Environment
Is Santa’s Sleigh Zero Carbon the Answer Lies in Reindeer Poo
Santa’s sleigh is famously hauled by eight reindeer, nine if you count the glowing Rudolf helps the weather is bad. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Cupid,…
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Technology
How Jimmy Carter Stopped the First Nuclear Meltdown (Long Before He Was President)
A recent tweet has brought attention to a little-known aspect of nuclear history: Jimmy Carter’s role in preventing the first nuclear meltdown, which occurred long…
Astronomy
Hidden Water May have Been Found at the Bottom of Mars’ Largest Canyon
Valles Marineris, the Solar System’s greatest canyon, is a tectonic fracture that has expanded by erosion and is characterized by neighboring channels that may have…
Environment
Are Real or Fake Christmas Trees Better For the Environment
While getting ready to deck the halls and set up the Christmas tree this year, you may have wondered if cutting down a natural tree…
Astronomy
Best Views Captured Yet Reveal Stars Orbiting Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
A supermassive black hole is known as Sagittarius A* sits in the heart of the Milky Way. It has a mass of almost 4 million…
Chemistry
Lactobionic Acid – a Sugar Acid
Lactobionic acid is classified as a sugar acid. It is a disaccharide formed by oxidizing lactose. It’s a disaccharide made up of gluconic acid and…
Astronomy
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Make Its Rocket Fuel from Thin Air
Elon Musk, who just voted Time magazine’s Person of the Year, has announced that SpaceX is launching a program to extract carbon dioxide from the…
Astronomy
Fossil Spiral Arms Found In the Outskirts of the Milky Way
The Gaia Space Observatory has revealed the motion of millions of stars in incredible detail, allowing astronomers to see patterns and discover shared origins and…
Astronomy
For The First Time Ever a Spacecraft Has “Touched the Sun”
One of NASA’s declared aims when it unveiled its probe to study the Sun from record near distances was to sample the solar corona, evocatively…
Environment
The Pollution Produced by Consumption in the World’s Largest Economies causes Half of all Premature Deaths
PM2.5 particles are responsible for the haze that obscures a blue sky or a lovely skyline. PM2.5 refers to particulate matter that is smaller than…
Astronomy
HD 126614 Ab – an Extrasolar Planet
HD 126614 Ab is an extrasolar planet that orbits the primary K-type star HD 126614 A, which is located in the constellation Virgo approximately 240…
Political Science
Influences of Political Persuasion Water Policies in Cities should be as Strong as Climate Policies
A recent analysis shows that a city’s water rules are as much tied to whether it leans left or right as to whether the climate…
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