Category: The Daily Beast
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Like a tiger’s stripes, Jupiter’s colorful bands are more than just pretty colors
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Jupiter: The Large Adult Son of the Solar System “We are really learning about a brand new Jupiter in many ways.” For The Daily Beast: Everything about Jupiter is…
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Looking for the fifth dimension with wrinkles in spacetime
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension? For The Daily Beast: In Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, the characters travel from one place to another…
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Finding mountains on distant alien worlds
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] How Astronomers Could Discover Mountains on Distant Planets Planets too far away to photograph could yield some clues to whether water—and maybe even life—could exist. For The Daily Beast:…
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Learning about weird star corpses from the way they shake
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] ‘Dwarfquakes’ Reveal the Future of Our Universe Dying stars were an enigma—until an astronomer measured seismic shifts on them, giving us clues about the sun’s future and the expansion…
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It ain’t aliens — but this weird-looking star is still interesting
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] We Haven’t Found Alien Megastructures… Yet The mystery formations and data discrepancies of Tabby’s Star turned out to have explanations. But that’s not what’s important about the mystery star.…
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Discovering new planets with artificial intelligence
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Thanks to Google AI, Astronomers Have Found New Planets They’re not habitable, but the dual discoveries change how we’re going to hunt for the next Earth. For The Daily…
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Using NASA science to count the world’s biggest fish
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A NASA Algorithm Can Save Endangered Whale Sharks Constellations of spots on these school bus-sized animals were hard to track, until now For The Daily Beast: Like too many…
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Don’t pull up stakes for the asteroid-mining gold rush
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Is Space Becoming a Gold Mine? A new law grants private companies ownership over the materials they extract from asteroids or the Moon. But don’t call it a gold…
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Ice volcanoes (and other mysteries) on Pluto!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Does Pluto Have Ice Volcanoes? That’s what some scientists believe. And it might have a heart, too For The Daily Beast: At the 47th Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)…
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A tribute to a great African-American planetary scientist
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Meet Claudia Alexander, NASA Badass Who Never Got Her Due In a field dominated by white men, Claudia Alexander was a pioneer For The Daily Beast: Comet 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko is…
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