URLs for Lyceum Science Discussion - Fall Quarter 2019

• Astronomy

  • Astronomers pinpoint source of fast radio burst
  • Fast Radio Burst Pinpointed to Distant Galaxy
  • Are moons forming around this distant gas giant planet?
  • How far is a light-year?
  • Will the Webb telescope be able to detect life signs at nearby exoplanets?
  • Astronomers spy a 2nd interstellar visitor
  • Scientists detect tones in the ringing of a newborn black hole for the first time
  • Not long ago, the center of our Milky Way galaxy exploded
  • TESS watched a black hole tear apart a star
  • Is Hygiea now the smallest dwarf planet?
  • Edmond Halley's magnificent prediction
  
  
• Biology

  • Dangerous Pathogens Use This Sophisticated Machinery to Infect Hosts
  • Biology and Big Data
  
  
• Chemistry

  • Comet Inspires Chemistry for Making Breathable Oxygen on Mars
  • Ion the Prize: The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  
  
• Evolution

  • Directed Evolution Opens Door to New Antibiotics
  • Evolution doesn't proceed in a straight line
  • While still in the womb, humans have extra lizard-like muscles in their hands
  • A Virus in Koala DNA Shows Evolution in Action
  
  
• Geology

  • Seismologists Monitor Ridgecrest Aftershocks Using Novel Fiber Optic Network
  • Listening with Light
  • Ridgecrest Earthquake 2019
  
  
• Materials

  • A Faster Way to Rearrange Atoms Could Lead to Powerful Quantum Sensors
  • X-ray Detection May Be Perovskites' Killer App
  
  
• Physics

  • Clocks, gravity and the limits of relativity
  
  
• Planetary Science

  • New evidence for Pluto's subsurface ocean
  
  
• Space Exploration

  • Lightsail Flight by Light for CubeSats
  • NASA to fund research on advanced solar sails
  • Lightcraft From Wikipedia
  
  

Technology

• Artificial Intelligence

  • With This AI, 60 Percent of Patients Who Had Surgery Could Have Avoided It
  • AI Chemist Finds the Best Recipe and Stirs Up Molecules From Scratch
  • 6 Things to Know About the Biggest Chip Ever Built
  
  
• Batteries

  • A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better?
  • Startup Aims to Tackle Grid Storage Problem With New Porous Silicon Battery
  • A Novel Thermal Battery Promises Green Power Around the Clock Japanese scientists have developed a thermal battery that converts heat into electricity when buried in a geothermal zone
  
  
• Climate Change

  • Wood Gets a Makeover to Provide Energy-Free Air Conditioning
  • 6 things to know about carbon dioxide
  • All Aboard the U.K.'s First Hydrogen Train
  • June 2019 hottest on record for globe
  • Greenland Ice Sheet Beats All-Time 1-Day Melt Record
  • Satellites Spot Carbon Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
    
  • Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
  • Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth's climate
  • Researchers investigate dramatic melt of glaciers in Peru
  • Svante Arrhenius, the Man Who Foresaw Climate Change In 1895/1896 quantified CO2 effect on global temperature.
  
  
• Computation

  • Odd computer zips through knotty tasks
  • 6 Things to Know About the Biggest Chip Ever Built
  
  
• Conspiracy Theories

  • 50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the 'moon hoax'
  
  
• Energy

  • 3D-Printed Semiconductor Cube Could Convert Waste Heat to Electricity
  • Rooftop Solar Refinery Produces Carbon-Neutral Fuels
  • Order for First All-Electric Passenger Airplane Placed by Massachusetts Carrier
  • Liquid Air Could Store Renewable Energy and Reduce Emissions
  
  
• Global Internet

  • Wow! The SpaceX Starlink satellite train
  
  
• GMO

  • Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%
  
  

November 11, 2019