WARREN, Minn. -- Whatever you believe happened the night of Aug. 27, 1979, one thing is certain: Val Johnson's police cruiser hit something .
In the moments after the Marshall County Sheriff's deputy awoke in his car in the middle of the night on a dark road, the front of his vehicle bearing obvious damage, that was the only thing he knew for certain, too.
"I don't know what happened," he said over the radio to a county dispatcher while he waited for an ambulance. "Something hit me."
Wine that went to space is up for sale with a $1 million price tag
Christie's said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as $1 million to own it.
The Pétrus 2000 is one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 by researchers exploring the potential for extraterrestrial agriculture. It returned 14 months later subtly altered, according to wine experts who sampled it at a tasting in France.
Ask the Weather Guys: Can space dust affect our atmosphere? | Weather | starherald.com
Space dust rains on Earth constantly, but because of its microscopic size we never knew exactly how much. AmazeLab's Johana Restrepo has more.
A: Space contains tons of dust. When dust particles approach Earth, they can be captured by gravity and enter the atmosphere at very high speeds.
The dust aids with the formation of "noctilucent" clouds — the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere — by providing a surface on which ice crystals can form. Noctilucent clouds develop during summer in the polar regions.
The Belgian Francqui Prize 2021 awarded to Michaël Gillon | EurekAlert! Science News
IMAGE: Michaël Gillon, astrophysicist at University of Liège (Belgium). His discovery of seven Earth-like exoplanets has already inspired hundreds of scientific studies. view more
The revolutionary nature of his discovery was unanimously recognized by the scientific community, including NASA, inspiring billions of people around the world. The jury - composed of renowned experts and chaired by Professor Ben Feringa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016, decided to reward these major discoveries by awarding him the Francqui Prize. The official presentation by His Majesty the King will take place on June 9, 2021 at the Palace of the Academies.
'Donkey Hodie' Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers's World. And a Mohawk. - The New York Times
The world of " Mister Rogers' Neighborhood " is far more associated with cozy cardigans and navy blue tennis shoes than with a spiky shock of magenta hair. But even Mister Rogers had a funny and funkier side, now re-emerging in a little yellow dynamo called Donkey Hodie .
Star of a new half-hour PBS Kids series that bears her name, Donkey Hodie may be the first punk-style puppet to hit public television.
"She's like a preschool character with a mohawk," said Adam Rudman, who created the show with his brother David Rudman. "And she's a firecracker."
Staying grounded in space requires artificial gravity | Science News for Students
Gravity is a fundamental force. It attracts objects with mass toward each other. Objects with a lot of mass — such as Earth — attract other objects toward their centers. This is why we stand firmly on the ground no matter where on Earth we are. Gravity decreases with distance, though. So as people travel to the Moon or Mars, their pull toward Earth quickly weakens, which leaves them floating.
In fact, notes Mika McKinnon, "We know a lot of ways to have the same effect as gravity using other forces." She is a physicist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. It's in Mountain View, Calif. And at least a few of the simpler tactics might not be that far off.
A big lesson from the 'Oumuamua alienware controversy - Big Think
Sometimes, when you are looking for something ordinary, you find the unexpected. This is definitely the case with the strange 'Oumuamua, which made international headlines as a potential interstellar visitor. Its true identity remained obscure for a while, as scientists proposed different explanations for its puzzling behavior. This is the usual scientific approach of testing hypotheses to make sense of a new discovery.
What captured the popular imagination was the claim that the object was no piece of rock or comet, but an alien artifact, designed by a superior intelligence.
BBC Young Musician 2020 Finale, BBC Four review - poise versus extraterrestrial ecstasy
Winner of the woodwind final, 19-year-old oboist Ewan Millar ( pictured below ), has the kind of meaty tone I prefer in the instrument (even if I can't make it myself). His choice of work, though, was the weakest – Oscar Navarro's Legacy Concerto, which after a beguiling start becomes a lurid film score with virtuoso soloistic writing attached.
Oddly, it was previous winner Lauren Zhang's slightly restrained role in the delectable finale of Mozart's earlier E flat Piano Concerto masterpiece, No. 9, with its embedded minuet, that made one realise how in comparison there had been no reservations at all about this year's finalists. All must have prizes and distinguished careers, but as always the X-Factor was what clinched it.
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