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The first farmers of Europe didn’t leave anything to chance. When they migrated west from the Near East, beginning about 10,000 years ago, they brought everything they needed: crop seeds, domesticated animals, pottery and agriculture tools.
And, oh yes, man’s best friend.
In a study published Tuesday in Biology Letters, a journal published by the Royal Society, a team of international researchers says that dogs accompanied Near Eastern farmers ...read more
The new shape of Kīlauea’s summit area, where the caldera floor collapsed over the course of the summer. USGS/HVO.
A few weeks back I wrote about how much the lower East Rift Zone of Hawaii’s Kīlauea had been changed by this summer’s eruption. Over half a cubic kilometer of lava came pouring out of the multitude of fissures that opening in Leilani Estates and the neighboring area and 850 acres were added to the Big Island from all those lava flows entering the ocean. ...read more
1. Chances are, you can thank a laser for helping you get through the day. The technology lets us do everything from scan groceries at the checkout to remove regretted tattoos.
2. The word laser, coined in 1957, is an acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” Since that -er ending makes a laser seem like a doer of ... something, it soon spawned the verb “to lase.”
3. Unlike the sun or a flashlight, which shines in a broad range of colors combi ...read more
Last March, it snowed. And snowed and snowed. It was so heavy that roofs around my town were caving in, trapping pets and trucks and leaving people homeless. My own roof had several feet piled on. One night, flakes perpetually pelting down, I couldn’t sleep. I listened for the creaks of soon-to-collapse timbers. I imagined the porch overhang ripping away from the kitchen. I stared into the dark.
Did I eventually haul myself out of bed to shovel the roof? No. My fear of falling from such a ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
