2019-03-01
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NIH Website Erases All Mention of Climate Change, and Trump’s Science Envoy Quits
August 31, 2017The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has eliminated virtually all references to climate change on its website, according to a report from the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, published on August 20. Similar removals were made earlier this year... continued
Ancient Babylon may have Developed Trigonometry over 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras
August 30, 2017A new analysis of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablet suggests that the ancient Babylonians were using an advanced form of trigonometry roughly a millennium before ancient Greek mathematicians recorded what is known as the Pytharoean theorem. In addition to the... continued
The Why of the Texas Weather Catastrophe
August 29, 2017Hurricane Harvey expanded from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in just 48 hours, and is now stalled over eastern Texas and western Louisiana and dropping rainfall in the area at a rate never before witnessed. But why is... continued
Algae Appearing on Greenland Ice Sheet May Speed up World Flooding
August 25, 2017Ordinarily, the bright, white surface of glacial ice found in ice sheets such as the ones that cover Greenland and Antarctica serve to function as reflectors that bounce a certain amount of solar radiation back into space -- this effect... continued
Mars Might Experience Microburst Snowstorms at Night
August 24, 2017New computer models of Mars' atmosphere are indicating that the Red Planet may experience rapidly-falling snowstorms at night, possibly sprinkling the surface below with a light layer of snow. It was previously assumed that snow that fell on Mars did... continued
The Eclipse Seen in the US and Heard Round the World
August 23, 2017The August 21, 2017 solar eclipse was visible as a total eclipse only over the continental United States, but and around the world people observed the event in many different ways. Millions of Americans turned out to see it, including... continued
The Location of Flight 370 may be Uncovered, based on New Satellite Image Analysis
August 22, 2017Recently analyzed satellite images produced in late March 2014 by the French military appear to show man-made objects floating in the ocean, in one of the areas suspected to be where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may have crashed after running... continued
New Aluminum Nanomaterial Rapidly Converts Water into Hydrogen
August 19, 2017Researchers with the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Research Laboratory have stumbled upon an aluminum alloy that, when structured into a nanomaterial powder, efficiently reacts with ordinary water to produce hydrogen gas, that can in turn be burned to produce... continued
How to Avoid Unsafe Fake Eclipse Glasses
August 18, 2017The excitement is sky-high for the upcoming total solar eclipse that is due to occur on August 21, 2017, and along with major events such as this come safety concerns regarding observers' eyesight, as looking directly at the sun --... continued
U.S. Diplomats in Cuba may have been Attacked with a Sonic Weapon
August 17, 2017The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating what appears to be an attack on U.S. diplomats working in Cuba involving a covert sonic weapon. Last fall, a number of diplomats with the newly-opened U.S. embassy in Havana began to... continued