Researchers confirmed a long-standing theory that there was water ice on the moon, according to a pair of studies published in Nature Astronomy. While water on the moon has been suspected for several decades, and multiple lunar missions have gathered data that pointed to its presence, definitive proof had …
Read More »Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Hunefer’s Book of the Dead
Hunefer’s Judgement in the presence of Osiris, Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom, c.1275 B.C.E., papyrus, Thebes, Egypt (British Museum).
Read More »Physicists: Massless Electrons Acquire Mass in Presence of Strong Magnetic Field
For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass. A false-color high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image of the zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe5) with an inset selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, showing the layer normal along the b axis. …
Read More »