For 50 Years Through six different Apollo missions, astronauts brought back to Earth 842 pounds of rocks and soil from the moon. On Monday, during a speech about the White House’s proposed 2020 budget, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that…
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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It seems that there is a conspiracy against reusability, such as the mythical “conspiracy of oil workers against electric vehicles”. In reality, conditions are dictated by the economy. The situation was best expressed by the head of the Ariane Group.…
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Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will not be involved in a plan to send two space tourists on a flight around the Moon and was not consulted about the project, the federal space agency said. This is a plain commercial…
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Physics and Astronomy
Under General Relativity, A Black Hole Is Inescapable
by George Cronk January 25, 2019We Just Got Lab Made Evidence Of Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Prediction About Black Holes. Nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon. The black hole is the background spacetime for a quantum field theory. the heart of…
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Outer space
Artist’s Concept Of The Cassini Orbiter Crossing Saturn’s Ring Plane
by George Cronk January 24, 2019One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe.…
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Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute in the UK have succeeded in making artificial channels just one atom in size for the first time. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Arkansas has found evidence…
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The universe is still full of mystery! The history of general relativity as a science is actually rather dismal. These elusive ripples in the fabric of space – time were first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. The galaxy…
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Outer space
Milky Way Black Hole | The Two Galaxies Will Inevitably Collide
by George Cronk January 8, 2019Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy’s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. For the first time, scientists have detected a gravitational wave produced by…
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Physics and Astronomy
Digital Quantum Computing | Today’s Computers Are Binary
by George Cronk January 7, 2019The feat is a step toward making quantum computing devices from silicon, the same material used in today’s smartphones and computers. The team created qubits from single electrons trapped in silicon chambers known as double quantum dots. Scientists have shown…
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Outer space
Navigating To The Far Side Poses A Unique Communications Challenge
by George Cronk January 7, 2019The rover touched the lunar surface at 10:22pm ( local time ) on Thursday, leaving a trace on the soft, snow-like surface. After reaching a predetermined point, the Yutu-2 rover has entered a standby mode to protect itself from temperatures…