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Dunes Trapped in a Crater on Mars Kind This Attention-grabbing Sample
Symmetry in nature is pleasing to look at, and even more so when that symmetry is novel. There’s plenty of it to see on Earth, as biological processes have a penchant for patterns. But finding it off-world is trickier, and sometimes…
L A Instances Publishes Beijing-Funded Propaganda, Conceals China’s Large Coal Use & Emissions…
Guest Essay by Larry Hamlin
The L. A. Times regularly runs a paid insert in its Sunday Edition called China Watch which is characterized by other news agencies as being Beijing-Funded Propaganda with the latest edition of China Watch…
Researchers are creating a brand new framework for trying to find biosignatures
Planning ahead is something that sets astronomy and space exploration apart. Decadal surveys and years of technical effort for missions give the field a much longer time horizon than many others. In the near future, scientists know that…
The ‘new regular’ that did not exist – does that match?
Guest essay by Dan Sutter
Tornadoes killed 553 Americans in 2011, the deadliest year since 1925. May 22nd marked the 10th anniversary of the Joplin, Missouri tornado, which killed 161 people. That was the first three-digit number…
Transfer Over Artemis Accords! Behold the Lunar Governance Report and EAGLE Manifesto!
In July 1999, the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) was created with the purpose of representing the “Space Generation” to the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). For this non-governmental organization and professional…
an epistemological reappraisal of ice-core messages – Watts Up With That?
From History of Geo-and Space Sciences
Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 12, 97–110, 2021https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-12-97-2021© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed underthe Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
The…
New Observations Fail to Verify a Planet at Barnard’s Star
With all the new discoveries that seem to occur almost monthly, it’s sometimes hard to remember that finding exoplanets is still a relatively new and difficult science. As part of those continual discoveries, back in 2018 a team announced…
Folks Are Now Permitted to Speculate Covid-19 Leaked from a Laboratory – Watts Up With That?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Following official suggestions the Wuhan laboratory leak hypothesis is being seriously considered by the US Government, Facebook has announced they will now allow users to share their Wuhan…
Views of the superb whole lunar eclipse on Wednesday morning from world wide
The moon turned a reddish hue during the total lunar eclipse that morning in one of the major astronomical events of the year.
What a heavenly show. Depending on your time zone, you either got up early, got up late, or pulled an all-niter…
Governor Newsom tacitly helps the import of aviation gas into Northern California. – Watts up…
The local AQMD district in the Bay Area is considering measures to reduce the supply of aviation fuel as the governor remains silent.
By Ronald Stein
Ambassador for Energy and Infrastructure, Irvine, California
In an effort to…