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Chemistry
Video: Science prevents Christmas tree fires
Credit: American Chemical Society Each year, Christmas tree fires occur in 160 homes in the United States. They’re hot, fast, dangerous, and preventable. In this video, the ACS Reactions team tests various Christmas tree watering conditions. This includes an internet recipe for fireproofing a Christmas tree with borax, and explores the science behind preventing these fires. With help from the…
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Other Sciences
‘I can’t hear you smile’: How video visitation is helping a father in prison stay connected to his children
The Conversation by Elizabeth Duursma, Amy Conley Wright, Helen Simpson and Natalia Kate Hanley Many Australians know December 21 as ‘Gravy Day’. This is a reference to the Paul Kelly song and new film How to Make Gravy, in which a prisoner named Joe writes a letter to his family four days before Christmas. In it, Joe misses his wife…
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Space & Cosmos
Video: Our Sun is the star of a new simulation
Credit: NASA NASA’s supercomputers are unraveling the causes of some of the sun’s most complex behaviors. Now, using data from a series of solar observing spacecraft observing the star at the center of our solar system, researchers are able to investigate the dynamics of the sun in an unprecedented way. This animation shows the strength of the turbulent motion in…
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Space & Cosmos
New video shows tiny spacecraft ‘swarming’ Proxima Centauri
A screenshot from an animation showing the Proxima Centauri cluster approaching Proxima b. Credit: i4is/Interstellar Initiatives Earlier this year, NASA selected a very interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Known as Swarming Proxima Centauri, it is a collaboration between Space Initiative and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), led by…
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