[ad_1] ATLAS (C/2019 L3), a small but relatively bright comet, circled through Gemini this winter and remains visible in modest telescopes this spring. Juanjo Gonzalez In early January, I wrote about winter comets with the promise to return for a broader look at the remainder of the year. Here, we’ll explore both current comets and…
[ad_1] An artist’s impression of a quasar within its host galaxyNOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva A quasar is a supermassive black hole feeding on gas at the center of a distant galaxy. Quasar is short for quasi-stellar radio source, because astronomers first discovered quasars in 1963 as objects that looked like…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier Thursday morning (March 31), and you can watch the action live. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle is scheduled to lift off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas Thursday at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 a.m. local…
[ad_1] The Sun unleashed an X-class solar flare — the most intense kind — on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, as seen here in an image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Eruptions of gas associated with flares that exploded two days earlier may bring beautiful northern lights displays late on March 30th and early on…
[ad_1] Whether we are in a new geological epoch is still up for debate, but geologists have almost decided where on Earth should be the official birthplace of the Anthropocene Earth 25 January 2022 By Adam Vaughan Crawford Lake in Ontario, one of the candidate sites to mark the dawn of the Anthropocene Shutterstock /…
[ad_1] The Cambrian animals preserved at the Chengjiang fossil site in China lived in a shallow sea close to a river delta – a changeable environment that might have driven rapid evolution Life 28 March 2022 By Michael Marshall Luolishania (left) and Naroia, two fossils from the Chengjiang site Xiaoya Ma Some of the first…
[ad_1] To make sense of mysteries like quantum mechanics and the passage of time, theorists are trying to reformulate physics to include subjective experience as a physical constituent of the world Physics 30 March 2022 By Thomas Lewton Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza A WALK in the woods. Every shade of green. A fleck of rain.…
[ad_1] by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD In China there is a popular joke about the southern city of Guangzhou (Canton). A visiting space alien, curious to learn about Chinese customs, tours its various provinces. Arriving in Guangzhou the alien asks the locals what their interests are. The Cantonese oblige their guest by…
[ad_1] Women Who Lead Season #2 Episode 3. Women Who Lead is Xplore’s podcast series, interviewing influential women, sharing skills, knowledge wisdom, and success and failures throughout workplace challenges. Our third guest is Dr. Mariane Melo, Chief Medical Officer at DEM DX, an award-winning AI Healthcare company based in London, and listed as 1 of…
[ad_1] Humans have created more than 8 billion metric tons of plastic since synthetic materials began being produced on a large scale in the early 1950s. This volume could cover the entire country of Argentina and most of the material has been dumped in landfills, or in the natural environment. Geyer, an associate professor at…