Prato della Valle in Padova Italy
Prato della Valle (Prà deła Vałe in Venetian) is a 90,000-square-meter elliptical square in Padova, Italy. It is the largest square in Italy,[1] and one of the largest in Europe. Today, the square is a large space with a green island at the center, l’Isola Memmia, surrounded by a small canal bordered by two rings […]
Drug Trafficking: China’s Role in Eliminating Opioids
With over one million Americans dead from the use of Chinese opioids since 1999, can the US trust China to crack down on drugs? In the late nineties, America created a large demand for hard drugs. The sheer volume of drugs traveling in and out of her coast made the United States a target for […]
Spiral Stars Found, Providing a Window into the Early Universe
Nature likes spirals — from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe. Now astronomers are bemused to find young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]