The Milky Way galaxy observed from both the Northern and Southern hemisphere on Earth. Photo credit: Nick Risinger ( Photopic Sky Survey )
Project researchers from UC San Diego , UC Berkeley , University of California Observatories and Harvard University recently installed the two prototype telescopes at Lick Observatory near San Jose. They are the first of hundreds of telescopes planned to be installed as part of a project called Panoramic SETI or PANOSETI, for Pulsed All-sky Near-infrared Optical SETI. Wright, an associate professor of physics at UC San Diego, serves as lead investigator.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Scientists set up new telescopes dedicated to finding aliens
As humanity's quest to discover aliens continues, a team of researchers has set up two prototype telescopes at Lick Obersevtory near San Jose, specifically for finding the extraterrestrial. These telescopes are part of hundreds of telescopes that are going to be installed called Panoramic SETI (PANOSETI).
The team is led by UC San Diego physicist Shelley Wright, and consists of researchers from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, University of California Observatories and Harvard University.
The 'One Planet, One People' coronavirus corrective | TheHill
Trying our best to cope with these changes, and watching breaking-news reports, it's often difficult to assess whether we're becoming the better or lesser versions of ourselves. We try to contain our worst fears and take constructive action.
If ever we needed a convincing argument (that is, concrete evidence, hard facts, and an authentically looming threat) to show us we're deeply connected inhabitants of the same planet, this is the time.
To face down challenges like the coronavirus, we will need to listen to our higher selves and be reminded, once again, that we are One Planet, One People .
What if scientists could find potentially habitable worlds just by looking at stars? | Space
Those elements include phosphorus, fluorine and potassium, among others. "They're elements we should care about but haven't yet because we didn't realize we needed to," Natalie Hinkel, a planetary astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, told Space.com.
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Hinkel and her co-author, an oceanographer, presented initial findings from their analyses in January at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu. They focused on phosphorus in particular because the process that turns sunlight into stored energy that organisms from algae to elephants can use requires phosphorus, albeit in small amounts.
Quite a lot has been going on:
UW Planetarium Steps Up Programming in March | News | University of Wyoming
After what he terms an “exciting February,” Max Gilbraith, the planetarium coordinator, says programming at the planetarium will be stepped up in March.
Friday night shows start at 8 p.m. Saturday’s schedule has moved from kid-themed planetarium shows in the morning to 2 p.m. family double features of full-dome movies and/or 8 p.m. programs or music visualization shows. The month also includes three Tuesday night shows that begin at 7 p.m. and one Thursday night program that also starts at 7 p.m.
Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites | PNAS
A Researcher's Hunt for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - WSJ
An estimated 8% of global CO2 emissions comes from the more than four billion metric tons of cement—a key ingredient in concrete—that are produced each year. A handful of new technologies aim to change that.
Carbon-capture techniques have remained costly and energy-intensive for years. Oil producers and others are trying to change that, as some skeptics warn of a potential "moral hazard" in embracing such climate solutions.
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