Enlarge / Gentoo penguins are the world's fastest swimming birds, thanks to the unique shape and structure of their wings.Priya Venkatesh/CC BY-SA 3.0 ...
Enlarge / Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) may have observed a never-before-seen way to destroy a star.Int'l Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani ...
Enlarge / Cosmic rays showering down on Earth's atmosphere are the basis of a new wireless alternative system to GPS navigation.2015 Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka...
Enlarge / Scholar: The 15th century "Heege manuscript" could be a rare written record of a live minstrel performance.YouTube/University of Cambridge One...
EnlargeFarrar, Straus and Giroux In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis...
Enlarge / Hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives in 1876, probably the most widely distributed illustration of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment. Franklin is...
