Happy Wednesday, Aledan Merfolk! If you saw me online at all yesterday, I’m sure you know that PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION is finally out in the world! PSIF is an awesome resource for authors, covering topics from basic lab practices, to how the ocean can kill you (I’m excited for that one!), to the […]
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I have updates for you later this week or early next week, but since today is the first Tuesday of the month, it’s time for all of last month’s science news! (Yes, I missed February, but I’ll tell you why in my update post) Let’s go! Researchers discover hydrogen signature of
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Ok, so Science Tuesday is coming to you on a Thursday because I couldn’t get into my blog for two days (I’m not sure why, but it’s letting me today, so I’m just going to shrug and go with it). I know we’re all VERY EXCITED (or bafflingly pissed off) about the car in space,
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted a Science Tuesday, but since I’m focusing on science activism this year, I thought it was time to start it up again. I’m posting tons of science news from the past month, so get ready to have your mind blown by awesomeness. Incubation times for
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I obviously failed big-time at keeping up with weekly Science Tuesday posts, so I’m switching it up and posting this segment once a month instead of weekly. Enjoy all (ok, most) of June’s science news! Ancient geometric symbols may have been basis for writing Comet’s atmosphere contains amino acid needed for
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! It’s been a loooong time since we’ve had a Science Tuesday, and we’ve missed a lot of awesome science news, so let’s take a look at all the awesome things that happened in May, starting with ET! Intelligent extraterrestrial life likely exists Strange tail-less comet observed by researchers LHC gears up
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[Photo: Space Zinnia, Scott Kelly/NASA] Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I missed last week’s Science Tuesday, so we have two weeks worth of science news to catch up on. Let’s get to it. Philae lander not responding to scientists’ wake-up efforts: Scientists have tried one last time to awaken the Philae lander on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, but
Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! Science was a busy little bee this week, so let’s get straight to the news! [Photo: Praying Mantis with custom 3-D glasses, Newcastle University] Four new elements added to periodic table: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has filled out the seventh line of the periodic table by adding
Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I promised yesterday that Science Tuesday would be back, and so it is! And since Science doesn’t take holidays, there’s a lot to read. Enjoy 🙂 Metal-starved star with orbiting rocky planet discovered: A star with extremely low levels of heavy elements has been discovered with a rocky Neptune-sized planet orbiting
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Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I’m sure you already heard the news about processed meat and cancer, so I put that link all the way at the bottom today. Goodbye bacon, I never liked you much anyway (except Benton bacon, which is heavenly). First we’ll get to the rest of the science news before we mourn