Category Archives: Science News

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OSIRIS-REx’s SRC is Back: Snapshots from Utah 0 (0)

An ‘up’ side to my parish’s new Mass schedule is that it gets me back home a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. Usually. Today we had a baptism, so it was about 9:30 when I returned. But that left me … Continue reading

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UAPs/UFOs: Collect Data, THEN Draw Conclusions 0 (0)

…NASA’s new UAP report, attitudes, assumptions; and, finally, … the legacy of “Killers from Space”…. Continue reading

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Silly Headlines and Space Aliens, Serious Science and UAPs 0 (0)

Monday, I wondered what I was going to write about this week. Then I read that scientists found methane and carbon dioxide in a not-really-Earth-like planet’s atmosphere — and saw a silly headline or two. Normally, that’d be more than … Continue reading

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Yellowstone: Geysers, Quakes and, Eventually, a Supereruption 0 (0)

I started writing about Yellowstone, hazards, and science a few weeks ago. Then life happened — there’s a link near the end of this post — something more timely came up, and now I’m back with a look at the … Continue reading

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India: Fourth on the Moon, First near Lunar South Pole 0 (0)

India became the fourth nation to land on Earth’s Moon this week. And the first to land near the Lunar south pole. This is a very big deal. So, in a different way, was the “abnormal situation” that turned Russia’s … Continue reading

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