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During the Bush administration, NASA began monitoring the Moon for explosions - they have turned out to be more common than previously believed, happening hundreds of times each year. Smart Science 2.0 readers are already wondering how there can be an 'explosion' when the Moon has no oxygen atmosphere. Lunar meteors hit the ground with so much kinetic energy that even a pebble can make a crater several feet wide and so the flash of light comes not from combustion but rather from the […]
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The results of a third-party investigation of Rossi's E-CAT reactor have appeared on the Cornell arxiv, and the conclusions of the tests are at the very least startling:
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Space Sounds - New Episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart!!
There is no sound in space.
In the near-vacuum of space, there is nothing to transmit the physical waves that we need to perceive sound. But that doesn’t mean we can’t MAKE sound from space.
This week, I channeled some inner Sagan, got a bit artsy, and I’m happy to feature several brilliant folks using scientific data to create “space sonification” projects. From the longest palindrome ever created to a chorus made from Earth’s
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A shrill whine is engulfing the east coast of the United States. Millions of bluish-black cicadas, specifically Magicicada septendecim, will emerge per acre. These are not the Biblical locusts, more closely related to grasshoppers, but have been likened to them. When Brood II emerges and dies off a few weeks later, we can rest assured that the […]
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The Earliest Days of NASA
Maria Popova, at Brain Pickings, happened upon a treasure trove of early NASA (and its airplane-only predecessor NACA) archive photos. They are really something. From biplanes to the Mercury capsule, pre-1950 aeronautics seemed to live by the motto of “If we build it, then we can go there.” That’s a sentiment we could use a bit more of.
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Who needs regulation, right? <sarcasm> Drugs need regulation or this is what happens. The Dangers Lurking in Male Sexual Supplements | TIME.com. In an editorial published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a colleague collected some of the lesser known facts about an industry that produces millions of pills — and likely generates tens of millions, if not billions of dollars in profits— but is almost entirely […]
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It happens to the best of us. You reach a certain point in your career—well past the newbie stage, well shy of the seasoned veteran. You’re in a bit of [...]The post Taking your work to the next level (Part 1: READ) appeared first on The Science Writers' Handbook.
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Evolution education is entering an exciting time: scientists are working on the Open Tree of Life – the first comprehensive tree charting the evolutionary relationships of all named species — and many U.S. classrooms are preparing for state adoption of … Continue reading »
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That naturopathy is a veritable cornucopia of quackery mixed with the odd sensible, science-based suggestion here and there is not in doubt, at least not to supporters of science-based medicine (SBM). However, what naturopaths are very good at doing is representing their pseudoscience as somehow being scientific and thus on par with actual SBM. So…
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Welcome to the end of one week and the beginning of another. Here are some tasty leftovers. How Much Of Food Activism Is New Age, Airy-Fairy Nonsense? – Forbes. Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that – latimes.com. An Open Letter to Animal Planet: Learn The Difference Between Real and Fake Monsters | Overthinking It, Scientific American Blog Network. And check out Strange Frequencies Radio this week with frequent commentator and all around good guy, Bob […]
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“Evolution is fluid.” - Digital Darwin
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One hundred years ago, Niels Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, where electrons go around a nucleus at the center like planets in the Solar System. The model and its implications brought a lot of clarity to the field of physics at a time when physicists didn’t know what was inside an atom, […]
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No sympathy for Meryl Dorey – if you make outrageous claims (now about apprehended violence orders), be prepared to be called on them. Again. Founder of anti-immunisation group Australian Vaccination Network, Meryl Dorey, uses AVOs to gag critics | thetelegraph.com.au. Former Australian Vaccination Network president Meryl Dorey has applied for AVOs (apprehended violence orders) against three of her most vocal opponents. As a special condition of the AVOs, she wanted the men banned […]
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Chemtrails or Acid Rain ? - The Birth Of Two Myths
The idea that acid rain is some sort of hoax or scam is ludicrous. Sulfuric acid and its environmental effects have been known since ancient historical times. If acid rain is a hoax, then the ancient Sumerians and Greeks were certainly in on it. Modern science has been accumulating facts about environmental damage caused by sulfuric acid since at least 1736, when sulfuric acid was first produced industrially in Britain. When deniers of […]
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This article is the third in a series of articles in which I will profile every woman astronaut, cosmonaut and taikonaut who has been into space. Last time we looked at the career of Svetlana Savitskaya the second woman in [...]testThe post Women in Space: Sally Ride appeared first on Australian Science.
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The chemical formulas of various substances used to mimic plant-based aromas and flavors.
Tastes like science.
