Night Sky: Expect the improbable
It’s a tricky business, dealing with events that happen at the same time. Are they linked, or just coincidental? Case in point: climate change.
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Night Sky: Last chance to see Venus
Twilight won’t be the same without Venus hovering in the middle of it.
An argument for nature’s innate intelligence: the wing
Random evolution can’t explain the dragonfly’s wing. Unlike the evolution of giraffes’ necks, where any incremental increase in length would offer evolutionary advantages, a step-by-step process just wouldn’t work for a wing design. The wrong shape would be useless, and confer no advantage whatsoever.
Perfect temperature: This is when it matters
Two of the nation’s top climate scientists told me that our region should see its greatest anthropogenic changes during winter nights. These are statistically the year’s coldest few weeks, with a normal high around freezing and normal nightly low around 13 degrees.
A new star in 2022? The century’s first naked-eye nova
An astronomy professor at a small Midwestern college, along with some of his students, predicts that an odd type of exploding star called a red nova would appear in our skies five years from now.
Full solar eclipse will take place in 2017
This year may bring your life’s most astonishing experience. For the first time in nearly four decades, a total solar eclipse sweeps across the mainland US.
Night Sky: See Venus at its best
Check out Venus as it brightens, aligning with Mars and the crescent Moon
Universe or polyverse? Finishing up the quantum business
It’s now reasonable to conclude that consciousness and the so-called external universe are one and the same.
Does the universe exist outside of our consciousness?
Einstein said he was reluctant to give up on trying to solve this question, and yet he had to. It is an enigma that arises because quantum mechanics keep revealing a universe that is dependent on the observer. That is to say, the presence of the observer influences experimental results.
Cosmology surprise: Death doesn’t exist
You, who exist as awareness, will never cease to be.