Hello everyone, welcome to Science Saturday. Here’s what we’ve learned this week: LiveScience: Supernovas Are Hot A team of scientists studing supernova 1987a, the closest and most recent supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope, are now using x-rays to observe the dying star’s emissions. The result? Supernovas are really cool. Not …
Welcome to Science Saturday. Let’s Begin: Science Magazine: RIP Opportunity (Probably) Massive dust storms in 2018 blocked out the sun over NASA’s Opportunity rover, limiting the rover’s solar cell output, and draining the batteries. It also likely coated the solar cells with dust, so that they have not produced power for the rover, even though …
Hello again, and welcome to another Science Saturday. Let’s begin: NewScientist: #TenYearChallenge The Ten Year Challenge has been trending on social media this week. It involves posting side-by-side pictures of yourself, taken ten years apart. NewScientist made a science edition of the challenge, featuring a few scientific photos taken ten years apart. My favorite is …
Good Morning, and welcome back to Science Saturday. Let’s begin. BBC: Weird Signals from Space Scientists have detected repeated, millisecond-long radio signals from a galaxy approximately 1.5 billion light-years away. The signals were generated with a level of energy roughly equivalent to what the sun can produce in one year. This is only the second …
Before we get into Science Saturday, I will announce the winner of the Holiday Raffle. Congratulations to: Tammie Ahearn! And a big thank you to everyone who participated in the raffle. Stick around for more contests in the future. Without further ado, Science Saturday: Space.com: Both sides of the Heliosphere Touched Last Month, the Voyager …
Hello everyone. Welcome to another Science Saturday. Here’s what’s happening: ScienceDaily: Fractals in Medicine Scientists are starting to use fractal mathematics to model gene interactions. Fractals are patterns found in nature which recur at progressively smaller scales. Scientists believe that because DNA interactions are not random, fractal models will simulate things like cancer growth and …
Welcome to another Science Saturday! Let’s begin: Futurism.com: Fusion Reactor World Records A second round of tests were conducted at the Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator, a type of reactor that’s used to research fusion. The Stellerator was able to sustain plasma for 100 seconds, a new world record, and achieved temperatures of over 36 million …
Welcome to another Science Saturday everyone. Let’s begin. ScienceNews: Redefining the Kilogram On November 16, at a session of the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, The powers that be decided to eliminate Le Grand K as the standard definition of the kilogram. The kilogram will instead be defined by the Planck …
Welcome to another Science Saturday. Let’s begin: Space.com: RIP Kepler NASA retired the Kepler telescope this week, putting an end to a 9-year mission. Kepler was launched in 2009, and was tasked with identifying other stars in our galaxy that might host worlds that are similar to Earth. The data that the Kepler telescope gathered …
This week’s Science Saturday is going to be a little space-heavy. I usually try to split it up among the major disciplines, but not this time. LiveScience: Aliens Might Be Purple Scientists have been learning how to use green light signatures from exoplanets to determine if they might host life, but have recently begun …