Sarah Scoles

Westcliffe

Science Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Journalist, universe liker, trail runner, contributor @SciAm @Undarkmag. Author, They Are Already Here, Making Contact, Countdown.

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Norway, A Surprising Satellite Powerhouse — With A Troublesome Neighbor | Flipboard

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sarah Scoles

3 hours agoAppeals court reverses Trump firings of 2 board members in cases likely headed for the Supreme CourtWASHINGTON (AP) — Two board members fired by President Donald Trump can go back to their jobs for now, a split appeals court ruled Monday ahead of a likely Supreme Court showdown on the president’s power over independent agencies.
Xenolinguistics-the Study of Alien Languages-Helps to Reveal Why All Beings Communicate

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Sarah Scoles

In the 2016 movie Arrival, water-dwelling extraterrestrials make an appearance on Earth. The main human character’s job is to learn how to communicate with the seven-tentacled extraterrestrials before tensions escalate into war.
Book Review: Casting a Brighter Light on Nuclear Energy

1 month ago | undark.org | Sarah Scoles

In 2000, a reporter attended a climate conference and wrote in an article for the Dutch alternative magazine Ode that purveyors of nuclear power hailed the energy source as “a ‘safe and clean’ way to generate electricity.” Perhaps, the speakers said, nuclear energy was even the singular solution to climate change.
A powerhouse of global satellite infrastructure: Norway?

1 month ago | popsci.com | Sarah Scoles

The KSAT Svalbard Ground Station, or SvalSat, consists of more than 150 antennas ensconced in spherical coverings.
A Powerhouse of Global Satellite Infrastructure: Norway?

1 month ago | undark.org | Sarah Scoles

Timothy Stryker was making his second visit to Svalbard, a Norwegian island chain nudged up against the North Pole, but the yield signs still caught his attention: They directed drivers to defer not to other cars but to polar bears. Stryker didn’t encounter such hazards in his day-to-day work in Washington, D.C. Nor did he normally encounter the austere landscape now surrounding him — fjords, ice, lunar-like rock piles, snow-studded mountains bearing down on the sea.
Mood Lighting and Hilton Interiors—Meet the Private Space Stations of the Future

1 month ago | scientificamerican.com | Sarah Scoles

NASA wants to get out of the space station business and put it in the hands of, well, businesses. The agency is planning to send the International Space Station (ISS) to a fiery death through Earth’s atmosphere in 2031 so it can focus on its longer-term, farther-out (literally) goals such as going back to the moon. Elon Musk recently called for the agency to deorbit the station much sooner.
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

2 months ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Sarah Scoles

With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA headquarters in Washington on Dec. 2, 2010. “I’ve discovered — I’ve led a team that has discovered — something that I’ve been thinking about for many years,” Wolfe-Simon said. She was at that time a visiting researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, speaking to a sizable audience of journalists and bloggers, two of them wearing tinfoil hats, and hordes of streamers online.
Her Discovery Wasn't Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Sarah Scoles

With TV cameras pointed at her, Felisa Wolfe-Simon began speaking at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2010. "I've discovered - I've led a team that has discovered - something that I've been thinking about for many years," Dr. Wolfe-Simon said. She was at that time a visiting researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, speaking to a sizable audience of journalists and bloggers, two of them wearing tinfoil hats, and hordes of streamers online.
Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Sarah Scoles

Movie about Nevada radio legend reportedly in the worksHe broadcast stories about Area 51 and alien abductions across the nation from his radio station in Pahrump. Now, a movie about Art Bell’s life is …
Gateway: The 21st-century moonshot mission

2 months ago | popsci.com | Sarah Scoles

An artist’s concept of the Gateway space station in a polar orbit around the moon.