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See A Crescent Moon As Northern Lights Surge: The Night Sky This Week - Forbes
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).
Academic journals and AI bleg - Marginal REVOLUTION
Given the rapid pace of advancement of AI, how should academic journals adapt to these changes? One issue might be an excess of submissions, but what other questions should be considered here? Which reforms should be made? Your thoughts would be most welcom…
Particles may not follow Einstein’s paths after all - ScienceDaily
Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of gravity, which explains the behavior of stars, planets, and the structure of the universe. Researchers at TU Wien have now taken a new step…
Astronomers Produce the Largest Image Ever Taken of the Heart of the Milky Way - Universe Today
Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), this rich dataset—the…
Scientists stunned to find signs of ancient life in a place no one expected - ScienceDaily
While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by sunlight-loving microbial mats in shallow waters. But the rocks formed…
This woman invented the cure to camera lens flare and you’ve probably never heard of her - Digital Camera World
This International Women’s Day we say thanks to Katharine Burr Blodgett, the inventor of non-reflective glass, crucial for stopping lens flare