NASA's search for habitable planets and life beyond the solar systemDr. Gary H. Blackwood earned his BS, MS and PHD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT. He has been an employee at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA since 1988 and has worked on technology development for precision astronomical instruments and astrophysics missions including the Hubble Wide/Field Planetary ...
Learning From the NetherlandsWith sea level rise threatening our coastal areas, there is much that can be learned from countries that have faced this problem for years. A Bay Area delegation visited the Netherlands recently to study how the Dutch manage their water and plan for economic resiliency. Join us for a visual ...
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Mycosystem Functioning As mycologists and ecologists uncover more and more in uences that fungi hold on the environment, it is becoming increasingly clear that the fth kingdom might need to be placed as number one! Fungi are everywhere, lling every plant, swapping DNA with other organisms, and ensuring the overall health ...
The dinosaurs (and 75% of all earthly species!) learned the hard way: asteroids eventually mean trouble - on a planetary scale. From the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, to the asteroid/comet that caused a mass extinction 66 million years ago, space "debris" is important. Fortunately, a global team of ...
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In 1609, Galileo Galilei significantly improved the optical performance of the telescope and began a series of celestial observations that dramatically changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.He developed a new method for reliably comprehending phenomena in the world around us, and so correctly has been ...
While Mark Bittman’s journey started with food, it didn’t take long for him to connect what he cooked to where it came from and how that impacts the health of the people and environment around him. An author of 14 books, Bittman has received the International Association of Culinary Professionals, ...
