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Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here.
Vísindamenn telja að þeir hafi rambað á nyrstu eyju jarðar fyrir algjöra heppni. Eyjan meinta er norður af Grænlandi. Vísindamennirnir héldu að þeir væru á Oodaaq-eyju, sem hefur verið þekkt frá
NorthJersey.com For fun, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert likes to consider what conditions are like on a planet called WD 0137-349B. Nuzzled up close to a white dwarf star located 330 light-years from earth, WD 0137-349B is a big planet where surface temperatures hit 3,100 degrees. That’s hot enough to vaporize rock into gas. What happens next? Pierrehumbert likes to picture it. All that superhot gas goes racing across the fiery surface of WD 0137-349B until it reaches the planet’s dark side, where it cools to a gray dust. Pierrehumbert plays with this image in his mind, a perpetual avalanche of...