When the members of British quartet Mumford & Sons began their initial chart ascent in early 2010, their competition was outsize pop acts such as the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Mumford & Sons was a novelty of pastoral folkies whose every song sounded as if they had recorded it dressed in tweed jackets with elbow patches. They might as well have been aliens.
The band has since sold about 7million records, won a Grammy for album of the year (for 2012's " Read More...
Explore More A spaced-out theory that claimed evidence of Martian life may have been debunked by scientists after a decades-long debate that alienated some skeptical researchers.
A 4-billion-year-old Martian meteorite found in Antarctica in the 1980s was said to contain evidence of ancient living things on the Red Planet but experts announced Thursday they had confirmed it showed no signs of extraterrestrial life.
A NASA-led team of researchers suggested in 1996 that the gray-green space rock appeared to have organic compounds left behind from living organisms, which was doubted by many scientists at the time and prompted decades of further research. Read More...
PARIS — Canyon Barry is a part-time basketball player.
His full-time job is system engineer for a defense and space contractor.
Barry, who will take the courts at the Paris Games searching for a 3x3 gold medal for the U.S. men’s team, has an undergraduate degree from the College of Charleston in physics and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from Florida. So, is he a rocket scientist? A nuclear physicist? Read More...