In 1999, a full-scale replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer was mounted in NASA's 40x80 foot wind tunnel for tests to build an historically accurate aerodynamic database.
In 1963 scientists discovered industrial air pollution was acidifying water that rained down from the sky, killing ecosystems of streams. Fifty years later, there's less acid rain. But rivers aren't neutral, they're alkaline.
Determination, effort and hard work are highly linked with achievement, but a new study finds that people may have an unconscious preference for achievement that results from natural endowment.
Determination, effort and hard work are highly linked with achievement, but a new study finds that people may have an unconscious preference for achievement that results from natural endowment.
Language is known to be part of humans' unique cognitive endowment, and scientists have long studied how language abilities can be impaired by disease or trauma. But it is less clear what upper limits this endowment has.
The writer, 'N', described how his grandfather, who was Sicilian and had never gone to school, could learn languages with such remarkable ease that by the end of his life he could speak 70, and read and write 56.
Derek Jeter, one of baseball's all-time greats, hit a walk-off single in the 9th inning to win his final game at Yankee Stadium -- a truly magical ending to an incredible 20-year career with the New York Yankees.