Before telescopes spotted Neptune, mathematicians used Newton’s laws to predict its existence from Uranus’s orbital oddities. That same method fuels today’s search for the elusive Planet Nine. It’s a ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. – Understanding astronomy isn’t just about exploring the universe through a telescope. It’s understanding the laws of physics, challenging theories, and testing ideas with simulations.

When South Dakota Mines Professor Emeritus Donald Teets, D.A., set out to understand contradictory claims in two calculus textbooks 30 years ago, he didn’t expect it to launch a new chapter in his ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

Spine title: Maury's navigation. Edition statement from Preface to the third edition, p. [vi]. Tables XIX and XX and Index (p. [297]-336) are bound after Tables I-XVIII (184 p. inserted after p. [296] ...