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I think posts in this list have a significant ‘science’ focus. Your experience may vary:
- “WISPIT 2b: Giant Planet Growing in a Distant Gap”
(October 2, 2025) - “Remembering the Other American Astronomical Society”
(March 29, 2025) - “Aftershock II: USC Students Reaching for the Stars”
(November 21, 2024) - “SpaceX Starship Sixth Test Flight: Still Exciting”
(November 19, 2024) - “Skylon Defunct, Radian PFV01 Test Flights Begin”
(November 16, 2024) - “Vega, a Closer Look: Smooth Disc, No Planets, Starspots”
(November 9, 2024) - “Surrounded by Beauty and Wonders: T Tauri Stars and Nebulae”
(November 2, 2024) - “Porphyrion: Black Hole Jets on a Cosmic Scale”
(October 5, 2024) - “Neanderthals: Sensible, Decent Homebodies; and My Ancestors”
(September 28, 2024) - “A Big Diamond, a Little History, and Some Geology”
(August 31, 2024) - “Squishy Stars, Science, and Sirach”
(August 24, 2024) - “Eyeball Planets, Lobster Oceans? Studying Exoplanet Climates”
(August 10, 2024) [like my June 8, 2024, post, more tech than science: but in this list for the same reasons] - “Marshmallows in Space! New Habitat Technology, Old Science”
(August 3, 2024) [like my June 8, 2024, post, more tech than science: but in this list for the same reasons] - “Hurricane Beryl: Sort-of-Good News, and Taking the Long View”
(July 13, 2024) - “Animals, Consciousness, and Conscience”
(June 29, 2024) - “Starliner, Dream Chaser, and Beyond: The Sky is Not the Limit”
(June 8, 2024) [more technology and economics than science: but what’s happening will help us study this universe] - “Alcubierre Drive: a New, Subluminal, Physical Solution”
(June 1, 2024) - “Science, Religion, and Saying Goodbye to the 19th Century”
(May 25, 2024) [more history and cultural baggage than science: but I think remembering what century we’re in is a good idea] - “A Super-Earth With an Air About It: 55 Cancri e, Janssen”
(May 18, 2024) - “Kamoʻoalewa: Breakaway Asteroid and Quasi-Moon”
(April 27, 2024) - “Voyager 1: Back Online, Still Outward Bound”
(April 23, 2024) - “Evolution and a Gene Expression Code Library”
(April 20, 2024) - “Eclipse 2024: Science, the News, Faith, and Me”
(April 6, 2024) - “Half-Million-Year-Old Structure: Rethinking Cavemen, Origins”
(March 9, 2024) - “Any Landing You Can Radio Back From: IM-1 Odyssey”
(March 2, 2024) - “Hearing the Universe, Touching the Stars”
(February 24, 2024) - “The Cabrières Biota: an Ordovician Snapshot”
(February 17, 2024) - “Jezero Sediment, TOI-715 b: Headlines and Extraterrestrial Life”
(February 10, 2024) - “T. Rex, or Not T. Rex, That is the Question”
(January 13, 2024) - “Colliding Planets Near ASASSN-21qj: Maybe”
(January 6, 2024) - “Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope”
(December 24, 2023) - “Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A: Cool Images of Hot Gas”
(December 16, 2023) - “Medieval Monkish Medicine: Scientific Before Science was a Thing”
(November 14, 2023) - “Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation”
(October 21, 2023) - “Sednoids and the Mysterious Missing Planet X”
(October 14, 2023) - “Double Jupiters, a JuMBO Puzzle; Antimatter Falls Down”
(October 7, 2023) - “OSIRIS-REx’s SRC is Back: Snapshots from Utah”
(September 24, 2023) - “UAPs/UFOs: Collect Data, THEN Draw Conclusions”
(September 23, 2023) - “Silly Headlines and Space Aliens, Serious Science and UAPs”
(September 16, 2023) - “Yellowstone: Geysers, Quakes and, Eventually, a Supereruption”
(September 2, 2023) - “India: Fourth on the Moon, First near Lunar South Pole”
(August 26, 2023) - “India’s Goal: Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon”
(August 23, 2023) - “Another Prescription SNAFU / Yellowstone: USGS Video”
(August 19, 2023) - “Frog and Spider are Friends”
(August 5, 2023) - “Fusion Rocket Engines, SETI and Science: Seriously”
(July 29, 2023) - “Back to Betelgeuse, Methenium in Orion, TRAPPIST-1 Update”
(July 1, 2023) - “Good Nutrition, Radioactive Breakfast Cereal”
(June 24, 2023) - “NASA, UAPs, UFOs and a Bart Simpson Balloon”
(June 17, 2023) - “WASP-18 b and Other Wonderfully Weird WASP Worlds”
(June 10, 2023) - “Super-Duper Super Earths and the Search for Life”
(May 27, 2023) - “International Space Station: Seven More Years”
(May 6, 2023) - “TRAPPIST-1 and the Mysterious Pea Pod Planets”
(April 8, 2023) - “TRAPPIST-1 b Measured by Webb: Hot, Airless”
(April 1, 2023) - “Active Volcano on Venus: Before and After Images”
(March 25, 2023) - “Peril in Orion! Beware Betelgeuse?”
