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...joined a team of international researchers led by Dahl-Jensen at the NEEM camp in Greenland. NEEM stands for North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (the acronym is Danish, as are the leaders of the project), and the scientists are digging deep into the Greenland ice--more than a mile and a half deep to be precise--to try to understand its pedigree. Depth is time, and the lower you go, the further back in history you travel. As ice formed in Greenland, year after cold year, bits of atmosphere were trapped in the layers. Drilling into the ice and fishing...
...across the globe rejoiced earlier this month at the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider—the gargantuan accelerator of sub-atomic particles meant to signal the dawning of a new age in high-energy physics—had successfully passed a beam of protons through its 17-mile tunnel...
...down the comb while wiggling her butt and buzzing. The angle she runs ... corresponds to the angle from the sun of the path that will lead directly to the orange tree. The duration of the waggle dance tells other bees how far to go - loosely, three quarters of a mile per second of waggling...
...These 213 low-income units currently stand next to Harvard’s soccer field, squarely in the middle of its new Allston campus. Last year Harvard secretly acquired the Charlesview land in exchange for land and financing to rebuild the complex a quarter-mile down Western Ave. Though the deal was made with the Charlesview’s board, without tenant representation to speak of, and with no notice to or consultation with the surrounding community, it could do some real good: The present Charlesview structures are dilapidated, and its enclave-like design isolates it from the rest...
...their proposals, which often asked for permission to create—and then dismantle—large structures on private property. “Running Fence,” one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earlier projects, featured an 18-foot-high curtained fence running 24 miles through northern California. To obtain permission for the project, the artists negotiated contracts with 59 cattle ranchers. “I remember I made a few boo-boos the first few days,” Jeanne-Claude said in a clip from a documentary that was shown at the event...