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Our Astronomical Column - Nature
Nature· 17 hours ago(position angle 45°), reaches its greatest phase (0.938 of the diameter, the south limb being uneclipsed) at 10h. 54m., and ends at 12h. 34m. (position angle 283°). As there is not another large ...
The Highest Inhabited House - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoIt would be an easy matter for the inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau to become acclimatised to that altitude, living, as they do, at a height of between 15,000 and 16,000 ...
Cotton Growing Research - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoThe Government is anxious to extend cotton growing on the Lilongwe Plateau. The Corporation's staff has pointed out, however, that the Plateau is at about the limit of altitude</ ...
The Collection of Meteoric Dust—A Suggestion - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoBy this means we should have the great advantage of not only making the experiments abroad, but the observations might also be made from some hill-top in the north of Scotland, sufficiently ...
Our Astronomical Column - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoAURORA BOREALIS.—Mr. Denning writes that though the moon was nearly full on the evening of January 4 there was 3 brilliant occurrence of aurora observed from widely distant stations. The Rev ...
A Solar Halo Phenomenon - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoA PHENOMENON which I have not seen described before occurred in a part of the horizontal ring of a solar halo on August 9, 1944. It consisted of dark bands moving like waves through the very ...
Science in the Magazines - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoSCIENCE makes a good show in the March magazines. Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., contributes to the Fortnightly an article on “The Significance of Carbon in the Universe.” The object of the article ...
German Commercial Airship Plans - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoThe German operating base will be changed from Friedrichshafen to Frankfort, which is not only more convenient for commercial traffic but is also at a lower altitude. The ...
Aurora - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoIt extended from west-north-west to north-north-east, and had a general altitude of 30°, though occasional streamers reached beyond Polaris. It was moderately bright, but certainly not brilliant, and showed no colour.
Theory of Cyclones and Anticyclones - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoAn outline theory of the structure of cyclones and anticyclones was described in the report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau for 1898–1899 (vol. ii). It was evident, however, that a more complete ...
