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The face of a modern human is almost uniquely flat and extraordinarily expressive. But our remarkable faces may not be as "modern" as we think. (A reconstruction of a Neanderthal face is illustrated above). These reconstructed faces look impassive, but a range of emotions are painted onto visitors' faces at the Natural History Museum in London.
A lemniscate is any of several figure-eight or ∞ shaped curves. The word comes from the Latin "lēmniscātus" meaning "decorated with ribbons", from the Greek λημνίσκος meaning ribbons. In astronomy, an analemma (from Greek ἀνάλημμα analēmma "support") is a diagram showing the deviation of the Sun from its mean motion in the sky, as viewed from a fixed location on the Earth. An analemma can be traced by plotting the position of the Sun as viewed from a fixed position on Earth at the same clock time every day for an entire year, or by fixed camera taking time lapse pictures throughout one year. The resulting curve resembles a long, slender figure-eight with one lobe much larger than the other, known as a lemniscate of Bernoulli.
More than 50 years after the Lascaux caves in southwestern France were closed to the public, a new exhibition has opened. Lascaux 4, a spectacular replica of France’s most celebrated cave art using interactive guides and multi-screen displays, opened on 15 December, 2016. The new International Cave Art Centre is located in Montignac, Dordogne, in the southweste region of France.
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Major floods have been taking place in the UK during the begining of 2014. South-west England has been worst hit, with many homes still flooded and part of a key railway line destroyed.The accelerating pace of extreme weather events is an acute challenge to political leaders. On November 8, 2013, a devastating typhoon struck the south-central islands in the Philippines. There were early warnings of what was to come, but over 6,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes and livelihoods destroyed.
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The effects of climate change are already evident in Europe and the situation is set to get worse, the European Environment Agency has warned. In a recently released report, the agency says the past decade in Europe has been the warmest on record. It adds that the cost of damage caused by extreme weather events is rising, and the continent is set to become more vulnerable in the future. The findings have been published ahead of next week's UN climate conference.
