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The Moon’s Comet-Like Tail Shoots Beams Across the Earth

Carl Sagan once said that the earth is just "a speck of dust floating in a ray of sunshine". He would probably be thrilled to know that at the time of a new moon, the earth is a speck of dust hanging in the tail of a moon.The moon, which…

Wyoming Coal Nation Pivots, Reluctantly, to Wind Farms

RAWLINS, Wyo. - Die unterirdische Kohleschicht half, Siedler in diesen schrubbigen, windgepeitschten Teil des südlichen Wyoming zu bringen, wo Generationen in den Minen einen festen Gehaltsscheck fanden und stolz darauf waren, die Nation…

How Inexperienced Are Electrical Automobiles?

The world's lithium is mined either in Australia or in salt marshes in the Andean regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Large amounts of groundwater are used to pump out the brine to suck up the water available to indigenous farmers and…

Why Do Virus Variants Have Such Bizarre Names?

20H / 501Y.V2.VOC 202012/02.B.1.351.Those were the charming names that scientists had suggested for a new variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa. The intertwined sequences of letters, numbers, and dots are of great…

As soon as Upon a Time on Mars

Three and a half billion years ago, waves and currents splashed across this dusty area on Mars now known as the Jezero Crater. On a nascent earth, chemistry coagulated towards the exalted state we call life.Astronomers, philosophers and…