Where's Santa? Follow his route on the NORAD tracker as he travels around the world
NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, to track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, Mountain Standard ...
Artnet5h
The Math—and Mystery—Behind an Ancient Counting Device
The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.
Aviation Week1d
Data: The Longest (And Shortest) Routes In The World
At the other end of the scale, Scottish carrier Loganair’s 1.7-mi. (1.5-nm) domestic flight between Westray and Papa Westray ...
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'Mathematically perfect' star system discovered 105 light-years from Earth may still be in its infancy. Could that change its prospects for life?
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...
Mongabay1d
A universal tagging system for pangolins, world’s most trafficked mammal
Pangolins have the dubious distinction of being the most trafficked mammals in the world. Yet as often as they wind up in ...
Interesting Engineering3d
Earth’s magnetic North Pole is heading to Russia, what it will do to your GPS?
Earth's magnetic north pole is shifting, forcing an update to the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which is used by navigation ...
Maps: See Israel’s Moves in Syria Since al-Assad Was Toppled
Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military ...
Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...
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Geopolitics and the World Trading System
Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries ...