Three elderly scientists who spent decades modeling climate change, and then tried to warn the world of what’s coming, were awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for physics. Syukuro Manabe, 90, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, “carried out pioneering work in the1960s and 1970s that sounded an e[...]
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Research behind Covid-19 vaccines doesn’t win Nobel Prize
It read like a script for a made-for-TV movie: Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA” because she was convinced it “could be used for something truly groundbreaking.” And it was: The Pfizer and Mo[...]
The ignorant stargazer’s guide to monthly payments
This is Friday Science Night (I’ve already posted two astronomy articles in a row), so you may be wondering by now how to get your own feet wet. (Go barefoot, silly!) I’m here to help. “The Webb Space Telescope [if it ever gets off the ground — ed.] will generate incredible i[...]
October 1st, 2021 - 8:39 pm § in Science
Was the Big Bang a cannon?
The artist’s drawing below seems to suggest it was. Most people, though, probably imagine it as a huge explosion at a point in space from which everything was flung outward and is still going. That’s why they call it the “Big Bang,” right? (Not everyone does, see article here[...]
October 1st, 2021 - 8:05 pm § in Science
A brief history of the universe
Read article here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Map proves Vikings discovered North America by 1950s
If the famous Vinland Map (pictured below) is an actual Viking map, and that’s a big if, it proves that Vikings discovered North America no later than the mid-1950s. Acquired from an Italian dealer who went to prison for stealing rare manuscripts, and donated to Yale University by a wealthy ph[...]
September 28th, 2021 - 12:44 pm § in Environment, Science
Don’t be born after 1980
“A child born in 2021 will live on average through seven times as many heat waves, twice as many wildfires and nearly three times as many droughts, crop failures and river floods as their grandparents,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, based on a study “released Su[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 6:50 pm § in Science
When did humans come to New Mexico?
A. 6,000 years ago B. 11,000 years ago C. 16,000 years ago D. 23,000 years ago E. 44,000 years ago F. 1,500,000 years ago Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 22nd, 2021 - 9:07 pm § in Science
Will JWST finally get off the ground?
It cost 10 billion bucks, and is 14 years behind schedule, but the James Webb Space Telescope will finally launch into space on October 31, 2021. No wait, that date is now December 18, 2021, which probably should be considered as tentative, too. In the early days of science, gentlemen astronomers bu[...]
September 20th, 2021 - 1:21 am § in Science
Could a solar flare fry your iPhone?
Sure could. A little one could knock out the entire internet. A bigger one would also take out satellites, the internet, power grids, undersea cables — and data storage. “We could lose all our records, bank information, and critical health information and not have anything to go back to.[...]