Prime Number Puzzle Has Stumped Mathematicians for More Than a Century
While I was looking for a gift for a child’s birthday, a math book fell…
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Total solar eclipse 2027: A complete guide to the ‘eclipse of the century’
The beauty of a total solar eclipse is that it happens at all, not how…
Bowhead whales still harmed from whaling that ended a century ago
Bowheads feel the impacts of commercial whaling 100 years laterDoc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling…
Increase in West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Inevitable in 21st Century
Increase in West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting Inevitable in 21st Century by Lily Roberts |January…
‘This century is special’: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the vast span of time
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist.Getty Images IN OUR everyday lives,…
Conservation in the 21st century means looking beyond the environment
To combat the biodiversity crisis, the Sierra Club supports establishing a national goal to conserve…
Hybrid puffins may have emerged in the 20th century due to warming
Atlantic puffins in Spitsbergen, Norway, are different from those found further southRich Reid/Alamy Two distinct…
Renewable energy boom may help us limit warming this century to 1.5 ̊C
Renewables are booming, keeping crucial climate targets in sightImage Source / Alamy Stock Photo The…
100-year floods could occur yearly by end of 21st century
Most coastal communities will encounter 100-year floods annually by the end of the century, even…
‘Monstrous births’ and the making of race in the nineteenth-century United States
From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, "monstrous births" -- malformed or anomalous fetuses --…