Neutron-star mountains are tiny (but you canât climb âem)
Researchers in the UK have found that neutron-star mountains are less than a millimeter tall. These dense, dead stars are nearly perfectly smooth spheres.
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NASA Measures Interior of Mars for the First time, Revealing Huge Liquid Core
In the first ever measurement of another planet’s core, seismography conducted over several Martian years have revealed the liquid metal core is softer than expected—more like a Mars-mellow than a Mars Bar. While the recently arrived Perseverance rover has been hoovering up much of the Mars-related attention, a trio of recently published papers that measured […]
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A Dyson sphere harvests the energy of stars
Dyson spheres are named after inventor Freeman J. Dyson. A Dyson sphere is a megastructures that civilizations could use to harness the power of stars.
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Science Magazine Blows The Whistle On Implausibly Hot Climate Models
Leading climate scientists conceded that models used to estimate how much the world will warm with rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are running too hot. “It’s become clear over the last year or so that we can’t…
Conservatives may be willing to take on climate change — if you call it something else – Grist
On July 6, lightning sparked a fast-spreading wildfire in southern Oregon that’s now the largest in the country and the state’s third-largest on record. The Bootleg Fire, only recently getting contained after a period of cooler weather, has led more…
Conservatives may be willing to take on climate change — if you call it something else – Grist
On July 6, lightning sparked a fast-spreading wildfire in southern Oregon that’s now the largest in the country and the state’s third-largest on record. The Bootleg Fire, only recently getting contained after a period of cooler weather, has led more…
Caroline Herschel Medal to honor women astronomers
Learn about the Caroline Herschel Medal, meant to honor the contributions of women astronomers. And meet the women who helped shape astronomy.
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Capturing Climate Change – IEEE Spectrum
This is part of IEEE Spectrum’s special report: Critical Challenges 2002: Technology Takes On The government of Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation, made a plea last summer for countries to take in Tuvalu evacuees, fearing a rising sea level will…
A Warming Earth Will Bring More Extreme Rainfall, New Research Shows – Forbes
Destroyed houses on the Ahr river in Rech, Germany, after devastating floods hit the region earlier … [+] this month. AFP via Getty Images Some two thirds of the world’s land area will experience wetter, more variable conditions as the…
Ignoring climate change will yield ‘untold suffering,’ panel of 14,000 scientists warns – Livescience.com
Nearly 14,000 scientists have signed a new climate emergency paper, warning that “untold suffering” awaits the human race if we don’t start tackling global warming head-on, effective immediately. The new paper, published July 28 in the journal BioScience and led…
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