, researchers report in the June 4 Scientific research. And researchers do not...
What are we when we are no longer ourselves? Just how philosophy helped Kiran during the pandemicIn what seems like a private act at the witching hour, I light a candle and participate in a Zoom conference: Ideology at Midnight. I belong to a group of people who meet fortnightly to brood over the...
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. No question you have heard of these thinkers. When I started investigating my newest novel, Aphrodite's Tears, set in Greece and motivated by Ancient Greek mythology, it was no surprise that I discovered these names repeatedly. I was attracted to learn more about these males, for it struck me that...
Quantum materials present unique actions resulting from quantum auto mechanics, or how issue acts on the tiny scale of atoms and subatomic particles. The technologically relevant properties of quantum materials result from complicated interactions of electron charge, orbital, and rotation, and they're combined to the material's crystal framework. For instance, in some products, electrons...
