Planets form in organic soups with different ingredients

Interesting article found on Mastodon, scientists have mapped the chemical composition of planetary nurseries. Looks like I have quite a bit of reading to do, as there are 3 papers linked to this article.

I have included the usual links to the original article & discourse discussion.

Links

• Science Daily Article
• Discourse Discussion
• Qoto Mastodon Discussion
• Discourse

Tags

#Astronomy,#AstroChemistry,#Planetary,#Discs,#Science,#ScienceDaily,#Articles,#Papers,#Research

Citations

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “Planets form in organic soups with different ingredients: A series of new images reveals that planets form in organic soups — and no two soups are alike.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 September 2021

Astrology versus Astronomy: What's the Difference, Really?

This is the September public lecture from the Space Telescope Science Institute

Location: Online Attendance Only Date ; September 7 2021 Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Links

• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Lecture page
• Discourse Discussion

Tags

#Science,#Space,#stsci,#Telescope,#Astronomy,#Astrology

Open Access Video

This is an interesting video on open access to research. Making research papers cheaper and easier to access for people.

Another related post

Links

• IOP Publishing on Open Access
• Discourse Discussion
• CodeBerg – Open Science repository
  • CodeBerg

Tags

#Science,#Journal,#Paper,'#OpenAccess,#Publishing

Another Step for Open Access in the UK

More good news here, better access to science journals. This will be most welcome, especially given if it is publicly funded research.

I have quoted the first paragraph from [1] and added the latter part of this which is a link to Science Mag as [2] in the links list.

The UK is already a leader in achieving open access for journal articles but have recently taken a further step. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a major funder of UK research, has announced that starting in April 2022, researchers receiving support from their £8 billion annual fund [2]

Links

1 Article 2 ScienceMag.org

Tags

#UK,#Science,#Journals,#OpenAccess

Can The Human Body Handle Rotating Artificial Gravity?

Another interesting item posted to Mastodon

Artificial gravity for spaceflight is a concept older than spaceflight itself, but we've only ever seen one small scale test ever flown in space. However decades of research have been performed to show that the human body can adapt to the conditions required for rotating artificial gravity. 

There is a video on youtube, along with a discussion on Mastodon. Links below.

Video here

Links

• Qoto Mastodon
• Qoto discussion

Tags

#Science,#Space,#Artificial,#Gravity

Scientists Have Measured Earth's Ancient Magnetic Field From Stone Age Artifacts

This looks like a really useful breakthrough and will allow more study of the magnetic field around earth at different times through out Earths history. and will help predict how the field may change in the future too.

• Article
• ScieceAlert

#ScienceAlert #Science #News and #Amazing #Breakthroughs #bot

First look at the IPCC climate report

An interesting article [1] examining the recent IPCC [2] report on climate change, highlighting six of the most important takeaways from this. The full report is at [3] while I have set up a discussion on discourse at [4]

Links

1 First look at Climate Change Report 2 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 3 Sixth Assessment report 4. Discourse Discussion

Tags

#IPCC,#Climate,#Science,#Earth,#Report,

New evidence of a large cold spot partly causing dimming of Betelgeuse

This is another interesting item found on the Fediverse. It seems Betelgeuse is still active. It does appear that there are different ideas as to why this is happening

If Betelgeuse does go Super Nova then this activity may give clues to how stars can behave before hand, giving indications to future events that can be studied more closely perhaps.

I have added a discourse link in case anyone would like to comment further generally.

I have downloaded the paper for this, from Nature Communications.

Links

• Arts Technica Article
• Nature Communications paper
• Discourse Discussion

Tags

#Science,#Astronomy,.#Research,#Papers,#Betelgeuse,#Dimming

15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice

Another interesting article from Science Daily [1] [2]

Summary:
    Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses, which survived because they had remained frozen, are unlike any viruses that have been cataloged to date. 

So if life can exist in these extreme environments on Earth, could life also exist on other planets, moons in the solar system or Exoplanets and or Exomoons around other stars that have similar conditions.

“These are viruses that would have thrived in extreme environments,” said Matthew Sullivan, co-author of the study, professor of microbiology at Ohio State and director of Ohio State’s Center of Microbiome Science

So while the question of life out side of Earth is not the subject of this paper it does, for me at least, prompts the question could those conditions support life (even viruses) under any frozen surfaces.

I have created a discourse discussion for this [3]. The article is under Biology.

There is also a link here and on discourse to an explanation of 'habitable zone' means. [4] so this states “neither too hot nor too cold”

Links

1 Science Daily 2 Article Link 3 Discourse Link 4 Habitable zome

Tags

#Science,#Virus,#Cold,#Exoplanets,#Life,#Exomoons,#Questions

PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND SPACE: TEACHING SECONDARY SCIENCE

Just completed the above course with Future Learn. Hoping this will help me as a Teaching Assistant or Lab technician in a school.

Links

• FutureLearn

Tags

#Physics,#Astronomy,#Space,#Secondary,#Science,#Learning, #FutureLearn