The U.S.’s famed Arecibo Observatory survived all manners of threats due to the fact its development in a bowl-formed normal sinkhole in the forested hills of Puerto Rico in 1963. It persisted via almost everything from hurricanes and earthquakes to wild swings of the federal budgetary scythe. That history manufactured […]
Day: December 13, 2020
New Partners Join the STEM Careers Coalition to Support STEM Teaching & Learning
The STEM Professions Coalition – the initial-of-its-sort nationwide STEM initiative driven by corporate leaders and anchored in faculties by Discovery Schooling – marked its initial anniversary by welcoming new customers to the escalating coalition and by presenting educators, students, and people nationwide entry to a host of new, no-cost electronic sources. The array of […]
These Nine Women Should Have Key Roles in the New Administration
President-elect Joe Biden is commencing to announce nominees to popular science positions in his administration. As the U.S. grapples with the outcomes of the past 4 several years of the Trump administration undermining science and harming by now marginalized teams at each flip, it is critical that the Biden workforce […]
Readers Respond to the August 2020 Issue
In “The Biomass Bottleneck,” Eric Toensmeier and Dennis Garrity address the approach of drawing down billions of tons of carbon dioxide by using biomass for power and carbon seize. Their examination concludes that the amount of money of biomass necessary would go away the world with inadequate arable land to […]
Endless Creation Out of Nothing
Astronauts explain the emptiness and darkness of space far from Earth as a startling practical experience. So did the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, in a poem e-mailed to me by writer Dror Burstein. With out ever getting ventured into house (naturally), Rilke wrote a century ago: “Night, shuddering in my […]
Eye Treatment Stretches Mouse Sight Beyond Visible Spectrum
Exhausted of obtaining to achieve for your night-vision goggles when you want to observe someone’s warmth signature right after dark? Very well, biotech may someday come to the rescue for all of you aspiring spies. Mainly because scientists have produced an injectable, nanoscale antenna, which they’ve used to allow for […]