All sorts of rare and unusual artefacts in Yale’s collection are being photographed/digitised for the web, so everyone around the world can check out a handwritten Mozart sonata or William Blake watercolour, even if they don’t actually attend Yale.
It’s been a big year for the space sciences. The first privately-held spacecraft orbited our world, the blackest material in history was created, researchers expanded the list of possible sources of life threefold; and that was just in December.
