“This is going to have a bigger impact on science and human understanding, in many ways, than the first discovery of gravitational waves. We’re going to be puzzling over the observations we’ve made with gravitational waves and with light for…
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Why Neutron Stars, Not Black Holes, Show The Future Of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
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The Great Pacific Invasion | ScienceBlogs
When the big tsunami hit Japan in 2011, many objects were washed out to sea. This flotsam provided for a giant “rafting event.” A rafting event is when animals, plants, etc. float across an otherwise uncrossable body of water and end up alive on…
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The data gap problem | ScienceBlogs
“The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federal government.”
— Former Obama science adviser John Holdren
The other…
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The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters
For people who are wondering why I’m not doing more of my patented chronologies or collections of posts, the answer is pretty simple. There’s so damn much going on it’s hard for me to find the time and mental energy to bring it…
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Attempts to save Houston’s bats
Got bugs? Get a bat. As many species of bats are insectivores, they help keep insect populations in check. Hurricane Harvey has been devastating to people, animals and property. So it probably comes as no surprise that there are many volunteers…
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The limits of adaptation | ScienceBlogs
The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental issue in the world today.
— “Costs and benefits of carbon dioxide,” Nature, May 3, 1979
Actually, the scientific…
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Comments of the Week #174: from growing black holes to nuclear bombs
“It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” ―Galadriel, LOTR, J.R.R. Tolkien
Well, we’ve been anticipating it for months (or years), but this is our very…
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NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities
by Dominika Heusinkveld, MD, MPH Researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona, among others, are hoping to make real-time air quality forecasting a reality in the next few years. The NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, or…
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Poisonings went hand in hand with the drinking water in Pompeii
The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced water supply. But the drinking water in the pipelines was probably poisoned on a scale that may have led to daily problems with vomiting, diarrhoea, and liver and kidney damage. This is the…
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The Dutch Nearly Beat James Cook to New Zealand
A shipwreck discovered off New Zealand dates to a time before Cook’s arrival
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