Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2018 By: Tricia Talbert If you live in the western part of North America, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands, you might set your alarm early the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 31 for a lunar trifecta: a pre-dawn “super blue blood moon.” Beginning at 5:30 a.m. EST on[Read More…]
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Johns Hopkins Scientist Proposes New Definition of a Planet
MARYLAND—(ENEWSPF)—January 26, 2018 By: Phil Sneiderman Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status of massive objects outside our solar system. The dispute is not just about semantics, as[Read More…]
What Scientists Can Learn About the Moon During the Jan. 31 Eclipse
Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—January 23, 2018 By Elizabeth Zubritsky The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer’s equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera. Three lunar events will come together in an unusual overlap that’s being playfully called[Read More…]
Millions Drink Alcohol At Dangerously High Levels
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Millions of Americans drink alcohol at dangerously high levels. Are you one of these? Nearly 32 million adults in the United States (13 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 and older) consumed more than twice the number of drinks considered binge drinking on at least one occasion,[Read More…]
NOAA Kicks Off 2018 with Massive Supercomputer Upgrade
Faster computers with more storage will boost accuracy, efficiency of U.S. weather models Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018 By: Susan Buchanan NOAA’s combined weather and climate supercomputing system will be among the 30 fastest in the world, with the ability to process 8 quadrillion calculations per second, when two Dell systems[Read More…]
UChicago Study Finds Mass Extinctions Remove Species But Not Ecological Variety
Study could shed light on patterns for current mass extinction CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2018 By: Louise Lerner Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all the species on Earth, staggered and died. But in the seas, a colorful population of[Read More…]
Scientists Describe How Solar System Could have Formed in Bubble Around Giant Star
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 22, 2017 By: Louise Lerner Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system. Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in[Read More…]
Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star (Video)
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—December 15, 2017 By: Felicia Chou and Alison Hawkes Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler[Read More…]
Fossil That Fills Missing Evolutionary Link Named After UChicago Professors
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—November 17, 2017 By: Louise Lerner Lurking in oceans, rivers and lakes around the world are tiny, ancient animals known to few people. Bryozoans, tiny marine creatures that live in colonies, are “living fossils”—their lineage goes back to the time when multi-celled life was a newfangled concept. But until now,[Read More…]
UChicago Astrophysicists to Catch Particles from Deep Space on NASA Balloon Mission
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 24, 2017 By: Louise Lerner A team led by Prof. Angela Olinto was awarded NASA funding to fly an ultra-long duration balloon mission with an innovative ultra-sensitive telescope to pick up cosmic rays and neutrinos coming from deep space. Planned for launch in 2022, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory[Read More…]
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