(March 18, 2023) - “Edited Twins, Genetic Engineering and Bioethics”
(March 11, 2023) - “Galaxies, Gravity and a Hot Terrestrial Planet”
(February 25, 2023) - “Ancient Stone Tools: Hello, Fellow Humans?”
(February 18, 2023) - “Exoplanets, Dust, and Who Sees Data First?”
(February 11, 2023) - “Two Nearby Habitable(?) Worlds; Elements for Life”
(February 4, 2023) - “Stars, Galaxies, XBONGs and Me”
(January 21, 2023) - “Mars, MOXIE and More”
(January 14, 2023) - “A Doomed World, Spiraling to Destruction”
(January 7, 2023) - “Horses and Humans, Chimps and Muscles”
(December 31, 2022) - “Exoplanets, Air, and the Marshmallow Planet”
(December 10, 2022) - “JWST: Names, Claims and Attitudes”
(December 3, 2022) - “Georgia O’Keefe, a Light, the Moon and a Steeple”
(November 26, 2022) - “Climate, Neighbors, Bogeymen and Responsibility”
(November 5, 2022) - “DART: Trick Shot by OpNav, and a Successful Test”
(October 22, 2022) - “The Mars Mission That Hasn’t Happened Yet: 1954”
(October 15, 2022) - “DART Mission, Successful Planetary Defense Test; What’s Next”
(October 1, 2022) - “Back to the Moon, Onward to Mars: Artemis I”
(September 3, 2022) - “Meanwhile, Back on Mars, New Dust Storm Data”
(August 20, 2022) - “Green Sahara, Environmental and Climate News”
(July 30, 2022) - “Trace Signals From an Alien Civilization: Not So FAST?”
