Lord Kelvin, Perry, and the Age of the Earth
The reason Lord Kelvin got the age of the earth wrong was not because he did not know about Radioactivity – that story is a modern myth
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Political Polarization: Often Not as Bad as We Think
Everybody and everything feels deeply ensnared by Polarization. New Study confirms that it is not actually really like this at all.
The ‘heat bombs’ destroying Arctic sea ice
New research from @YuengP (@sos_bangor_uni) and collaborators who have discovered ‘heat bombs’ entering the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific.
New CRISPR gene switch – CRISPRoff
Reversible #CRISPR method controls gene expression while leaving underlying DNA sequence unchanged. – #CRISPRoff and #CRISPRon
Study: Third of The Antarctic Ice Shelf at Risk of Collapse
Study finds over a third of the area of all #Antarctic ice shelves could be at risk of collapsing if global temperatures soar to 4°C
Increasingly Brighter Sky at Night – Light Pollution
“As space gets more crowded, the magnitude of this effect will only be more, not less,” says the director of public policy at the International Dark-Sky Association