I Really Appreciate Science

By Daryl Austin| Aug 4, 2022 9 p.m. MDT, for The Deseret News “Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a bill to end federal prohibitions on marijuana put in place when Congress made the drug illegal more than 50 years ago. “Attitudes toward cannabis use have fluctuated greatly in the last century.…

By Dr Beck If you ever wanted a view of what the future might look like if an articulate, intelligent woman of color was given the reigns of power, that vision was present. If you just were hoping for bits of insight on where technology is headed that too was present. But if you wanted…

Breakthrough research YOU can be a part of with the right motivation and degreed optimisim at my former lab, Battelle-PNNL. By Dr Beck Research that supports quantum computing, simulation, communication, and sensing is at the core of PNNL’s quantum information science (QIS) strategy. Their approach is one of co-design, where advances in the fundamental understanding…

Dr Beck Thinking of purchasing your first EV? Some things to know. They are safer cars; they are faster cars; they are super tech with cameras everywhere outside the vehicle giving a birds-eye view to the drivers and emergency help a finger touch away. They are inexpensive to run (think no oil changes nor transmissions).…

“Launch continues to target no earlier than Monday, August 29th at 8:33 a.m. EDT. You can watch the broadcast here starting at 6:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, August 29. Want to know the times in your location? See the launch and launch broadcast times.As countdown approaches, here’s some great mission content: “Get Excited! Be sure mark your calendar! During this flight, the…

under SRES A1B conditions ‘Global Agricultural Land Resources – A High Resolution Suitability Evaluation and Its Perspectives until 2100 under Climate Change Conditions’: Florian Zabel*, Birgitta Putzenlechner, Wolfram Mauser: PLOS ABSTRACT “Changing natural conditions determine the land’s suitability for agriculture. The growing demand for food, feed, fiber andbioenergy increases pressure on land and causes trade-offs…

Xueying Li, Di Long, …Guangqian Wang. Nature Climate Change (2022)Cite this article 15AUG22 Abstract “Terrestrial water storage (TWS) over the Tibetan Plateau, a major global water tower, is crucial in determining water transport and availability to a large downstream Asian population. Climate change impacts on historical and future TWS changes, however, are not well quantified.…

By Dr Beck When Carl Sagan spoke on Global Warming, the first President Bush was organizing the mid-term elections of his party. I was finishing up my post-doc at Penn with Prof Dr Marsha I Lester. It was 1990, 34 years after the Republican scientist (Dr David Keeling) from Scripps Institute in San Diego first…

By Sarah Scoles, for SCIENCE “NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission was brutish and short. It began on 9 October 2009, when the hull of a spent Centaur rocket stage smashed into Cabeus crater, near the south pole of the Moon, with the force of about 2 tons of TNT. And it ended…