Science

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE This week 7 releases worth your time — swipe →

Van Gogh’s Starry Night matches a real predawn sky

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 01 · SCIENCE A Korean team lined up the crescent Moon, Venus and the V of stars in The Starry Night with the dawn sky… Read our review →

The first known green star is WD J1330+6435, a

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 02 · SCIENCE Seen up close, WD J1330+6435 would glow a pale chartreuse green, a colour no star had shown before. A University of Warwick… Read our review →

Westminster Abbey’s Roman sarcophagus holds an abbot buried 700

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 03 · SCIENCE A fourth-century limestone coffin carved for a Roman named Valerius Amandinus holds the bones of a man who died around a thousand… Read our review →

A 13,800-year-old Alaska camp holds the earliest sign of

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 04 · SCIENCE On a bluff above Alaska's Tanana River, Ice Age families built a shelter around a hearth, slow-cooked meat in an earth oven… Read our review →

Webb watched water clouds thicken and thin on a

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 05 · SCIENCE WISE 0855, the coldest brown dwarf known, has patchy water clouds that change thickness as it spins, while gases from deep inside… Read our review →

Japan’s MMX will land on Mars’s moon Phobos and

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 06 · SCIENCE JAXA's MMX probe will orbit Phobos, drop a rover and scoop at least 10 grams of the moon for Earth labs, the… Read our review →

Earth’s tides pushed the Moon’s crust to its far

MARTIN CID MAGAZINE 07 · SCIENCE The first rocks ever returned from the Moon's hidden hemisphere show the same mantle under both faces, so the thick, pale far-side… Read our review →