Science

For not fully understood reasons, conditions for the Big Bang were met about 13.8 billion years ago.  This unfathomable event set off a series of reactions.  Evidence of the reaction’s aftermath is observable even today.  For instance, according to NASA, we can still see the heat that was there roughly 380,000 years after the expansion of the universe (13.42 billion years a

The world is just a few days removed from the 2024 solar eclipse, and some have already booked their flights and places to stay for the next one.  It will happen on August 12, 2026 and will be visible in Greenland, western Iceland, and northern Spain.  Happening in August, the event is more than two years away, yet we know when it will occur because of math.

Do you have a favorite constellation?  I do: Orion.  I cannot explain why, but it brings me so much pleasure when it begins appearing in the night sky each year.  The formation has been on my mind lately because it is starting to say goodbye until reemerging in the fall.  On Wednesday it dawned on me that Betelgeuse was back to full brightness after an event now known as the

Unsure if we could use the name of a Beatles song as a title for a note to our audience, Atlas went with Doo-doo-doo-doo, but make no mistake, here comes the sun.  Our planet’s original energy source is spewing solar winds our direction and a second round of them could be arriving today!  Just last week scientists at NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory spotted a coronal hole

Petri dish metaphors are totally appropriate for an economics-oriented note during a global pandemic.  Julius Richard Petri invented the eponymously named Petri dish.  This simple tool is used along with a growth medium to culture cells of things like mosses, yeasts, bacteria, and fungi.

Scientific laws are both derived and sustained by generations of repeated observations of natural phenomena.  Physical sciences are founded on the unveiling of these laws.  In other words, something like chemistry or geology wasn’t invented but discovered.  That doesn’t mean scientists don’t postulate about yet-to-be discovered phenomena, but until an idea is em

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