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Apr 8, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Clara Moskowitz |Kelso Harper |Lucie McCormick |Jason Drakeford |Jeffery DelViscio
A Veteran Eclipse Chaser Explains the Thrill of TotalityKate Russo has seen 13 total solar eclipses, and even she isn't ready for this one. SUBSCRIBE TO Science, Quickly[CLIP: Music]Clara Moskowitz: I'm Clara Moskowitz and this is Science, Quickly. I'm here in south Texas hoping to catch a glimpse of the eclipse this afternoon. The feeling of a total solar eclipse is intense, and the sights, sensations and emotions can overwhelm you even if you think you know what's coming.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Jeffery DelViscio |Jason Drakeford |Lucie McCormick |Kelso Harper |Clara Moskowitz
These Cold War–Era Jets Will Chase the Eclipse to Uncover the Sun’s MysteriesA team of researchers has an ambitious plan to capture the 2024 total solar eclipse like never before. This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Tulika Bose |Jason Drakeford |Kelso Harper
Nia Imara: My being an artist very much affects my view of the world. And it bleeds into everything, including my science. For me, science is about the search from the outside in. Whereas art is the search from the inside out. One of the connections between art and science is storytelling. One of the outstanding mysteries of star formation is how stellar nurseries are born and how they evolve. I’m Dr. Nia Imara. I'm an astrophysicist and an artist and this is how stars are born.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Micah Garen |Marie-Helene Carleton |Jason Drakeford |Jeffery DelViscio
The eruption in Iceland may look beautiful, but what is happening just below the surface is threatening safety and livelihoods on the surface. On December 18, a volcano emerged on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, just north of the town of Grindavik, near the world famous Blue Lagoon. The volcanoes on the Reykjanes peninsula have awakened after eight hundred years. The tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America are moving apart.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Jason Drakeford |Tulika Bose |Kelso Harper |Jeffery DelViscio
Debbie Senesky: Venus is often called Earth's sister planet, but I would like to say that it's Earth's evil twin because it actually has a very hellish environment. Surface temperatures are around 480 degrees Celsius. The surface pressures are roughly 90 times the pressure that we experience here on Earth. And I imagine that it smells like rotten eggs and that's because of some of the sulfur compounds that are present. It's hypothesized that billions of years ago Venus looked like Earth.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Kern Hendricks |Tulika Bose |Michael Lester |Jason Drakeford
Roman Kizyma The first months of war, we didn't have the weekdays, so we just worked seven days, 24 hours. There are moments when I can work for three days without sleep. There are moments like when I, I cannot do anything for this day. I had a very long period without my very small kids. And so when I met in a couple of months, my younger son, so he didn't recognize me. So compared to the people that suffered the atrocities in Bucha or European or Eastern Ukraine, this is nothing.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Kern Hendricks |Tulika Bose |Michael Lester |Jason Drakeford
Roman Kizyma: The first months of war, we didn’t have the weekdays, so we just worked seven days, 24 hours. There are moments when I can work for three days without sleep. There are moments like when I, I cannot do anything for this day. I had a very long period without my very small kids. And so when I met, in a couple of months, my younger son, so he didn’t recognize me. So compared to the people that suffered the atrocities in Bucha or European or Eastern Ukraine, this is nothing.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Timmy Broderick |Jason Drakeford |Carin Leong
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare via EmailPrintAn astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. They wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos. [CLIP: Music]Timmy Broderick: So I’m sitting inside this stone clock tower in the small town of Castellaro Lagusello in Italy. It’s pretty old, like 800 years old.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
scientificamerican.com | Timmy Broderick |Jason Drakeford |Carin Leong
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare via EmailPrintIn 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy. [CLIP: Wanda Díaz-Merced speaks in a TED Talk: “ Once there was a star....
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Timmy Broderick |Jason Drakeford |Carin Leong
In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.
