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Oct. 31 is a date when more people are outside under a dark sky than almost any other day. Costumed trick-or-treaters will be wandering the…


Soviet space programs

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was a no-holds-barred race between the USSR and the United States in an effort to be the…


The death of a great mathematician

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the French-American mathematician, described as the founding father of fractal geometry, lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on Oct. 16. In the…


Zoological Investigations

The woolly flying squirrel, Eupetaurus cinereus, is the largest known squirrel alive today. This massive sciurid, as the scientific family containing squirrels is known, measures…