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Sand dunes on Mars change from season to season
Mars' gravity makes it an amazing place to find some of the greatest landscapes in the solar system. This includes the largest sand dune in the solar system - one that is located in Russell Crater. Now a team of scientists led by Dr.…
International Warming Reduces Plankton Development Fee – Watts That?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Anyone who thinks that keeping the swimming pool green in summer is a struggle is wrong. According to a recent study, warming is slowing the rate of plankton growth and starving animals in the food chain.…
An unique rationalization for probably the most excessive gravitational wave so far
In May 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo discovered the fusion of two black holes. One had a mass of 85 suns while the other had 66 solar masses. The event was named GW190521 and was the largest merger seen to…
Texas “Wind was working nearly in addition to anticipated” – Half Deux – Watts Up With That?
Guest “debunking the debunkers” by David Middleton
Setting the Stage
Why was Texas, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) in particular, so unprepared for the onslaught of frigid weather? This was NOAA’s February…
That is what rolling energy failures from area appear to be
Extreme winter weather hit Texas hard this February. A mass of air from the Arctic extended deep into the United States from Canada, with disastrous consequences for the normally warm state. Along with snow and abnormally low…
Russian internet bots trigger local weather activists to struggle one another – what is the…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Michael Mann, the main obstacle to climate action is a coalition of Russian robots, Saudis, fossil fuel tycoons, Rupert Murdoch, Wikileaks and climate deniers.
Climatologist Michael E Mann:…
A Overview of “Extraterrestrial” by Prof. Avi Loeb
On October 19th, 2017, astronomers from the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object in our Solar System. In honor of the observatory that first spotted it, this object (designated…
How does the Johnson & Johnson vaccine evaluate to different coronavirus vaccines? Four…
Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine in adults. Maureen Ferran, a virologist at Rochester Institute of…
Did the outdated Martian life eat stones for meals?
Some lucky astronomers work with the rarest material in the world. True Martian meteorites are extremely rare, but invaluable for understanding Martian geology. Now one of the most famous meteorites, nicknamed Black Beauty, is helping…
Biden restores Obama’s “social value of carbon” – what is the level?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Biden has raised the social cost of carbon from Trump's $ 8 / tonne to the Obama level of $ 51 / tonne. The real benefit, however, is the price of methane ($ 1,500 / ton) and nitrous oxide from…