The green colour of Earth's forests is not accidental. Plants contain chlorophyll, a pigment that absorbs red and blue wavelengths of sunlight while reflecting green light. This process allows plants ...

There is exactly one joke in Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce: when the lights come on, the characters are in the dark. Everything else — the borrowed furniture, the hapless sculptor, the stern colonel, the ...

It doesn’t matter if you’re a collector, military personnel or just an average Joe. G-Shock means tough. How else would you describe a watch that can withstand a drop from a tall building or direct ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eerie red auroras with spikes of carbon-14 trapped in ...

Playwright Peter Shaffer’s work is having something of a moment: Equus is currently enjoying a successful revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and an exciting new version of Amadeus is coming to ...

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For generations, artists and science-fiction writers have imagined alien landscapes beneath twin sunsets. The image became iconic in popular culture long before astronomers confirmed that planets ...

Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or Jubilee Day, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday traces its origins to June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in ...