"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

60 Million Year-Old Meteorite Strike found on Skye (MyGlasgow News, University of Glasgow ; 15 December 2017) https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/peopleprojects/headline_565571_en.html Featured Research Article: Discovery of a meteoritic ejecta layer containing unmelted impacta fragments at the base of Paleocene lavas, Isle of Skye, Scotland (DRAKE et al. , 2017) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-pdf/doi/10.1130/G39452.1/4008208/g39452.pdf

Heads Up, Earthlings! The Geminids Are Here : Maybe you've already seen a bright meteor streak across the December sky? The annual Geminid meteor shower has arrived. It's a good time to bundle up, go outside and let the universe blow your mind!   (Molly PORTER, NASA ; December 8, 2017)

Trump, Zinke Ruin Holidays, Plan to Giveaway 700,000 Acres of Western Public Lands - WildEarth Guardians Also... Department of the Interior Releases Energy Burdens Report (Press Release,  U. S. Department of the Interior ; October 25, 2017) https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-releases-energy-burdens-report Final Report:  Review of the Department of the Interior Actions that Potentially Burden Domestic Energy  (October 24, 2017) https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/interior_energy_actions_report_final.pdf

More-Severe Climate Model Predictions Could Be The Most Accurate (Press Release, Carnegie Scence ; December 6, 2017) https://carnegiescience.edu/news/more-severe-climate-model-predictions-could-be-most-accurate Selected Research Articles: An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations (STEPHENS et al ., 2012) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5072/438e452d7b8e058248c8814ba18413b14625.pdf Anthropogenic and natural warming inferred from changes in Earth's energy balance (HUBER and KNUTTI, 2011) https://www.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/usys/iac/iac-dam/documents/group/climphys/knutti/publications/huber11natgeo.pdf A Global Climatic Model Based on the Energy Balance of the Earth-Atmospheric System (SELLERS, 1969 ) http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0450(1969)008%3C0392:AGCMBO%3E2.0.CO%3B2 Websites : Future Climate  ( 2014 National Climate Change Assessment - U. S. Global Change Research Pr...

World Soil Day [ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO )] http://www.fao.org/world-soil-day/en/ FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World ( FAO Soils Portal ) http://www.fao.org/soils-portal/soil-survey/soil-maps-and-databases/faounesco-soil-map-of-the-world/en/ Video: The Importance of Soil  ( Chicago Botanic Garden ; August 22, 2013) Websites: The Twelve Orders of Soil Taxonomy [ Natural Resources Conservation Service - U. S. Department of Agriculture ( NRCS-USDA )] https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/edu/?cid=nrcs142p2_053588 Soil Science Society of America https://www.soils.org/

Full Moon Sunday Kicks Off 'Supermoon Trilogy,' Including a Lunar Eclipse (Elizabeth HOWELL, Space.com ; December 2, 2017) A Supermoon Trilogy ( NASA Beta ) https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/a-supermoon-trilogy

Cigar-shaped asteroid came from another solar system: study | AFP.com Press Release: ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Is Like Nothing Seen Before (eso1737 Science Release; European Southern Observatory ; 20 November 2017) https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1737/

The Changing Colors of our Living Planet : While NASA began monitoring life on land in the 1970s with the Landsat satellites, this fall marks 20 years since the space agency has continuously observed plant life at the surface of both the land and ocean . (Kate RAMSAYER, NASA ; November 13, 2017)

When Water Met Iron Deep Inside the Earth, It Might Have Created Conditions for Life (Press Release, Carnegie Science ; November 13, 2017) https://carnegiescience.edu/news/when-water-met-iron-deep-inside-earth-it-might-have-created-conditions-life Featured Research Article : When water meets iron at Earth's core-mantle boundary (MAO et al ., 2017) https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwx109/21325987/nwx109.pdf N. B.:   This article is a corrected proof  from the  National Science Review.

CCI Toolbox  [ European Space Agency ( ESA ) - Climate Change Initiative ] https://cci-tools.github.io/ FREEWAT  [ European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Project - Water Resource Management ] http://www.freewat.eu/ World Karst Aquifer Map ( BGR WHYMAP ) https://www.bgr.bund.de/whymap/EN/Maps_Data/Wokam/wokam_node_en.html Global Solar Atlas ( Solargis - World Bank Group ) http://globalsolaratlas.info/ Ecological Marine Units - 3D Ocean Mapping ( ArcGIS - ESRI ) http://www.esri.com/ecological-marine-units OECD Pov and LRTP Screening Tool ( OECD.org ) http://www.oecd.org/env/ehs/risk-assessment/oecdpovandlrtpscreeningtool.htm

Scientists determine source of world’s largest mud eruption : More than 11 years after it first erupted, researchers may have figured out why an Indonesian mudflow hasn't stopped.

NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event : For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

Scientists suggest significant scale of human impact on planet has changed course of Earth’s history — University of Leicester (New and Events, University of Leicester ; October 2, 2017) Selected Research Articles : The Working Group on the Anthropocene:  Summary of evidence and interim recommendations (ZALASIEWICZ et al. , 2017) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213305417300097# N. B. :  The ScienceDirect link to the aforementioned article featured in the ELSEVIER journal Anthropocene will remain available for download until the end of 2017 . A transparent framework for defining the Anthropocene Epoch (LEWIS and MASLIN, 2015) https://monoskop.org/images/b/b9/The_Anthropocene_Review_2_2.pdf#page=32 N. B. :  From the SAGE Journal The  Anthropocene Review , Vol. 2, Issue 2; August 2015. Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene (ZALASIEWICZ et al ., 2011) http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1938/1036.full.pdf Website : W...

Upstate Waste Site May Endanger Lives (Donald D. MCNEIL, Jr., The New York Times ; August 2, 1978) http://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/02/archives/upstate-waste-site-may-endanger-lives-abandoned-dump-in-niagara.html The Love Canal Tragedy  (Eckhardt C. BECK, EPA Journal;  Volume 5, Number 1, January 1979: pp. 17 - 20) https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/93000CMP.PDF?Dockey=93000CMP.PDF Ion Chromatography EPA Methods generated from this disaster... EPA Method 300.0:  Determination of Inorganic Ions by Ion Chromatography (John D. PFAFF, 1993) https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-08/documents/method_300-0_rev_2-1_1993.pdf EPA Method 300.1:  Determination of Inorganic Anions in Drinking Water by Ion Chromatography  (John D. PFAFF et al ., 1997) https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/epa-300.1.pdf Website : Common Anion Analysis by EPA 300.0 and 300.1 ( ThermoFisher Scientific )   https://www.thermofisher.co...

1 Week Until Cassini's Fatal Saturn Dive: Here's How the Probe Will Spend Its Final Days (Calla COFIELD, Space.com ; September 8, 2017)

APNewsBreak: US taxpayer money misused for water project : A federal audit says $84 million in U.S. taxpayer funds were used improperly for planning California water tunnel project (Ellen KNICKMEYER, Associated Press/The Republic ; September 8 2017) Proposed Water System - California Delta Water Project ( "California WaterFix" ) ( Earthfirstjournal.org ) http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/against-delta-tunnels.gif

Major Gift to Expand Ocean Research and Environmental Education at Bowdoin | Bowdoin News The SCHILLER Coastal Studies Center ( Bowdoin College; Brunswick, Maine) http://features.bowdoin.edu/schiller-coastal-studies

HydroCalculator Tool | Conservation Strategy Fund " The  HydroCalculator Tool  empowers citizens to analyze the ecological, social, and financial impacts of hydroelectric dams. Click through below to see how you can analyze a hydro project online or see if someone else has already posted an analysis of the project in which you have an interest."

Uranus and Neptune: Cloudy with a chance of diamonds : Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have recreated the ice giants’ diamond rain. (Alison KLESMAN, Astronomy Magazine ; August 23, 2017) Scientists Create "Diamond Rain" that Forms the Interior of Icy Giant Planets (Press Release, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - Stanford University ; August 21, 2017) https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2017-08-21-scientists-create-diamond-rain-forms-interior-icy-giant-planets.aspx More on Neptune and Uranus... Carbon precipitation from heavy hydrocarbon fluid in deep planetary interiors (LOBANOV  et al. , 2013) https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3446.pdf Chemical Processes in the deep interior of Uranus (CHAU et al ., 2011) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/W_Nellis/publication/49857484_Chemical_processes_in_the_deep_interior_of_Uranus/links/55a1d7e608aec9ca1e63e3e8.pdf

U. S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report [ Third Order Draft (TOD);  June 28, 2017] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.pdf Retrieved from the following published New York Times article : Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report (Lisa FRIEDMAN, New York Times ; August 7, 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html

Gravity waves detected in Sun’s interior reveal rapidly rotating core / Space Science / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA : Scientists using the ESA/NASA SOHO solar observatory have found long-sought gravity modes of seismic vibration that imply the Sun’s core is rotating four times faster than its surface. [Space Science, European Space Agency (ESA) ; 1 August 2017] Research Publications : Asymptotic g modes:  Evidence for a rapid rotation of the solar core (FOSSAT  et al. , 2017) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2017/08/aa30460-17.pdf Tracking Solar Gravity Modes:  The Dynamics of the Solar Core (GARCIA et al ., 2007) http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~laszlo/kepek/nap_gmodus.pdf Website : Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) ( National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA )] https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ Video Presentation: T hierry APPOURCHAUX - The History of Solar g-Mode Detection ( CollqueAHG2013 ; July 9, 2013)

UPDATE:  Executive Order 13795, Section 4(b) Public Comment Period Extended ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ; July 26, 2017) http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/about/executive-order-13795.html N. B.  " Comments will continue to be accepted through Monday, August 14, 2017 " Original Notice:   Review of National Marine Sanctuaries and Marine National Monuments Designated or Expanded since April 28, 2007.  Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment [Federal Register; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ; June 26, 2017] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/26/2017-13308/review-of-national-marine-sanctuaries-and-marine-national-monuments-designated-or-expanded-since Video: Mariana Trench The Deepest & Most Unexplored Place on the Planet ( Top5s;  March 16, 2016)

