WEIRD SCIENCE
Astronomers have found a way to estimate the number of stars in the universe. Comstock Images via Getty Images – By Brian Jackson, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Boise State University 2021 Sep 20 – Curious Kids is a series for children of all …
Artist’s evidence-based depiction of the blast, which had the power of 1,000 Hiroshimas. Allen West and Jennifer Rice, CC BY-ND – By Christopher R. Moore’ Archaeologist and Special Projects Director at the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program and South Carolina Institute for Archaeology …
Cassandra, Evelyn de Morgan, 1898 – By Lawrence Wittner Dr. Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). 2021 Sep 19 News at Home – In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess …
Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering, and his students have created the whitest paint on record. – By Doyle Rice 2021 Sep 17 — The whitest paint in the world has been created in a lab at Purdue University, a …
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behavior. The Contrebandiers Cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, where the bone tools and bones were found. Photograph: Contrebandiers – By Nicola Davis Science correspondent @NicolaKSDavis …
A farmer walks through a rice paddy in India’s northeastern state of Assam. Buu Boro /AFP via Getty Images – By Xiaoming Xu, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Atul Jain, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of …
Heat and dryness are leaving high mountain areas more vulnerable to forest fires. David McNew/Getty Images – By Mojtaba Sadegh, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University and by John Abatzoglou, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced and by Mohammad …
Peter Gleick argues there’s an urgent need to reshape our relationship to water: ‘There is enormous untapped potential for conservation’ The Enterprise Bridge crosses over a section of Lake Oroville in Oroville, California. Water levels at the lake have dropped to 42% of …
Mining cryptocurrency requires lots of cheap energy and many miners have settled on Texas as their destination. Hundreds of machines more powerful than the average computer will soon be housed in this 320-acre mining facility in Dickens county, Texas. Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock – …
A close-up of the head of a leafcutter ant, Atta cephalotes, showing the metal-infused teeth on its mandibles. Ryan Garrett, CC BY-ND – By Robert Schofield, Research Professor in Physics, University of Oregon 2021 Sep 01 The Research Brief is a short take …
