Jordan Strickler

3 weeks ago | uknow.uky.edu | Jordan Strickler

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 5, 2025) — Tucked away in a one-story building on the University of Kentucky campus is a program that has quietly safeguarded Kentucky’s agriculture for more than a century. While many people might be unfamiliar with it, the UK Division of Regulatory Services (DRS) — part of the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) — is vital in protecting consumers, producers and the broader agricultural industry.

3 weeks ago | zmescience.com | Jordan Strickler |Tibi Puiu

When school textbooks explain the Milky Way’s far-future, they often end with a drama: our spiral home colliding head-on with the equally grand Andromeda galaxy roughly five billion years from now. However, a new study in Nature Astronomy now paints a calmer picture. Astronomers from the universities of Helsinki, Durham, and Toulouse ran 100,000 computer experiments that fold in the sharpest data yet from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.

3 weeks ago | zmescience.com | Jordan Strickler |Tibi Puiu

Serving in the U.S. Armed Forces could offer a mental-health advantage, according to a federal survey reviewed in BMJ Military Health. Researchers looked at National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data collected between 2011 and 2023. They found that adults who once served on active duty were about 23% less likely to show signs of moderate-to-severe depression than people who never served. This flips prior understandings that veterans actually were at higher risk for depression.

1 month ago | zmescience.com | Jordan Strickler |Tibi Puiu

Seafood shoppers might notice higher prices, recreational divers and snorkelers will find murkier waters, and even worse; possibly huge numbers of the planet’s marine species and the ecosystem services provided by the ocean as a whole could be dulled. Those everyday effects sit upstream of a single trend: The sunlit layer that powers almost all ocean life is shrinking.

1 month ago | zmescience.com | Jordan Strickler |Tibi Puiu

Just after midnight on May 14, a Long March 2D rocket carried 12 identical satellites into low Earth orbit. These 12 craft form the first “node” of the proposed 2,800-satellite fleet called the Three-Body Computing Constellation, an ambitious project led by Chinese start-up ADA Space and the government-affiliated Zhejiang Lab. The full plan calls for all satellites to be deployed over the next several years.