A version of this article first appeared on NOVA's Web site Everest. Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is likely that no climber ...
Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Xianlong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully synthesized high-energy-density materials cubic ...
Pluto's atmosphere is disappearing as the dwarf planet moves further away from the sun, a new study has revealed. Pluto takes 248 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the Sun, and its distance ...