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Ligeia Mare Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as...
View ArticleA Long Wait
The word 'unnatural' is often used to describe what's considered weird or unusual. But is anything weirder than nature? Biology abounds with creatures that change shape, change sex, change locations...
View ArticleRedeeming the King
Redeeming the King As seen by the curvature of his spine, Richard III suffered from severe scoliosis. In medieval times, physical deformity was considered a sign of spiritual deformity, which may...
View ArticleCause of Death
Cause of Death Though Richard III's skeleton showed that he died covered in wounds, two in particular were likely fatal: blows from a sword and perhaps a halbard that left yawning holes in the base of...
View ArticleAn Ignoble End
For two short years he was King of England, one of the most powerful men in the world. Then he was killed, desecrated, and dumped in a hastily dug grave, the location of which would be forgotten and...
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Lost to History
Lost to History Small and poor, the Greyfriars monastery was abandoned a half-century after Richard III's burial and subsequently demolished. In the 17th century, a former mayor of Leicester built a...
View ArticleA Royal Diet
A Royal Diet Chemical tests of the bones showed that Richard III ate a high-protein diet rich in fresh seafood -- fare that only the 15th century's royalty could have enjoyed. Richard III might not...
View ArticleAn Ignominious Grave
An Ignominious Grave Richard III's humiliations didn't end with his body's desecration. Even his grave shows signs of disrespect. It appears to have been hastily dug, its dimensions too small for his...
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Close-Up With Halley's Comet In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as...
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Supermassive Black Hole Jets This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data...
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Beautiful Ring Nebula In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to...
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Colorful Crater Minerals This image covers a well-preserved (relatively young) impact crater about 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. The enhanced-color sample shows that the north-facing slope (on the south...
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Giant Space Jellyfish This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. HFG1 is a planetary nebula in the...
View ArticleGazelligator
Gazelligator Scary fast. Lewis Wallace. Illustration: Lucy Conklin [Portfolio]
View ArticleMolecular Rearrangements
A ringed, carbon-containing molecule, shown both before and after it has rearranged itself, with the two most common reaction products included. The scale bars measure 3 angstroms, or three...
View ArticleProduct 2
Product 2 is one of the two most common molecules produced. Image: S. Wickenburg, A. Riss, D. J. Mowbray, F. R. Fischer
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