Uplifting Echoes

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The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, because a 4.5-inch carbon-foam shield keeps the spacecraft in the shade - Space Daily

The Parker Solar Probe is still flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 miles per hour, fast enough to cross the continental United States in about 20 seconds, because a 4.5-inch carbon-foam shield keeps the spacecraft in the shade - Space Daily

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest object ever built, flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 mph while a 4.5-inch carbon foam shield keeps its instruments at room temperature against 2,500-degree heat.

There is a cloud of alcohol drifting through the constellation Aquila that is 1,000 times the diameter of our solar system and contains enough ethanol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer — and nobody has any commercial way to reach it, which is probably fo - Space Daily

There is a cloud of alcohol drifting through the constellation Aquila that is 1,000 times the diameter of our solar system and contains enough ethanol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer — and nobody has any commercial way to reach it, which is probably fo - Space Daily

In 1995, a team of British radio astronomers led by Dr Tom Millar pointed one of the world’s largest radio telescopes at a faint patch of sky in the constellation Aquila — the Eagle. What they found, somewhat improbably, was alcohol. Not a trace amount of it.…

Dormant volcano suddenly wakes up after 700,000 years of silence - Earth.com

Dormant volcano suddenly wakes up after 700,000 years of silence - Earth.com

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

30 years ago, Carl Sagan revealed exactly how a ‘charlatan’ leader could take over the U.S. - Yahoo

30 years ago, Carl Sagan revealed exactly how a ‘charlatan’ leader could take over the U.S. - Yahoo

Carl Sagan warned on Charlie Rose that America would be vulnerable to a charlatan leader without scientific skepticism.

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

Every year, 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic Ocean and settles on the Amazon rainforest, delivering roughly the exact amount of phosphorus the rainforest loses to runoff, which means the world's most productive forest is fertilised, year afte - Space Daily

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from t…

Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks - Nature

Forest carbon protocols underestimate climate-driven carbon loss risks - Nature

The buffer pool designed to compensate for unintended carbon losses from the largest forest climate mitigation programme in the United States is too small when considering the impact of future climate change scenarios.

Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. 'Things will get worse before they get better' - Space

Space debris is forcing satellites to dodge more often — costing us vital science. 'Things will get worse before they get better' - Space

"Each time a satellite has to maneuver to avoid a potential collision, it uses fuel which is a finite and precious resource."

A critical initialization for biological neural networks - Nature

A critical initialization for biological neural networks - Nature

Basic properties of symmetric random matrices can explain the emergence of macroscopic patterns in neural networks, suggesting that initialization conditions of connected neural populations may confer computational advantages across the mouse brain.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world - Ars Technica

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world - Ars Technica

As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."