Last year I was inspired to find random moments of science in several of the entries' lyrics. No one told me never to do it again, so here we go...
Author: JD Voyek
Science Tangents: The Expanse s3e01
I pitched this post to my SYFY Wire editor and he totally ghosted me. Oh well.
Throwing Stones at Marvel’s Infinity War
Spoilers for a 27-year-old comic ahead...and, ya know...a brand new movie
The Largest Planet Found Around the Smallest(-type) Star
The discovery of as large a planet as NGTS-1b around an M-dwarf throws a proverbial wrench into astronomers' assumptions about planetary formation.
Charts! Women and the Nobel Prize
67.5% of the years at least one Nobel Prize was awarded have NO female laureates. That jumps to 85.8% if you only look at STEM.
Fat Mutant Plants
Whether or not people are going to take this research and try to breed super-sugary/fatty lettuce in some weird attempt to make people buy more salad is a question for another day.
Does the Magic School Bus really Ride Again?
Without asking my 7-year-old niece for confirmation, I give it a thumbs up for the target audience.
Astronomy in the Tolkien ‘Verse
Does astronomy in Tolkien's literary world line up with ours? Or is it pure fantasy?
Carbon Nanotube Use #51b: Beating Biology’s Water Filters
It's good to know that CNTs are useful for things other than space elevators that will probably never get built and the paint that's so black anything you coat with it looks like a hole.
Photos: August 21, 2017
(Unfortunately, the camera started to be uncooperative as totality came to an end...)
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