Kristin Butler dedicates her Scuba Series in remembrance of her beloved mother, Marilyn Butler, who passed along to Kristin a deep love for science and nature along with a pair of pink scuba diving fins.
Each year, the Long Beach Scuba Show brings together divers from around the world for seminars and exhibits on all things scuba, with topics ranging from dive gear to scuba vacations. Though the show mostly showcases the business side of diving, visitors can also learn about nonprofits that ...read more
A paper just out in eccentric medical journal Medical Hypotheses caught my eye yesterday:
Potential role of calcifying nanoparticles in the etiology of multiple sclerosis
Hmm, I thought, this looks interesting. I'd never heard of the idea that nanoparticles could cause neurological illness.
So I read the paper and quickly found myself falling down a (nano)rabbithole into a fascinating and little-known tale of strange science.
It turns out that the 'calcifying nanoparticles' ment ...read more
Suomi NPP/VIIRS image of the Raikoke plume, taken June 22, 2019. NASA.
It has been awhile since we've had an unexpected eruption, but last night Raikoke in the Kuril Islands off Russia had an impressive explosion. Most people (and volcanologists) are likely unfamiliar with this remote volcano and rightly so -- only ~140 people live within 100 kilometers and the last known eruption was in 1924. However, the last two eruptions (1924 and 1778) were both VEI 4 events.
The new eruption sent a ...read more
In May, Jeff Bezos unveiled the lunar lander, dubbed Blue Moon, that his spacecraft company Blue Origin hopes to fly in the coming years. (Credit: Blue Origin)
The rocket’s flare is sudden and brilliant, a blurring horizontal column of whooshing fire. Just as quickly, the bright jet flickers out of existence, the few seconds of burn enough complete the test.
A pause in the control room, then applause ripples around. The group retires to a test cell nearby, where there are speeches an ...read more
The PUNCH mission will include four microsatellites that work together to watch the entire heliosphere. (Credit: SwRI)
The sun powers life on Earth and keeps us from freezing to death. It also occasionally sends out bursts of charged particles that can be deadly to astronauts outside Earth’s sheltering atmosphere, and also wreak havoc on electronics both on and above Earth. There's also a lot researchers still don't understand about the sun's behavior, including how its outermost layer ...read more
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