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Trump’s Personality Cult Plays a Part in His Political Appeal

Scientific American.com - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 7:00am

Personality measures suggest Donald Trump exerts a cult of personality over his followers, people who are psychologically susceptible to his appeal. This could help explain how he has succeeded in U.S. politics while other populists have not

Categories: Astronomy

16 best places to see the 2027 total solar eclipse

Space.com - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 6:00am
Here are the best scenic spots and ideal locations across Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to see the total solar eclipse on Aug. 2, 2027.
Categories: Astronomy

Glitching radio waves from dead stars explained by swirling superfluid

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 6:00am
Pulsars that emit radio waves “glitch” as they rotate – this seems to be caused by interruptions to swirling vortices inside these ultra-dense stars
Categories: Astronomy

Mission complete for ESA’s OPS-SAT flying laboratory

ESO Top News - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 5:00am

ESA’s experimental OPS-SAT CubeSat mission came to an end during the night of 22—23 May 2024 (CEST).

Categories: Astronomy

Diet-monitoring AI tracks your each and every spoonful

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 4:00am
An AI that watches you while you eat can estimate how much you’re consuming, and could help people track their calorie intake
Categories: Astronomy

Ancient snake drawings are among the largest known rock art worldwide

New Scientist Space - Cosmology - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 8:01pm
Rock art along the Orinoco river in South America is made up of some of the largest etchings we know of and could date back 2000 years
Categories: Astronomy

Ancient Snake and Centipede Carvings in South America Are among World’s Largest Rock Engravings

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 7:01pm

Enormous engraved rock art of anacondas, rodents and other animals along the Orinoco River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been used to mark territory 2,000 years ago

Categories: Astronomy

China’s Chang’e 6 Probe Lands on Far Side of the Moon

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 2:30pm

The Chang’e 6 mission is China’s second to touch down on the lunar far side and will retrieve samples for analysis on Earth

Categories: Astronomy

World’s Largest Known Genome Discovered in Small, Unassuming Fern

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 2:00pm

A small South Pacific fern boasts more than 50 times as many base pairs as the human genome

Categories: Astronomy

Fauci Faces Congressional Committee over COVID E-mails

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 11:30am

Anthony Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases early in the COVID pandemic, is facing a congressional committee about questionable e-mails from agency officials

Categories: Astronomy

Why Bird Flu Is Causing Eye Infections in Dairy Workers

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 11:00am

Three U.S. dairy workers have been infected with H5N1 after contact with sick cows, and all of them developed eye symptoms

Categories: Astronomy

500-Pound Prehistoric Bird Was a ‘Giga-Goose,’ Fossils Reveal

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 10:31am

Scientists reveal the face of Australia’s massive, extinct “giga-goose”

Categories: Astronomy

First metal 3D printing on Space Station

ESO Top News - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 9:15am
Image: First metal 3D printing on Space Station
Categories: Astronomy

How Tobacco Companies Use Chemistry to Get around Menthol Bans

Scientific American.com - Mon, 06/03/2024 - 9:00am

Regulating chemicals one-by-one has allowed the tobacco industry to skirt menthol bans by creating new additives with similar effects but unclear safety profiles

Categories: Astronomy

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NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record

Earth News - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 4:05pm
The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Categories: NASA

NASA: El verano de 2023 es el más caluroso en el registro

Earth News - Thu, 09/14/2023 - 12:03pm
El verano boreal de 2023 fue el más caluroso para la Tierra desde que se establecieron registros mundiales de temperaturas en 1880, según un análisis realizado por científicos del Instituto Goddard de Estudios Espaciales (GISS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA en Nueva York.
Categories: NASA