Richard A. Lovett in San Francisco
for National Geographic News
December 24, 2009
Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core, new research says.
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s [...]
The mysterious chancel ceiling at St. John’s Anglican Church in Lunenburg, N.S., was reconstructed in 2004 after a fire three years earlier. While locals now know what the star pattern represents, they don’t know who originally designed it, or how. (CBC)
Parishioners at one of Canada’s oldest Anglican churches will be puzzled by an enduring [...]
PIERRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie
Nativity
We’ve challenged you before—in November 2007, December 2008, and May 2009—to unravel a code and reveal its secret message like the “cryptanalysts” in our FBI Laboratory.
In our latest quiz, we’ve switched gears a bit, using pictogram symbols based on Native American motifs. And with more than 50 words to decipher, it’s our longest one so far.
For the first [...]
December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that [...]
December 20, 2009 by Alexander Osipovich
The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all — a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation.
Now, if the scientists at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy have their way, one of these furry apes could someday be [...]
Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash
Credit & Copyright: Bjørnar G. Hansen,
Explanation: Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, haunted skies over the island of Kvaløya, near Tromsø Norway on December 13. This 30 second long exposure records their shimmering glow gently lighting the wintery coastal scene. A study in contrasts, [...]
Louisiana really seems to take the term “Big Easy” to hear as it clocks in as the happiest state in America, while New York is the least happiest or saddest.
The list that measures the Happiness level states in America was the result of work done by researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK and [...]
A strange flying object was spotted in the sky above Moscow today, December 18. Muscovites could see a large triangle-shaped object hovering above Red Square. Many people filmed the object on their cell phones and uploaded the videos on YouTube.
The videos stirred quite a controversy in Western media outlets, which concluded that the triangle above [...]
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By Aliya Sternstein 12/11/2009
The release of the open government directive could change intelligence agencies’ policies that deny Internet access to nonclassified data that is currently available only in hard copy or only to government personnel, say some Washington transparency advocates.
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