How do you know when spring has begun? Is it the appearance of the first tiny leaves on the trees, or the first crocus plants peeping through the snow? The First Leaf and First Bloom Indices are synthetic measures of … Read more
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On July 15, 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 probe flew within 6,118 miles of the surface of Mars, capturing images as it passed over the planet. The image data was transmitted back to scientists on Earth, but they didn’t have a … Read more
The image is actually of the limb, or edge, of the planet. The dark brown at the bottom is space, the light area is the planet, and the orange in between are clouds above the surface. And even though it seems … Read more
Geely wants a part of Daimler. After a public rejection in November the Chinese company is now buying Daimler stock on the open market. The Germans better watch out because Geely founder Li Shufu wants Daimler really bad, especially the … Read more
The exoplanet WASP-39b (artist’s impression) is similar in composition to Saturn.Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced the most detailed information ever on an exoplanet, making it the world we know most about after the … Read more
by Eric Harshbarger Available in the U.S. from The Dice Shop at MathArtFun and in the U.K. from Maths Gear! Abstract “Go First Dice” are a set of dice that allows some number of players to each roll a different … Read more
Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of … Read more
Car companies are only required to test vehicle safety using crash dummies modeled after men. fStop Images – Caspar Benson via Getty Images Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent … Read more