17 articles from SUNDAY 6.10.2019
Israel unveils remains of 5,000-year-old city
Israeli archaeologists on Sunday unveiled the remains of a 5,000-year-old city they said was among the biggest from its era in the region, including fortifications, a ritual temple and a cemetery. "We have here an immense urban construction, planned with streets that separate neighbourhoods and public spaces," Yitzhak Paz of the Israel Antiquities Authority told AFP at the site near the...
Starwatch: Algol gives us a chance to marvel at a variable star
Once associated with Medusa’s head, this is one of few stars the naked eye can see changing brightnessThis week offers northern hemisphere observers a good opportunity to see a variable star in action. Algol is located in the constellation of Perseus and is one of only a few stars that can be seen to change brightness with the naked eye. This extraordinary characteristic led our ancestors to...
Milky Way's centre exploded 3.5 million years ago
A cataclysmic energy flare started near the massive black hole in our galaxy, a new research says.
69 days of paddling: this is what Alaska to Vancouver Island looks like by kayak
Some days were so monotonously gruelling that kayaker Owen Enright would count from zero to 5,000 over and over again in a silent cycle, just to pass the time and take his mind off what his body was...
Protesters arrested in Halifax and Toronto as climate action hits major Canadian cities
Protesters were arrested in Halifax and Toronto, and fist fights reportedly broke out in Edmonton Monday morning as climate change activists blockaded several major commuter bridges in Canadian cities. The demonstrations are part of efforts by Extinction Rebellion...
Astronauts replacing old batteries in 1st of 5 spacewalks
Astronauts kicked off the first of five spacewalks to replace old batteries at the International Space Station on Sunday.
Controversy stalks Nobel Peace, Literature prizes
Controversy stalks the Nobel prizes for peace and literature in a way it rarely does for science.
Israeli archaeologists claim to discover ancient city
Israel's Antiquities Authority on Sunday said that researchers have discovered the remains of a large, 5,000-year-old city that sheds new light on experts' understanding of the period.
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded
A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both poles of the Galaxy and out into deep space.
How to think clearly in beleaguered times | Letters
Rorie Fulton on combating unwitting support for populists, and Richard Bryden on civic spaces that facilitate ‘reasoned conversation’George Monbiot makes a telling link between individuals’ affective state and the unwitting support we lend to demagogues (Journal, 3 October). In their fascinating book The Boy who was Raised as a Dog, Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz develop this notion of...