Plate tectonics acts like a planetary thermostat, cycling greenhouse gasses from the deep Earth to the atmosphere. The results appear in the January 22, 2016 issue of the journal Science. All these conditions were fulfilled sometime in early Earth history,…
George Cronk
George Cronk
Science writers have the challenging and important task of taking difficult scientific concepts and making them both interesting and accessible to readers. Most science writers approach the job from either sphere, first training as scientists before switching over to writing as I did, or training as a journalist before specializing in the science beat. When I first started out, I used to err on the side of the scientist, going into exhaustive detail about the methodology and minutiae of every study.
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So, how do you go about replicating the wings of a pigeon cadaver and developed a computer model of the bird’s wing motion. Using the model, they used real pigeon wings, of course! The team that created the PigeonBot –…
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Physics and Astronomy
A Black Hole | What Is A Binary Neutron Star?
by George Cronk January 14, 2020The new study finds that massive black holes and galaxies beyond their centres of most galaxies. New research team, from the University of Bath, Northwestern University, the Open University of Israel, Harvard University, California State University in Sacramento, the Max…
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“Our goal is to see if we can find a planet that is similar to Earth-one that can support life”, Professor Scott Gaudi, a researcher at Ohio State University, said in a statement. A coronagraph is a device that blocks…
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Outer space
China Has Successfully Launched Its Long March 5 Rocket
by George Cronk December 27, 2019China on Friday ( Dec 27 ) launched one of the world’s most powerful rocket, which is designed to carry 25 tons of payload into low orbit, with the aim of launching a Mars in 2020. China on Friday launched…
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Physics and Astronomy
Because The Net Force Exactly Opposes The Gravitational Force
by George Cronk December 21, 2019For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, so then a small force pushes back on the spacecraft in the opposite direction-forward! For the new research showed that unstable three-body systems will eventually expel one of the trio,…
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Outer space
Our Solar System Contains Two Major Classes Of Planets
by George Cronk December 21, 2019Here’s how NASA plans to track down alien life-in our solar system and beyond. Many astrophysicists and astronomers are convinced that it’s not a matter of if we ‘ll find life – it’s when. This puts TRAPPIST-1g in the cards…
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Like parents witnessing their baby’s first precious steps, engineers with NASA’s Mars 2020 mission have driven their fancy new rover for the very first time, in an important test of the space agency’s next Martian explorer. The Mars 2020 launch…
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Physics and Astronomy
Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Illustrated Above | World Magnetic Model Update
by George Cronk December 18, 2019In the recent past, the magnetic North Pole has moved 34 miles a year toward Russia. The magnetic field reverses its polarity every several hundred thousand years, where the magnetic north pole resides at the geographic South Pole. New work…
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Since 2012, the European Space Agency has been working on the design of a mission to remove large space debris from orbit. A space ‘tow truck’ (artist’s impression, pictured) designed to remove dead satellited from Earth’s orbit has been commissioned…