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Cosmologists have struggled to understand an obvious tension in their measurements of the current rate of expansion of the universe known as Hubble's constant. Observations of the early cosmos - mainly the cosmic microwave background -…

Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT AY 30, 2021 By Paul Homewood Across Britain, solar farms are on the march. Some 1,000 acres of rural land a month are earmarked for ‘photovoltaic’ panels and the miles of…

On May 22nd, 2021, the Zhurong rover – part of Tianwen-1, China’s first mission to Mars – descended from its lander and drove on the Martian surface for the first time. According to the mission’s official social media account, the rover…

Guest contribution by Willis Eschenbach There is a new open access paper in Nature Magazine titled “A Stricter Limitation on the Sensitivity of the Earth System Based on Long-Term Observations of Temperature and the Carbon Cycle” by…

Cosmology is now stranger to large scale surveys.  The discipline prides itself on data collection, and when the data it is collecting is about galaxies that are billions of years old its easy to see why more data would be better.  Now,…

From NASA May 28, 2021 NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. The image is made up of 21 individual images stitched…

Since it was first theorized in the 1970s, astrophysicists and cosmologists have done their best to resolve the mystery that is Dark Matter. This invisible mass is believed to make up 85% of the matter in the Universe and accounts for 27%…

Opinion by Kip Hansen – 1 June 2021 If you thought we were over the “You’re a Climate Denier” thing, you would be wrong.  Now, one of America’s leading ‘small town rags with delusions of grandeur’, the Albany-based Times Union , has…

By Richard WilloughbyMay 2021 (The author appreciates the availability NASA’s Earth Observations satellite data sets used in this analysis.) Now a four part series that analyses the role of atmospheric water in regulating Earth’s…

Reposted from the NoTricksZone By P. Gosselin on May 28, 2021 A team of scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in forecasting, suggesting that the NAO is indeed very predictable. Winter temperatures in Europe in…