Category : science

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

The Planet That Took Us Beyond the Solar System

Updated on April 16 at 4:19 p.m. ET For millennia, the only planets we knew of were the ones in our own solar system. That changed in October 1995, when a pair of Swiss astrophysicists discovered a planet orbiting a sun-like star about 50 light-years...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Boy unearths legendary Danish king's trove in Germany

A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have unearthed a "significant" treasure trove in Germany which may have belonged to the legendary Danish king Harald Bluetooth who brought Christianity to Denmark. Rene Schoen and his student Luca Malas...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Catching up with the quantum-thermo crowd

You have four hours to tour Oxford University. What will you visit? The Ashmolean Museum, home to da Vinci drawings, samurai armor, and Egyptian mummies? The Bodleian, one of Europe’s oldest libraries? Turf Tavern, where former president Bill Clinton...