Saturday, September 29, 2018

Skirt-Wearing, Selfie-Attracting Guard Unit of Greek Soldiers Turns 150

The Evzones of Greece turned 150 this year and while they are now ceremonial, when founded in 1868, in the early years of the modern Greek state, they were a crack light infantry.

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NASA Solves Black Hole Jet X-ray Mystery with IXPE’s Polarization Powers

NASA’s IXPE satellite may have solved a longstanding astrophysical mystery: how are X-rays produced in the extreme jets of supermassive blac...