December 8, 2022. Exploding white dwarf stars are thought to be the ultimate source of much of our solar system’s lithium. But on Earth, there are certain environments where the soft, light,...
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ITER, FRANCE. Nuclear Fusion for Clean Energy. The year that was. Headlines and a shared Ideal.
In the very last days of the year 2021, the European JET, the largest of all operating tokamaks, achieved a first-ever sustained, high-confinement plasma and practically doubled its 1997 energy production...
August 24, 2022. City University of New York (CUNY). The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world....
Today’s Image of the Day is part of a series highlighting wintertime photographs of Earth shot by astronauts on the International Space Station. The St. Lawrence River cuts across...
A powerful Arctic cold front battered the Midwest and eastern U.S. in late-December 2022. The storm brought blizzard conditions to some areas, life-threatening cold to others, and daunting amounts...
. Mar Chiquita in central Argentina is a shallow, salty, and variable lake. When the water level is high, the lake covers as much as 6,000 square kilometers (2,300...
November 18, 2022. By Sam Illingworth Diamond discscut the waves,spiralled finssplitting surfwith graceful sizeand measured ease.Submerged,shifted,subdued.Tracing historieswith photographs,each exposurea pinpoint;patterns of lifeagainst the safeand unmolested seas. This poem is inspired by recent...
The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal...
October 29th. TO November 28th. The world’s largest active volcano—Hawaii’s Mauna Loa—has been quiet for the past four decades. But in November 2022, the volcano began to stir.The first signs...
Researchers head toward the calving front of Bowdoin Glacier in northwestern Greenland on 21 July 2019 to deploy an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS). Photo, Evgeny A. Podolskiy. The successful...