On climate change, Scott Pruitt causes an uproar — and contradicts the EPA’s own website

By Google News

646413466

On climate change, Scott Pruitt causes an uproar — and contradicts the EPA’s own website

Washington Post
This story has been updated. Scott Pruitt, the nation’s top environmental official, strongly rejected the established science of climate change on Thursday, outraging scientists, environmentalists, and even his immediate predecessor at the

Long Lost Indian Moon Probe Found by Earth-Based Radar

Space.com
Powerful radar beamed from Earth has found a tiny Indian moon probe that last contacted its handlers more than seven years ago. Scientists used the radar to spot India’s 5-foot-wide (1.5 meters) Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter, which studied the moon from …

Scientists Closer To Creating A Fully Synthetic Yeast Genome

NPR
Scientists have taken another important step toward creating different types of synthetic life in the laboratory. An international research consortium reports Thursday that it has figured out an efficient method for synthesizing a substantial part of

Harvard theorists: How sailing aliens could have caused fast radio bursts

Washington Post
In 2007, a West Virginia University astrophysicist named Duncan Lorimer detected a brief yet intense signal while combing through archival data from the Parkes Observatory telescope in Australia.

Saturn has a moon that looks just like a ravioli

Popular Science
NASA just released the best-ever pictures of Saturn’s moon Pan, and mamma mia! Does that thing look like a ravioli, or what? Alternatively, one might argue that it resembles a UFO straight out of an Ed Wood film: flying saucer.

NASA Mars orbiter tracks back-to-back regional storms

Phys.Org
This movie clip shows a global map of Mars with atmospheric changes from Feb. 18, 2017, through March 6, 2017, a period when two regional-scale dust storms appeared.

Trump’s proposed climate agency cuts would disarm our coasts in the face of rising seas, scientists say

Washington Post
A proposed White House budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could put coastal communities throughout the nation at a major disadvantage as they struggle to adapt to threats from sea-level rise, severe storms and other …

Oculus Rift Mission:ISS lets you live out your astronaut dreams

SlashGear
Thanks to some historic events in space science, being an astronaut has once again become a “cool” career path. Of course, that chances of actually being chosen for a space mission are very slim.

Stephen Hawking Warns Of Robot Apocalypse: Here’s How Humanity Can Protect Itself From Artificial Intelligence

Tech Times
Technology has come to a point where it poses danger to the existence of mankind. The warning of robot apocalypse comes from Stephen Hawking, one of the most popular and brightest minds of modern science.

Carbon Dioxide Is Warming the Planet (Here’s How)

Live Science
An image from NOAA/NASA satellite, GOES-16, shows a composite color full-disk visible image of Earth on Jan. 15, 2017. Credit: NOAA/NASA.

Great Barrier Reef witnessing second year of mass bleaching

Deccan Chronicle
The survey confirmed anecdotal reports from visitors and reef surveys of bleaching from marine park rangers and commercial operators.

How IBM turned a single atom into a tiny hard drive

FOX 61
A woman walks past the IBM logo at the CeBIT technology trade fair the day before the fair’s official opening on Feb. 28, 2011 in Hanover, Germany.

Target Earth – A near miss by an asteroid

Bangor Daily News
Asteroids have hit the Earth in the past, and astronomers are keeping an eye out for these objects. While Earth gets hit by well over a ton of space dust and debris each day, most burns up in our atmosphere.

Hair apparent: Study links modern Australian Aboriginals with the continent’s earliest settlers

Christian Science Monitor
Aboriginals settled Australia 50,000 years ago, establishing geographic patterns that persist to this day, report scientists citing hair samples as evidence.

Physicists have created an “impossible” state of matter that could power quantum computers

Quartz
The laws of physics are supposed to be symmetrical in time and space. That means a ball thrown at a certain speed and in a certain direction would always go the same distance, no matter when you throw or where on Earth you throw it (assuming no other …

Falcon 9 rocket performs static fire test

Spaceflight Now
Held down by heavy-duty restraints, a Falcon 9 rocket fired up its nine Merlin engines for more than three seconds Thursday evening in a key readiness test before launching from Florida with a commercial television broadcast satellite next week.

China developing advanced spaceship that can land on the moon

Fox News
Beijing – China is developing an advanced new spaceship capable of both flying in low-Earth orbit and landing on the moon, according to state media, in another bold step for a space program that equaled the U.S.

Kepler Telescope Beams Back Raw Data on Earth-Size Exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1

Space.com
Scientists, have at it: NASA has released raw data from the Kepler Space Telescope probing the many Earth-size planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.

Be the first to comment on "On climate change, Scott Pruitt causes an uproar — and contradicts the EPA’s own website"

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published.


*


Time limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA.