This became known as the Betz sphere or the Betz orb. Terry Betz, Antoine and Jerri's 21-year-old son, went to pick up the sphere. Although it was only 8-inches in diameter, it was extremely heavy.

In the 1980s a group of Soviet computer programmers were commissioned to produce a model of a Third World War. They were disbanded for demanding access to the secret statistics of death and survival ...

At last things are looking up a bit for D H Lawrence. Four decades after the Second Wave feminist critique brought his reputation crashing down from its dizzy 1960s heights, today’s students come to ...

Sky watchers may have a difficult time spotting the entire parade — all seven other planets in our solar system besides our own — without optical aid, said Ed Krupp, director of Griffith ...

The Department of Modern Languages mourns the loss of Maureen Weissenrieder, Professor Emerita of Spanish, who passed away unexpectedly in December. Maureen touched our lives in many ways with her ...

scientific director of Microsoft Quantum Lab West Lafayette and the Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, professor of materials engineering, and professor of ...

Liang Wu, named a Sloan Fellow for his contributions to the field of physics, is an experimental condensed matter physicist and Physics and Astronomy professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a vital role in tracking an asteroid that was initially posed as a risk to earth. UH astronomers are now saying asteroid ...

Catherine S. Ramírez, a UC Santa Cruz professor and chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, was one of 15 thought leaders selected from top universities across the country to become ...

Michael J. Holland is a professor emeritus in the UC Davis School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine.