1st moon-forming disk around an exoplanet

Astronomers have found solid evidence for a moon-forming disk around a distant exoplanet. It provides new clues as to how moons and planets form.

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This woman was the first scientist to chart the physics of climate change—in 1856 – Fast Company

By Sylvia G. Dee 5 minute Read advertisement Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the Civil War, an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis. advertisement advertisement…

Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote – The Conversation US

Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis. The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper…

Global approach is needed on battery regulation

(University of Birmingham) New European Union regulations on batteries could offer a huge boost to the global decarbonisation mission – but only if it leverages its political and economic weight to ensure a fairer global marketplace.

Paralyzed Man’s Brain Waves Get Turned Into Sentences on Computer, Scientists ‘Thrilled’ Beyond Words

Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences—translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen. The achievement builds on more than a decade of effort by UCSF neurosurgeon Edward […]

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Climate change spares no country, poor or rich, says Amitav Ghosh – DW (English)

For Amitav Ghosh, nature is an intricate part of storytelling. The Indian author with Bangladeshi heritage who has made New York his home often uses the Sunderbans, the mangrove forests in the Bay of Bengal, as the setting for his stories. These include novels like…

How Global Warmists Package Panic

That the latest World Weather Attribution (WWA) post, Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heatwave on the Pacific Coast of the US and Canada June 2021, has twenty-one contributors from prestigious research groups around the world gave it even more…

Cracked surface of Venus behaves like sea ice

Venus’ cracked surface suggests a moveable crust for this nearby world, and suggests the planet might still be geologically active today.

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Moons of rogue planets could have water and life

A new study from scientists at LMU in Germany says that there could be enough heat and liquid water on moons of rogue planets – free-floating worlds with no suns – to support life. Cosmic rays could drive processes such as photosynthesis, instead of direct sunlight.

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The Scorpion’s Crown and its stellar neighborhood

Bright red Antares, and the 3 stars of the Scorpion’s Crown, belong to a young group of stars called the Scorpius-Centaurus Association.

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