One of the most remarkable photos ever taken. And it is impossible to comprehend the scale of it. Taken by Hubble, it is a jet of gas being fired out of a supermassive black hole. The jet is 3,000 light years long (1 light year = 6 trillion miles!). Full amazing story👉 mashable.com/article/blac...
How to engineer a habitable planet: the rise of marine ecosystem engineers through the Phanerozoic doi.org/10.1111/pala... 🧪⚒️🌊 Cribb & Darroch, 2024. "[T]hrough the Phanerozoic, it is clear that bioturbators and reef-building ecosystem engineers have had different trajectories over geological time"
keep thinking about my student last year from asheville who read that investors were buying up property there in expectation of it becoming a climate migration destination and she wrote her final paper about how that doesn't seem quite right given its flood risk history and maps like this one
Natural hazards exacerbated by climate change pose serious risks to property markets in the United States. Ignoring these risks could create instability in housing values. This research shows the magn...
Breathtaking new image of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) by Gerald Rhemann, Michael Jäger, and Dennis Möller. If you have clear skies & binoculars, why not take a look? If not, you can still revel in this fantastic shot. 🧪🔭 www.astrostudio.at/2_Bright%20C...
Sure you could take the obvious road and pick the sparkly mineral. But how about fighting for the underdog! It might not glitter but it does look EXACTLY LIKE HAM! Vote Rhodochrosite, the Forbidden Bacon, to win the Mineral Cup! www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r5m1#mincup24
The dance may have been done as a joke, but there are some serious moves in it!
Let's all praise Matt Geiler, who put on a pumpkin mask and did a silly dance in 2006 to fill some dead air time, and thus brought decades of joy to millions of people.
ALT: a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery
I wrote about how the U.S. needs a disaster corps. Infuse mutual aid with federal cash. Give thousands of people jobs pre-fortifying and rebuilding houses. We keep falling into these disaster traps, and there's so much room for harm reduction. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Mutual aid keeps communities afloat in the moments after disasters strike. Why not turn it into a jobs program?
By the end of this month, the UK will bring its 142-year coal-powered era to an end with the closure of its last remaining plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Carbon Brief looks at how the UK became the first G7 country to completely phase out coal power.
