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Deadly African Heat Wave Would Not Have Been Possible without Climate Change
CLIMATEWIRE | A blistering heat wave in West Africa that sent temperatures soaring over 110 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this month would not have been possible without climate change. That’s according to new research by the science consortium World Weather Attribution, which investigates the links between global warming and extreme weather events worldwide. Using a combination
The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Melba Phillips, who grew up on a farm in Indiana at the turn of the 20th century, was one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s first graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Together they discovered the Oppenheimer-Phillips process, which explained a particular kind of nuclear reaction. In this episode, we explain what that is, with
Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can’t Be Measured
In the past few years, I’ve moved more than once. Time and again, I have had to measure rooms or furniture and then check whether I can arrange everything just as I had planned. When we use a tape measure, folding rule or ruler, we don’t question whether the object we are measuring is measurable.
SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sample Return Mission
Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to private industry for ideas—perhaps with one specific company in mind By Jonathan O'Callaghan Ten tubes filled with precious samples from Mars lurk in this panoramic vista, each cached on the planet's surface by NASA's Perseverance Rover for future retrieval. How and when
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