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December 23, 2020 at 8:00 am Discoveries about the cosmos and ancient life on Earth tantalized scientists and the public in 2020. But these big claims require more evidence before they can earn a spot in science textbooks. Cloudy with a chance of life The scorching hellscape next door may be a place to look for life. Telescopes trained on Venus’ clouds spotted traces of phosphine in quantities that suggest something must be actively producing the gas ( SN: 9/14/20). On Earth, phosphine is emitted by certain bacteria or industrial processes, leading some astrobiologists to speculate that microbes may be living in Venus’ relatively temperate upper atmosphere. But other research teams’ analyses suggest the phosphine detection was a misread perhaps the result of a fluke in data processing ( ....
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Bad Space Weather May Make Life Impossible Near Proxima Centauri 17/12/2020 Featured image: Artist’s depiction of a flare-coronal mass ejection event on Proxima Centauri. Photo: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Author provided If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close together to tell apart by eye. There is a third member of the Alpha Centauri system as well: Proxima Centauri (Proxima Cen for short), which circles the central two stars in a wide orbit. This is the Sun’s nearest neighbour, at a distance of just 4.2 light years. ....
Dec 16, 2020 LISBON A Dec. 21 preliminary hearing and pretrial was set in county Municipal Court for Codey A. Mobley, 26, Chester Ave, Wellsville, charged with two counts of resisting arrest and a second-degree felony escape charge. His bond is set at $100,000 cash or surety. On Sunday, Mobley was allegedly yelling and trying to get into Sarah Berdine’s apartment in Independence Square in Wellsville, where police later found him hiding in an upstairs bedroom closet. He allegedly resisted being cuffed and ran out of the apartment into a wooded area when he was being taken to the police cruiser. A Feb. 2 pretrial was set for Shannon L. Cunning, 44, West Fourth Street, East Liverpool, charged with assault, obstructing official business and illegal use of drug paraphernalia. She was ordered to have no contact with Shane Linden, the person she is accused of punching in the face on Oct. 29 at a Crestview Road, Leetonia, property. The other two charges stemmed from a traffic ....
Dec 16, 2020 LISBON A Dec. 21 preliminary hearing and pretrial was set in county Municipal Court for Codey A. Mobley, 26, Chester Ave, Wellsville, charged with two counts of resisting arrest and a second-degree felony escape charge. His bond is set at $100,000 cash or surety. On Sunday, Mobley was allegedly yelling and trying to get into Sarah Berdine’s apartment in Independence Square in Wellsville, where police later found him hiding in an upstairs bedroom closet. He allegedly resisted being cuffed and ran out of the apartment into a wooded area when he was being taken to the police cruiser. A Feb. 2 pretrial was set for Shannon L. Cunning, 44, West Fourth Street, East Liverpool, charged with assault, obstructing official business and illegal use of drug paraphernalia. She was ordered to have no contact with Shane Linden, the person she is accused of punching in the face on Oct. 29 at a Crestview Road, Leetonia, property. The other two charges stemmed from a traffic ....