The experiment showed that Bohr was definitely correct when he argued for complementarity, and that Einstein had got it wrong. The more atom-rustling that was measured, the weaker the diffraction ...

Twenty years ago, a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a billion mile trek to Saturn. The photos the probe ...

A YES, I AM STILL HERE peeking out my window on Main Street, and I want to recognize, first, that the war in Israel was started by a sneak attack by Hamas soldiers upon a peaceful Israeli rock concert ...

A total of 17 rocks orbiting the sun have been named after Dutch individuals. They now bear the names of astronomers such as ...

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft beamed back images of what appear to be hearts on the surface of a neighborly planet.

Scientists have found cell-like compartments called vesicles on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, which could form the precursors ...

On March 25, 1655, Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens (a name that you've probably heard mispronounced as "Hoy-gens"). Titan is the largest moon of Saturn ...

Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch astronomer, inventor, physicist and mathematician, discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on March 25, 1655. Nearly 350 years later, his namesake, the Huygens probe ...

When the probe — named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens who discovered that world — transmitted its first pictures, the painted moonscape clashed with the real ...

Ever since Titan was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, the moon has been shrouded in mystery — in part because it is literally shrouded in a thick atmosphere of ...

The Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 2024 was awarded to Jan Willem van Ittersum for his PhD dissertation in mathematics. Lucas Slot and Rosa Schwarz both received an honourable mention.

THIS treatise of about a hundred quarto pages, printed from a hitherto unpublished MS. of Huygens, forms part of the eleventh volume of the collected edition of his works which is now in progress ...