Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd at noon Pacific for the Precision Optics Hack Chat with Jeroen Vleggaar! We sometimes take for granted one of the foundational elements of our technological world: ...

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. One ...

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted. Huygens is known, in part, for discovering Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and deducing the ...

NEARLY ten years have elapsed since we reviewed the twelfth volume of this great work (NATURE, vol. lxxxiv., p. 491), of which vol. xiii., consisting of two parts of altogether nearly 1100 pages, only ...