What it is: A marble statuette Where it is from: Alexandria, Egypt When it was made: Sometime between 332 and 150 B.C., during the Ptolemaic period Related: 2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman What it tells us about the past: This marble […]
The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription 24,99 € / 30 days cancel any time Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access […]
Researchers have found evidence of a hallucinogenic ritual that may have helped ancient Egyptians reenact a mythical story in which a dwarf god tricks the sky goddess. In a paper published Nov. 13 in the journal Scientific Reportsthe team reports finding the remains of a concoction that may have induced hallucinations in those who drank […]
Brandt, M. et al. Improved dynamical masses for six brown dwarf companions using Hipparcos and Gaia EDR3. Astron. J. 162, 301 (2021). ADS Google Scholar Cheetham, A. et al. Direct imaging of an ultracool substellar companion to the exoplanet host star HD 4113 A. Astron. Astrophys. 680, A64 (2018). Google Scholar Li, Y. et al. […]
