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Saturday Quote: The Universe doesn’t care about your valuable standard model
This slice of digital data maps celestial objects billions of light years away from the Earth (center). Among the objects are nearby bright galaxies (yellow), bright red galaxies (orange), exhaust line galaxies (blue), and quasars (green). The large-scale structure of the universe shows the most dense research area and is shown in the inset image representing less than 0.1% of…
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How countries define climate action in the Paris Agreement pledge, and why standard forms help assess outcomes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As the world is working on how it tackles climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitment to reducing emissions in documents called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). These are the official climate action plans that countries submit to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) every five years, detailing reduction targets…
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Saturday Quote: Octopus as a fish shift supervisor. The universe confuses the standard model. very old cheese
3,300-year-old kefir cheese discovered in a Tarim mummy. Credit: Yang Yiming This week, biologists tracked a mysterious group of killer whales near Chile. Hubble has discovered a black hole jet that explodes stars along its orbit. Researchers then described mysterious craters that began appearing in Siberian permafrost in the 2010s. But you’re probably here for cheese, cosmology, and taco, so…
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