Dust is omnipresent throughout homes and offices around the world. But now, scientists are intentionally bringing the mildly inconvenient nuisance all the way up to the International Space Station to study how dust grains arrange themselves in a microgravity environment.
As part of the Plasma Kristall-4 (PK-4) experimenthttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/aps-uo110218.php — a joint collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Rosco ...read more
A researcher makes the case that all infectious diseases are seasonal. (Credit: Dirima/Shutterstock.com)
(Inside Science) — During the height of the polio epidemic in the U.S. in the 1940s and ’50s, parents often kept their children away from swimming pools, concerned that the disease, which peaked in the summer, was frequently spread through the water. But this fear couldn’t account for the summertime outbreaks around the world where public pools were not as common.
Then in ...read more
Our planet teems with life. But are we a fluke, or an inevitability? Credit: ESA
Humans have often looked at the night sky and wondered if there’s anyone else out there. But stare into that darkness long enough, and many wonder instead: how did we get here? What were the odds, in a universe so enormous and chaotic, that humans should have come to exist at all? Is life, let alone intelligent life, such a wildly improbable occurrence that we’re the only ones here? Or are we an i ...read more
SciStarter offers something for anyone who is curious or concerned about the natural world.
In this edition, we highlight Fall projects the Girl Scouts are doing all across the nation. But anyone can participate in these projects!
Girl Scouts USA and SciStarter have joined forces on the “Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey” featuring a handful of curated projects (some are listed below) aligned with the Outdoor STEM badges. Find dozens of other G ...read more
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