WEIRD SCIENCE
By Michael Irving – Researchers have found that treating drinking water with chlorine could produce previously-unknown byproducts. Shebeko/Depositphotos. – Adding chlorine is one of the most common methods of disinfecting drinking water, but just how safe is it? Researchers from Johns Hopkins have now …
By Michael Irving – From left, researchers on the study Zhiyong Xia, Matthew Logan and Spencer Langevin. Johns Hopkins APL. Clean water is all around us, and more literally than you might think – it’s floating around in the air most of …
By Nick Lavars – A breakthrough in battery architecture could lead to lithium batteries with far greater energy densities than those used today. Stillfx/Depositphotos. One of the many ways scientists hope to improve the performance of today’s lithium batteries is by swapping out some …
By Rich Haridy – New research suggests a very specific ultrasound frequency and pulse duration can kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones alone. Ugreen/Depositphotos. – A team of Caltech researchers is proposing a radical new technique for killing cancer cells using low-intensity …
Most people see weeds as a problem. But one farmer has found they can help make dry, damaged land lush again – not to mention absorb carbon from the atmosphere. By Georgina Kenyon – More than 60 years ago, when he was a …
How a killer flu spread from western Kansas to the world. By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, February 19, 2018 – Ground Zero in one of the world’s deadliest influenza pandemics started quietly, inconspicuously. It was winter, 100 years ago. And it was …
By Anthony Wood – An image showing an active region of the Sun, taken in July 2017 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA. – A solar super-storm capable of seriously disrupting modern day technology has erupted from our Sun on average …
Most visitors will walk past 109 East Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and have no idea that they are passing the site that once served as Robert Oppenheimer’s office. By Larry Bleiberg, 29 January 2020 – In the courtyard of a …
Scientists are getting closer to solving one of the biggest Martian mysteries. By Passant Rabie – In May, 2018, Mars was engulfed by a massive dust storm, covering the entire planet in a hazy blur that lasted for months. But while such an …
As the Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun appears to move through the ancient constellations of the zodiac. Tauʻolunga/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. By James Kaler, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – I was born a Capricorn (please don’t judge …
