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Weaving was partly a religious ritual, accompanied by solemn chants. "Spider Woman instructed the Navajo women how to weave on a loom that Spider Man told them how to make," according to a Navajo legend. "The crosspoles were made of sky and earth cords, the warp sticks of sun rays...
Plunging directly into the massive dark thunderheads high above northeastern Colorado, the World War II-vintage B-26 released its payload: a swarm of tiny, aluminum-coated strands of fiber glass. The strange-and dangerous-flight was part of science's latest attempt to tame one of nature'...
Lightning strikes somewhere on the earth roughly 100 times every second. It is a greater killer, on the average, than hurricanes or tornadoes, causing hundreds of deaths each year in the U.S. alone, and sets off the majority of forest fires. The ancients believed that lightning bolts were hurled from...
> Some two months ago the steeple of the red-brick Hobbs Street Church of Christ in Athens, Ala. (pop. 14,000), was sliced in two by a bolt of lightning. This may have been prophetic, for now the Hobbs Street congregation is split just as surely, and all because of...
Solar astronomers do not know why the formation of sunspots is cyclical, but the related eruptions usually seem to take place near the spots when there are many of them on the surface and the magnetic patterns have become more complex. Most likely, the eruptions are the result of the...