October 30, 2012
On Firmament Ground: Partially Completed ALMA Radio Telescope Already Generating Discoveries
The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array in the Chilean Andes is the most powerful—and expensive—ground-based observatory yet
Stories by Katie Worth
Katie Worth is a freelance writer in Boston. She is author of Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports, 2021).
EnvironmentJune 15, 2012
New Dating of Panama Formation Throws Cold Water on Ice Age Origin Ideas
A geologist's revisionist theory pushing the formation of the Isthmus of Panama back 10 million years casts doubt on mainstream ideas of what caused the last ice age as well as the global glaciation cycle that generates the world's current climate