The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade - undark.org
Nov 4, 2024 · I n the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era planes. Two other bases, Dyess in Texas and Whiteman in Missouri, will soon follow. By the 2030s, a total of five bases throughout the United States will host nuke-carrying bombers for the first ...
What Does It Mean to Be In the 'Post-Genomic' Age?
Dec 5, 2024 · A s 2025 approaches, we can expect the silver anniversary announcements on the completion of a draft of the human genome to be on their way. Many of the people who were involved are still alive and well known. Because of this, we will likely hear reflections from an ensemble cast of characters associated with the 2000 announcement, and those whose more contemporary work is linked to the study ...
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
Mar 6, 2024 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...
Book Review: Bringing the Universe Into Ever-Sharper Focus
Dec 6, 2024 · T he phrase Pillars of Creation became popular in 1995 when it was used to describe a striking deep space photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are enormous formations of interstellar gas and dust in a star-forming region of the Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation, thousands of light years from Earth.
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The Enigmatic Earthquake Hotspot in America’s Heartland
Jul 15, 2024 · T he first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.
People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why. - Undark …
Mar 11, 2024 · In 2022, Gentry and an interdisciplinary team of colleagues added to that body of research, publishing a study in the journal Time & Society that showed the rate of fatal motor-vehicle accidents was highest for people living in the far west of a time zone, where the sun rises and sets at least an hour later than on the eastern side. Chronobiology research shows that longer evening light can ...
In the Race for Space Metals, Companies Hope to Cash In
May 8, 2024 · I n April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s part of a new wave of would-be asteroid miners hoping to …
War’s Public Health Impacts Are Vast. Tallying Them Is Difficult.
Oct 16, 2024 · I n 2001, Nathalie Williams moved from her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon, to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and found work with the United Nations Population Fund, an agency focused on sexual and reproductive health. From the start, she recalls, odd things caught her attention: When a motorcycle tire burst on the street, everyone froze, suspecting gunfire.
Book Review: The Many Bounties of Collaboration in Nature
Nov 29, 2024 · Kimmerer’s book, the long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling 2013 essay collection “Braiding Sweetgrass,” is a novella-length meditation on the abundance that sharing and mutual exchange can create.A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, which is native to the Great Lakes region, Kimmerer grounds her worldview in traditions that resist attempts to quantify or hoard ...