Christopher Plain

Christopher Plain

EXOPLANET HUNTING

New Exoplanet Hunting Tool Begins Search for Alien Worlds

Supercomputer Based System Uses Advanced Spectroscopy to Spot Earth Sized Planets

Christopher Plain·November 10, 2021

A new instrument named NEID, the NN-explore Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy, has come online, providing a powerful...

nuclear fusion

Nuclear Fusion Researchers Record Highest Output Level Yet

Approximately 2/3 the Input Energy this Latest Result is a Massive Increase Over Previous Records

Christopher Plain·November 10, 2021

Nuclear Fusion researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working in the National Ignition Facility have recorded the...

Galaxy

“Critical to Life” Signs of Water Found in Distant Galaxy

Christopher Plain·November 9, 2021

Researchers studying the galaxy SPT0311-58, which is over 12.8 billion light years away, say they have found signs...

Solar Reactor

Solar Reactor Makes Aviation Fuel From Sunlight and Air

Christopher Plain·November 9, 2021

Researchers at ETH Zurich, a public university in Switzerland, have designed a solar reactor that makes high performance...

Scientists Successfully Measure Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

First of it Kind Detection Seen as a Key Milestone in Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Christopher Plain·November 9, 2021

Using the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, an international team of scientists have successfully analyzed the chemical makeup...

magic mushrooms, psychedelics

Detroit Just Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms and Other Psychedelics

Christopher Plain·November 8, 2021

Last week the citizens of Detroit, Michigan voted to decriminalize “Entheogenic Fungi” used for pharmaceutical purposes. This change,...

This Asteroid No One Saw Coming Almost Hit Earth

Christopher Plain·November 8, 2021

An asteroid the size of a small refrigerator nearly collided with Earth on October 24th, and no one...

desert

Did An Ancient Comet Turn Chile’s Atacama Desert Into Glass?

Christopher Plain·November 8, 2021

Researchers from Brown University studying glass shards in the Atacama Desert of Chile have determined that it was...

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