2015

Astronomers have found what may be considered a piece of a galactic skeleton; a dark structure of gas and dust that might provide a backbone on which one of the spiral arms extend from the central bar of the Milky Way galaxy. Read More: https://www...

In a Science Center lecture hall at Harvard, anthropologist Rowan Flad heats a hot metal poker and touches it to a goat scapula. The ancient Chinese, he explains, used a ritual similar to this as a means of divination. As early as 4000 B.C., they...