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Google Science Feeds: Planting bulbs in the fall for spring cheer
Spring-flowering bulbs bring hope and something to look forward to during late winter. Seeing the first snow crocus peer through a blanket of snow makes me smile. To have the spring surprise, these plants need to be planted in the fall, which allows time for ...
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Google Science Feeds: Skywatch: Look for a kite and find the herdsman, Bootes
Sunday: Summer ends soon and another sign of that seasonal change is the constellation of Bootes. Bootes is the constellation of a herdsman, but it also resembles an ice cream cone or kite. At 9 p.m. the bottom of the cone or kite is marked by the bright star ...
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Google Science Feeds: NASA-Led Study Finds Emissions Could Add 15 Inches of Sea Level Rise By the Year 2100
(NASA) – An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean, and atmospheric scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth's melting ice sheets could have on global sea ...
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Google Science Feeds: The history of Mars exploration
During the last 5 decades, it has been visited by a number of satellites, landers and rovers. Together - this fleet has changed our understanding about the evolution of our Solar System and fuelled the quest for life beyond Earth. But what exactly have we ...
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Google Science Feeds: World's oldest sperm is around 100 million years old, and is trapped in amber
New Delhi: Scientists at the Queen Mary University of London and the Chinese Academy of Science have discovered the world's oldest animal sperm inside a tiny type of crustacean trapped in amber around 100 million years ago in Myanmar. The new ...
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Google Science Feeds: Scientists find oldest known animal sperm in the world
The oldest known animal sperm in the world has been discovered by a team of Chinese paleontologists along with their counterparts from Germany and Britain, reports Xinhua. The sperm came from a species of crustacean named ostracod, sometimes known ...
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Google Science Feeds: Shape matters for light-activated nanocatalysts
HOUSTON - (Sept. 18, 2020) - Points matter when designing nanoparticles that drive important chemical reactions using the power of light. Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have long known that a nanoparticle's shape ...
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Google Science Feeds: High-Severity Wildfires on the Rise in Northern California's Coastal Ranges Since 1984
From Berryessa to Klamath Mountains, High-Severity Burns Quadrupled During Warm Drought. High-severity wildfires in northern coastal California have been increasing by about 10 percent per decade since 1984, according to a study from the University of ...
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Google Science Feeds: Didier Raoult, France's Dr Data, claims new coronavirus strain is 'less dangerous'
France is seeing several new mutant strains of Covid-19 that appear more contagious but less dangerous than the original strain, according to one of the country's leading research hospitals into infectious diseases. The strains, identified by experts at IHU ...
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Google Science Feeds: Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites clutter the skies, frustrating astronomers
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's hundreds of satellites cluttering up the galaxy. A plethora of massive internet satellites launched by eco-friendly billionaire Elon Musk are swirling overhead — and astronomers are trying mightily to figure out how ...
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