Physics

Just days after a 4.9 Richter earthquake caused rockslides and some damage to buildings on Lesvos on Saturday, the eastern Aegean island was hit by a new tremor of a similar magnitude on Tuesday morning.

The grass is unusually green this winter and snowdrops and primroses were in bloom as early as December. Bees have been enticed out of hives and storks failed to make their journey south. The unseasonably warm weather is causing confusion everywhere.

As Turkish State Meteorological Service announces that last December was the warmest one experienced in the past 52 years, Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum calls on citizens to "do their bit."

The ground shaking was recorded for about 4 hours with the epicenter about 15 kilometers southwest of Valpovo.
According to the data of the Seismological Service of Croatia, the magnitude of the earthquake was 3.0 on the Richter scale, and the intensity at the epicenter was estimated at III-IV of the EMS scale. Some citizens of Valpovo were awakened by the earthquake.

Even more impressive is the fact this new speed record was set using a single light source and a single optical chip!

The Israeli government decided on Oct. 23 to allocate millions of dollars for a museum to house the world's largest collection of Albert Einstein documents, the Hebrew University said.

It will be built on the university's Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem, with the government committing to approximately $6 million and the university raising another $12 million.

A new study shows that extreme black holes could break the famous “no-hair” theorem, and in a way that we could detect

She discovered she was moving quicker than her light beams…

One of the biggest mysteries in quantum mechanics is whether physical reality exists independent of its observer

It releases tremendous amounts of energy in the process, which is the process that powers stars like the Sun