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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Still think climate change is a hoax?
“Don’t Look Up” is a satire film about humanity in denial about an impending comet collision with earth (details here). It’s a not-too-subtle play on attitudes about climate change. Denialism is quite possibly the most striking cultural phenomenon of our time. Election, clima[...]
Is your dog smart as a toddler, or is your toddler as smart as a dog?
Researchers have discovered dogs can learn much the same way as human toddlers do. This dog, owned by a psychologist, knows the names of over 1,000 objects. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moonshot is go; watch launch here (video)
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Smiling sun
This is a real photo, snapped by NASA. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
A black hole is born
Around 2.4 billion years ago, a massive star in the Sagitta Constellation collapsed to form a black hole, and fired gamma rays into space. Astronomers are calling the explosion “BOAT” — the “brightest of all time.” The gamma rays arrived at our planet last week, and wer[...]
Why can’t time go backwards?
Want to read something that isn’t about politics? Courtesy of BBC News, I have just the article for you! It begins, “When Isaac Newton published his famous Principia in 1687, his three elegant laws of motion solved a lot of problems. … But these laws brought to physics a new probl[...]
Swede wins Nobel Medicine Prize for tracing ancient DNA
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo, 67, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history” including sequencing the first Neanderthel genome,[...]
Close-up photo of asteroid
This is a photo of the asteroid hit by NASA’s “DART” mission on Monday, September 26, 2022, just before impact. The story (read it here) says the egg-shaped asteroid is 530 feet in diameter. (Wikipedia says 560 feet, here.) My question is, in which direction, since it’s not r[...]
How it was proved the earth spins on an axis
Writer Erik Larson (profile here) described it as follows: “In 1627, a very brave if melodramatic German mathematician, Joseph Furtenbach, aimed a loaded cannon into the sky in preparation for an experiment he hoped would provide the first real-world test of another of Galileo’s theories[...]