Scientists change how El Nino is labeled to keep up with spike in temperature

El Nino warps weather worldwide. Meteorologists say the natural El Nino cycle is both adding to and feeling the heat of a ...
Embla Wigum on MSN

Capricorn becomes Nike goddess of victory makeup transformation

Watch as Capricorn transforms into Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, with this powerful makeup transition! #ZodiacSigns #GreekGoddesses #Capricorn #Nike #MakeupTransformation ...
Greek Reporter

George Papanicolaou: The Greek Physician Who Saved Countless Lives

Celebrating the legacy of George Papanicolaou, the Greek pioneer in cancer detection, who invented the "Pap smear." ...

Even the best writing about science recalls ancient myths

The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.
Greek Reporter

The Greek Myth That Gave the Milky Way Its Name

The Milky Way owes its iconic name not to modern astrophysics but to an Ancient Greek myth involving Zeus, Hera, and a splash of divine milk.
Greek City Times

Greek Oceanographers Make Historic Antarctic Dive

Two Greek oceanographers carried out the first scientific dive launched from Bulgaria’s St Kliment Ohridski Antarctic base on ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Medieval monks hid a lost star map and scientists are decoding it now

In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.
Interesting Engineering

‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text

Scientists used a particle accelerator to uncover centuries-old star observations by Hipparchus.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Ancient Greek astronomers made important ...
Greek City Times

Lost Ancient Greek Star Map Decoded by Particle Accelerator

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, using powerful synchrotron radiation produced by a particle accelerator ...
Science News

A Greek star catalog from the dawn of astronomy, revealed

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a computer screen. The squiggles are a poem written in ancient Greek about heavenly phenomena, seen ...