Neil deGrasse Tyson is a multi-award-winning astrophysicist, science communicator, author, presenter and actor, and his brilliance is known around the world. So, it goes without saying, given his stature in the scientific community and in pop culture, when he offers interesting intellectual insight, people listen. That being said, on the October 14 episode of Hot … Read more
NEED TO KNOWAA predicts activity below storm level despite coronal mass ejections reaching Earth. Observers in Alaska, northern Canada, and some upper Midwest states have the best chances of seeing auroras. Smartphone night mode can capture faint displays better than the naked eye. Could the Northern Lights make a surprise cameo tonight? atmosphere, creating brilliant … Read more
How wonderful would it be if the sun could take on a spooky green glow for Halloween? It turns out that scientists have discovered that our star can turn green, but only within billions of years after its death, and only if it then starts eating planets like a cosmic zombie. That’s possible because scientists … Read more
Seen from Earth, the Moon appears so bright and peaceful. But if you look closer, the lunar surface is marked by wrinkles that are also active faults, whose appearance and behavior may be more unexpected than scientists thought. In a study published yesterday in The Planetary Science Journal, scientists report the identification of more than … Read more
Life, it seems, wants to play. Anyone who has spent ten minutes with a five-year-old knows perfectly well: very young children are masters of fantasy. And it’s not just about people: play arises instinctively throughout the animal kingdom. Rats like rough play, especially after periods of isolation. Octopuses will play with Legos the same way … Read more
After decades of discussion, objections and concerns about clocks in computer systems, the world’s official timekeepers voted to replace what many saw as a tedious correction: the leap second. It’s time, they say, for leap hour. Delegates from 69 countries cast their votes Thursday at a conference in France of the International Bureau of Weights … Read more
Government ‘exploring’ future of UK’s largest telescope BBC Jodrell Bank pledge offers new hope for Knockin Dish Shropshire StarHow Jodrell Bank turned a corner The HinduManchester seeks alternative funding for Jodrell despite Burnham pledge Times Higher Education Councilors urged to save Winsford radio telescope amid budget cuts Northwich Guardian
The planet’s widest glacier is melting “more aggressively” than previously predicted, meaning its impacts on global sea level rise could double current estimates, according to new research by a team of glaciologists. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of the catastrophe its collapse would trigger, is a big wild card … Read more
The world’s timekeepers will meet Thursday near Paris to decide whether to eliminate the “leap second,” which could disconnect the clocks we use from the Earth’s rotation and realign time scales. The world’s clocks are designed on the idea that the Earth completes one rotation on its axis in exactly 24 hours. But it actually … Read more
Arratia, G., Schultze, H.-P. & Casciotta, J. Vertebral column and associated elements in dipnoans and comparison with other fishes: development and homology. J. Morphol. 250, 101–172 (2001).Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar Coates, M. The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 87, 363–421 … Read more