Alaska's Senators Meet with Air Force Chief of Staff Nominee General Welsh
Both of Alaska's Senators to Washington met with General Mark Welsh III yesterday.
El Zotz Masks Yield Insights into Maya Beliefs
A team of archaeologists led by Stephen Houston has made a new discovery at the Maya archaeological site in El Zotz, Guatemala, uncovering a pyramid believed to celebrate the Maya sun god. The structure's outer walls depict the god in an unprecedented set of images done in painted stucco. In 2010, the team uncovered a […]
UCF Discovers Exoplanet Neighbor — University's First Planet
The University of Central Florida has detected what could be its first planet, only two-thirds the size of Earth and located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33 light- years away.
The Electric Atmosphere: Plasma Is Next NASA Science Target
Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially different from, well, almost everywhere else.