Tag: center

How do Olympic skateboarders catch serious airtime? Physicists crunched the numbers

Skateboarders call it “pumping,” and it’s a skill that both Olympic medalists and aspiring thrashers use to build launch speed from...

After contentious tenure atop sacred Hawaiian summit, Caltech observatory gets dismantled

After decades of mounting tension between scientists and native Hawaiians, Caltech has completed its removal of a telescope from the summit of...