This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet. Not only can this extra layer keep you warm on…
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how I use penguin faeces to measure contaminants in Antarctica
“In this image, I’m collecting faecal samples from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Horseshoe Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula at about 68° S. As an analytical chemist, my research focuses on detecting trace contaminants such as…
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Bound for Antarctica: A Trip to Study the Thwaites Glacier Is Underway – The New York Times
- Bound for Antarctica: A Trip to Study the Thwaites Glacier Is Underway The New York Times
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NASA’s Voyager Spacecraft Hit a Blazing 50,000 Kelvin “Wall” at the Edge of Our Solar System That Shouldn’t Exist
Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the Sun’s influence ends and interstellar space begins. The probes, launched in 1977, identified this boundary zone…
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Halley’s Comet, Great Conjunctions, And A Nail-Biting Close Approach: Astronomical Events To Look Forward To This Century
There’s an annual tradition of popular science articles looking forward to astronomical events to watch for in the coming year. There’s always at least one, and sometimes several, eclipses that might be worth traveling to, some meteor showers…
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The planet that shouldn’t exist
Observations of other stars suggest Super Mercuries might be quite common in our galaxy, says Cambioni, accounting for perhaps 10 to 20% of all planets out there. That’s a bit of a problem because, like Mercury, we don’t know how they form –…
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Fusion reactors may create dark matter particles
A University of Cincinnati physicist and an international team of collaborators say they have worked out a theoretical method for producing axions inside fusion reactors. It is a challenge that even two well known fictional physicists could not…
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James Webb telescope spies a monstrous molecular cloud shrouded in mystery — Space photo of the week
JWST’s view of the Sagittarius B2 region in near-infrared light. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam Ginsburg (University of Florida), Nazar Budaiev (University of Florida), Taehwa Yoo (University of Florida); Image Processing:… Continue Reading
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Are We Living Inside A Black Hole?
Black holes are among the strangest objects in the universe. Even though we have learned a great deal about them, they continue to challenge our understanding of physics.
In an attempt to reconcile some of the paradoxes discovered when studying…
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Dark Energy may be changing and with it the fate of the Universe
Pallab Ghosh
KPNO/NOIRLabA lonely telescope in the Arizona desert tracks millions of distant galaxies to determine the ultimate fate of the Universe There is growing controversy over recent evidence suggesting that a mysterious force known as dark…
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