No surprises here for me, but a very nicely done summary and very stimulating. Read more
Isaac Schultz
isaacschultz
Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
Well, we’re doing a better job of reconstructing them now than we used to do.
Excellent read!
Tiny man made of neutron star material painstakingly climbs nearly a millimeter and shouts: “I’m king of the star! I’m king of the star! Wow! The view from here is amazing!” Read more
Jupiter has a phalanx of Trojans, but Lucy (named for the fossil hominin, itself named for the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) is targeting just seven of them for flybys over the course of 12 years. Read more
Fun Fact. I designed and helped build one of the instruments onboard the spacecraft.
“Sry we fucked u ovr” <eggplant emoji><water drops emoji><laughing emoji> <grimacing face emoji>
I’m all for the goals stated here, but how do we drastically increase the amount of affordable housing while also replacing or heavily modifying virtually every aspect of existing housing? If I own a building with 100 residential units, I’m going to find it challenging to replace the heating and cooling system, roof,… Read more
I understand. What I’m saying is that there was a point in time where I thought a gas stove for home cooking was the only choice and electrics in any form were for boiling water. Read more
No one will let us in San Diego live that down. Not even us natives.
The only real issue with gas (besides the fact that some people can’t seem to get the hang of their speed ie. My ex) is ventilation. You really do need to have active, strong venting. Read more
I’d add better sound insulation, so you don’t hear your neighbors making unpleasant sounds.
Have to take my hat off to Indian conservationists. They face such an uphill struggle but they never give up.
“Other ground temperatures in the region included [...] 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius) in Saskylah” Read more
It helps take the load from Uranus.
Besides helping elucidate our own planet’s history it will help understand terrestrial planets at large. Nature has an interesting article listing questions [”How three missions to Venus could solve the planet’s biggest mysteries”]: Read more
Venus is easily in my top 10 sweetest planets in this solar system.
Science needs more of this. Read more
Nope! It most certainly cannot. I won’t have it. Nope.
“The team also found that baby coelacanths stay in the womb for five years” Read more