(June 25, 2022) - “Curiosity and Science, Intent and Wisdom 11:22”
(June 4, 2022) - “TAE and ITER: A Few Steps Closer to Fusion Power”
(May 21, 2022) - “Exoplanets, Iron, Evolution and Strange Geochemistry”
(January 22, 2022) - “Big Planet, Wide Orbit, Unsolved Mystery: b Centauri(AB)b”
(December 18, 2021) - “A Star by Any Other Name, and a Galilean Interlude”
(November 13, 2021) - “Science, Religion, COVID-19 and an Unexpected Opinion”
(November 8, 2021) - “HD 63935: Two Sub-Neptunes and Maybe More”
(October 23, 2021) - “A Trilobite With a Hyper-Compound Eye”
(October 16, 2021) - “TESS, Three Stars and a Planet’s Odd Orbit”
(October 2, 2021) - “Supernova Requiem: Reruns From a Gravity Lens”
(September 18, 2021) - “Evolution: Science, Religion, Opinions and Me”
(August 28, 2021) - “Robots on Mars, an Empty Sample Tube and a Laser”
(August 14, 2021) - “Perseverance Landing: Pictures From JPL and Mars”
(February 19, 2021) - “Perseverance on Mars: February 18, 2021”
(February 18, 2021) - “Exploring Mars, Looking for Life: and Still Learning”
(February 14, 2021) - “Seeking Strange New Worlds, Life and Civilizations”
(January 16, 2021) - “My Top 10 Science News Stories For 2020”
(December 29, 2020) - “New COVID-19 Vaccines: Goodish News, Ethical Issues”
(December 16, 2020) - “COVID-19, Cells, Viruses and mRNA Vaccines”
(December 5, 2020) - “Arecibo Radio Telescope 1963-2020”
(November 21, 2020) - “Religion and Science: Different Paths to Reality”
(November 14, 2020) - “Back from the Hospital: The Masked Minnesotan Rides Again”
(October 5, 2020) - “Demo-2’s Rescheduled Launch”
(May 30, 2020) - “Another Small Step: Demo-2”
(May 29, 2020) - “Pandemic Perspectives”
(March 31, 2020) - “COVID-19: Pandemic”
(March 11, 2020) - “‘One Small Step’ in a Long Journey”
(July 20, 2019) - “Apollo 11, 50 Years Later”
(July 16, 2019) - “Commercial Spaceflight: Another Step”
(March 8, 2019) - “Space ‘Firsts:’ New Horizons, Chang’e-4”
(January 18, 2019) - “InSight on Mars: Now What?”
(November 30, 2018) - “Where Have All the People Gone?”
(November 23, 2018) - “ʻOumuamua: Data, Questions”
(November 10, 2018) - “Earth’s Moon: Heat, Stir – – –”
(November 5, 2018) - “An Exomoon, Science and Truth”
(October 18, 2018) - “Disasters, Deaths, Decisions”
(September 17, 2018) - “Found: a ‘Baby Planet’”
(July 14, 2018) - “Power and Climate”
(July 1, 2018) - “Brains and Ethics”
(May 2, 2018) - “Evolution and Tools”
(March 26, 2018) - “Early Birds, Unisex Fish”
(March 9, 2018) - “Art, Evolution and Aquinas”
(March 2, 2018) - “Oxygen, Alien Life”
(February 23, 2018) - “Mars and Beyond”
(February 16, 2018) - “Firestorm Comet?”
(February 9, 2018) - “Smoke and Monkeys”
(February 2, 2018) - “Chasing Butterflies and Truth”
(January 19, 2018) - “Alien Life: Notions and Research”
(January 8, 2018) - “Science and Religion”
(January 12, 2018) - “Alien Life: Notions and Research”
(January 8, 2018) - “Science in 2017”
(December 28, 2017) - “Off the Rails”
(December 22, 2017) - “California Fires, 2017”
(December 15, 2017) - “No More Sunspots?”
(December 8, 2017) - “Still Seeking Earth 2.0”
(December 1, 2017) - “Visitor from the Stars”
(November 24, 2017) - “Antarctic ‘Hot’ Spots”
(November 17, 2017) - “Science, Faith, and Me”
(November 5, 2017) - “A Century of Science”
(November 3, 2017) - “Love. And Science”
(October 29, 2017) - “Swatting Fast Flies”
(October 27, 2017) - “LIGO/Virgo: Another First”
(October 20, 2017) - “Finding New Worlds”
(October 13, 2017) - “Einstein’s Waves: New Views”
(October 6, 2017) - “Planet 9, Maybe; Nibiru, No”
(September 29, 2017) - “Values and Ichthyosaurs”
(September 22, 2017) - “Cassini-Huygens Mission”
(September 15, 2017) - “More Disasters”
(September 10, 2017) - “Labor Day SETI”
(September 8, 2017) - “Floods, Harvey, and Climate”
(September 1, 2017) - “Harvey Over Texas”
(August 30, 2017) - “Great American Eclipse 2017”
(August 25, 2017) - “Editing Genes, Ethically”
(August 18, 2017) - “Sane Environmentalism”
(August 11, 2017) - “A Mixed Bag”
(August 4, 2017) - “Fukushima, Six Years Later”
(July 28, 2017) - “Adam and the Animals”
(July 23, 2017) - “Using Vaccines Wisely”
(July 21, 2017) - “Climate Change, Attitudes”
(July 14, 2017) - “Misusing Opioids”
(July 7, 2017) - “Exoplanet Frontier”
(June 30, 2017) - “Old Truths, New Aspects”
(June 23, 2017) - “Oldest Human Fossils?”
