Giant swells this year have stripped sand from Southern California beaches. Experts warn that this year’s El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded, bringing even more damaging surf.Continue Reading
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As House Republicans crafted Traitor 47’s domestic policy bill last spring, the oil and gas industry watched closely, eyes trained on the fate of one policy in particular: a fee on excess methane emissions for major emitters in the oil and gas industry. Even though Congress had previously repealed the rule implementingContinue Reading
As Canadian politicians and CEOs continue to promote data centres under the banner of digital sovereignty, a proposed project for Alberta not only threatens to place data in the hands of the U.S. government, but is being developed by a MAGA-supporting company. DeSmog recently revealed how a high proportion ofContinue Reading
Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal mudflats to the open sea, but only where oxygen was available. Oxygen-free environments contained simpler microbes instead. The findings strengthen theContinue Reading
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APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss This “Life in the Universe” debate in 2020 has a quite different format than the commemorated “Scale of the Universe” debate in 1920. Here, instead of just two debaters, several noted scientists are giving their “best guess” asContinue Reading
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The sewage sludge some farmers have applied to their fields for decades is contaminated with PFAS—with serious consequences for drinking water. By Ben Seal When Nicole Williams moved into her house in Pennsylvania’s North Centre Township in 2011, it was a homecoming. She’d spent the first few years of herContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as an educational resource in classrooms from elementary school to graduate school. Below, some teachers share how they have used APOD in their classrooms. If you have found APOD usefulContinue Reading
APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss 1920: Scale of the Universe Debate History & brief summaries: About the 1920 Greate Debate | Wikipedia | This Month in Astronomical History | Astronomy’s Great Remembrance Virginia Trimble: History of the Scale of the Universe Debate Deborah Shapley (Granddaughter): Harlow Shapley: Discovering Our Place in theContinue Reading