The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive
For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that breaks the very foundation of modern physics. But in the eyes of an engineering undergrad at the University of Alabama in Huntsville named Joseph Agnew, it’s a theory worthy of study. The idea first came to Agnew…
Physics & Chemistry
Rahul Rao
Mass Grave of Elephant-Sized Sloths Poses Murky Mystery
Death might have taken weeks; it might have been days. But when it struck, it struck ruthlessly. Some 20,000 years later, the fossils of these enormous creatures would be found by chance. Many of the bones were disarticulated and had the type of gouges paleontologists would interpret as traces of trampling by other creatures after…
Biology
Jeanne Timmons