From misinformed politicians who should ‘shut up’, to a failure of large parts of society to grasp reality, climate scientists reveal their bugbears http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/jun/26/what-really-annoys-scientists-about-the-state-of-the-climate-change-debate The whole article is
Easily one of the most important lectures I’ve ever seen. We know the solutions already – but we’re not willing to consider actually implementing them.
This fantastic series by Houston Chronicle science writer Eric Berger examines the past and future of NASA. Part 1: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nasa/adrift/1/ Part 2: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nasa/adrift/2/ Part 3: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/nasa/adrift/3/
Imagine pulling apart steel cargo ships by hand for ten hours a day… for many Bangladeshi workers, this is a grim reality The Ship-breakers of Chittagong from Karishma
Anthropogenic litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote points in the oceans. On the seafloor, marine litter, particularly plastic, can accumulate in
Scientists have cooked up a new time-lapse simulation of the universe’s evolution, a computerized view that shows how the cosmos may have looked over the course of billions
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the US Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost
Today I learned about airplane black boxes–or more precisely, flight data and cockpit voice recorders. After speaking with a couple of aircraft crash investigators who specialize in deep
Decompression sickness (DCS; also known as divers’ disease, the bends or caisson disease) describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the