(June 16, 2017) - “GSLV, Rocket Lab: Looking Good”
(June 9, 2017) - “New Worlds: The Search Continues”
(June 2, 2017) - “Climate Change, Whirligig Icebergs”
(May 26, 2017) - “Ammonites, Dinosaurs, and Us”
(May 19, 2017) - “Good Intentions”
(May 12, 2017) - “First Americans?”
(May 5, 2017) - “Repeatable Results That Aren’t”
(April 28, 2017) - “Looking for Life: Enceladus and Gliese 1132 b”
(April 21, 2017) - “Mars: Leaky Red Planet”
(April 14, 2017) - “Pesticides in the Water”
(April 7, 2017) - “DNA and Cancer”
(March 31, 2017) - “Knowledge: Opening the Gift”
(March 26, 2017) - “Baryons, Gravity Waves”
(March 24, 2017) - “Fast Radio Bursts”
(March 17, 2017) - “Earliest Life: Maybe”
(March 10, 2017) - “TRAPPIST-1: Water? Life??”
(March 3, 2017) - “Face Transplant at Mayo”
(February 24, 2017) - “Pollution: Still Learning”
(February 17, 2017) - “Bogs and Bison”
(February 10, 2017) - “Footprints in Ancient Ash”
(February 3, 2017) - “Gems, Metal, and Earth’s Core”
(January 27, 2017) - “Climate Change Continues”
(January 20, 2017) - “Urban Evolution and Big Brains”
(January 13, 2017) - “SETI: What If?”
(December 23, 2016) (The change of pace continues: learning about aliens might affect various religions; and speculation about ET.) - “Mars, Aliens, and SETI”
(December 16, 2016) (A change of pace: the Great Moon Hoax, Nicola Tesla, Martians, and life in the universe.) - “Tides and Our Moon’s Origin”
(December 9, 2016) - “KIC 8462852 and Strange Stars”
(December 2, 2016) - “Olive Threat, Ginkgo Genome”
(November 25, 2016) - “Brain Implants and Rewired Monkeys”
(November 18, 2016) - “Different Sorts of ‘Dead’ ”
(November 11, 2016) - “Near-Earth Asteroids”
(November 4, 2016) - “Right-Handedness and Evolving Jaws”
(October 28, 2016) - “Sweet Potatoes, Genes, and Long Life”
(October 21, 2016) - “Alchemy, Science, Life, and Health”
(October 16, 2016) - “Elastic Brains and New Tech”
(October 14, 2016) - “Bioethics and a Three-Parent Baby”
(October 7, 2016) - “Europa, Mars, and Someday the Stars”
(September 30, 2016) - “The Minden Monster, What Killed Lucy”
(September 23, 2016) - “Space Aliens and Life’s Ladder”
(September 18, 2016) - “ESA’s Gaia, HD 164695, and SETI”
(September 16, 2016) - “Philae, Jupiter, and Life”
(September 9, 2016) - “Proxima Centauri b, Looking for Life”
(September 2, 2016) - “Faith, the Universe, and Wisdom”
(August 28, 2016) - “Brogdar, Öetzi, and Piltdown Man”
(August 26, 2016) - “Polio, Zika, and Using Our Brains”
(August 21, 2016) - “Earth Overshoot Day and Pollinators”
(August 12, 2016) - “Bulldogs, Transgenics, and a Robot”
(August 5, 2016) - “Studying Thousands of New Worlds”
(July 29, 2016) - “Early Agriculture, New Tech”
(July 22, 2016) - “Sandra and Tommy: Apes and Ethics”
(July 15, 2016)
More of the same, from A Catholic Citizen in America on Blogger
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