Earth Day is a wonderful time for reflecting on our planet. In today’s post I wanted to avoid the temptation to simply post a picture of Earthrise, a momentous vista which showed us our fragile planet for the very first time from lunar orbit. Instead, I’ve taken a look at some of the Earth’s cracks and crevasses as seen by NASA’s Terra satellite. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Dog Neutrino Claim Hints at Elusive Cat Neutrino
After a recently published article in the science journal Nature, particle physicists have been barking about the dog neutrino. Timing Glitches’ claim opens the door to let new and never-before hypothesized flavors of neutrinos into the subatomic particle zoo. Continue reading