Through the ceiling and smack into her pillow. A British Columbia woman is now the proud owner of a meteorite. Why is she smiling? Because it missed her. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
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NIH director decides to retire
Dr. Francis Collins, who has led the National Institutes of Health since 2009, announced his retirement on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (read story here). Collins, 71, is a respected expert in the field of genetics, and a renowned “gene hunter” (bio here). He was appointed to head the NIH [...]
October 5th, 2021 - 8:49 am § in Science
2021 Nobel Physics Prize goes to climate scientists
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[...]
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
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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[...]