In this tutorial, we find and plot a catenary curve using GlowScript Python, walking through the math, physics, and code step by step. Learn how to model a hanging cable, visualize the curve, and ...

This beginner-friendly tutorial shows how to create clear, interactive graphs in GlowScript VPython. You’ll learn the basics of setting up plots, graphing data in real time, and customizing axes and ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that now occupies the desert west of modern Cairo. His colorfully decorated tomb, ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...