OSIRIS-REx – Asteroid Hunter

from The Christian Science Monitor  NASA greenlights OSIRIS-REx for asteroid hunt On September 8, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu to collect samples to send back to Earth. The asteroid may provide hints about the formation of planets...

Watching Pitch Drip

from Atlas Obscura The Pitch Drop Experiment Begun 82 years ago, this science experiment keeps on going, ever so slowly.  University of Queensland Physics Museum Begun in 1927 by Professor Thomas Parnell, this experiment was meant to reveal the surprising properties...

Michelangelo Pranks The Pope

from International Business Times Michelangelo secretly painted symbols of female anatomy on Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo may have hidden symbols as dissection of human body was banned by Catholic Church. By Hannah Osborne Close-up of the ram skull with female...

Dissected Graces

from Nautilus The Brief, Mystical Reign of the Wax Cadaver Early medical models of human anatomy shrouded death in feminine beauty. BY JOANNA EBENSTEIN Image courtesy of Museo Della Specola, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images Toward the end of the 18th century, in a...