A Water Weed is Damaging Ethiopia's Largest Lake and Putting Livelihoods at Risk (ENDALK, Globalvoices.org ; 10 July 2017) https://globalvoices.org/2017/07/19/a-water-weed-is-damaging-ethiopias-largest-lake-and-putting-livelihoods-at-risk/ Recent Event: Meeting on water hyacinth invasion problem of Lake Tana, Ethiopia ( KEPA/The Ethiopian Association in Finland ; March 10, 2018) https://www.kepa.fi/tapahtumat/meeting-water-hyacinth-invasion-problem-lake-tana-ethiopia Video :   Water Hyacinth invasion threatens livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lake Tana (CGTN Africa; September 10, 2018) Selected Publications : Impact of Water Hyacinth,   Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) (Pontederiacea in Lake Tana, Ethiopia:  A Review (WORKU and SAHILE, 2018) https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/impact-of-water-hyacinth-eichhornia-crassipes-martius-pontederiaceae-inlake-tana-ethiopia-a-review-2155-9546-1000521.pdf Controlling Water Hyacinth in Lake Tana using B...

Trump Officials Urged to Stop Dumping of Offshore Fracking Waste Into Gulf of Mexico : Center for Biological Diversity: Record Request Shows Agency Ignoring Risks to Gulf Wildlife (Kristen MONSELL, Center for Biological Diversity ; July 11, 2017) Groups Sue EPA Over Dangerous Drilling and Fracking Waste [Press Release, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) ; May 4, 2016] https://www.nrdc.org/media/2016/160504 Selected Research Publications: Wastewater Disposal Wells, Fracking, and Environmental Injustice in Southern Texas (JOHNSON et al. , 2016) http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303000 Troubled Waters ( Center of Biological Diversity ; September 2014) https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/offshore_fracking/pdfs/Troubled_Waters.pdf U. S. EPA: T he NPDES General Permit for New and Existing Sources and New Dischargers in the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category for the Western Portion of th...

Water is even weirder than we knew, supercool study shows (Ben GUARINO, Washington Post ; June 27, 2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/06/27/water-is-even-weirder-than-we-knew-supercool-study-shows/?utm_term=.119aafd4551f Odd properties of water and ice explained:  Water exists as two different liquids ( Science Daily ; June 26, 2017) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626190610.htm Research Article Publications : Diffusive dynamics during the high to low density transition in amorphous ice (PERAKIS et al. , 2017) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/23/1705303114.full.pdf The inhomogeneous structure of water under ambient conditions (HUANG et al ., 2009) http://www.pnas.org/content/106/36/15214.full.pdf Website : Water, Ice and Aqueous Solutions [X-Ray Science of Liquids and Surfaces ( XSoLaS ), Chemical Physics division - Department of Physics ; Stockholm University] Video : What molecular structur...

Earth Overshoot Day http://www.overshootday.org/ Earth Overshoot Day Infographics (English, French, German and Italian) http://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/infographics/ Past Earth Overshoot Days ( 1971 - 2016 ) http://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/past-earth-overshoot-days/

New!   Seismic survey of U. S. Arctic refuge coastal plain delayed (Yereth ROSEN, Reuters ; February 8, 2019) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-alaska-oil/seismic-surveys-of-u-s-arctic-refuge-coastal-plain-delayed-idUSKCN1PX27E Groups Sue Feds to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean (Press Release, EarthJustice ; December 11, 2018) https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2018/groups-sue-feds-to-stop-seismic-airgun-blasting-in-atlantic-ocean Infographic: Seismic Airgun Blasting (Haley JORDAN,  Clean Ocean Action ) http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/fileadmin/editor_group1/Issues/infographic_8.5x11_nobleed.pdf Maps : Animated Maps Show Dolphins and Whales Threatened by Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean  ( Oceana; August 26, 2016) http://usa.oceana.org/animated-maps-show-dolphins-and-whales-threatened-seismic-airgun-blasting-atlantic-ocean?_ga=2.5214131.106834651.1496758563-313031541.1496758563 OBIS SEAMAP:   Ocean Biogeograp...

Google, Aclima, Environmental Defense Fund, and UT Austin Announce Results of Breakthrough Study Mapping Hyperlocal Air Quality : Aclima’s unprecedented mobile sensing platform measured millions of data points about air pollution patterns that identified hot spots block-by-block Research Article: High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars:  Exploiting Big Data (APTE et al. , 2017) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/ipdf/10.1021/acs.est.7b00891

World Environment Day 2017:  Connecting People to Nature ( Climate Action News ; June 1, 2017) http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/world-environment-day-2017-connecting-people-to-nature Celebrated Citizen Science Platform Developped in Arctic Expands its Success Southward [Press Release, Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) ; June 1, 2017] http://www.cec.org/news-and-outreach/press-releases/celebrated-citizen-science-platform-developed-arctic-expands-its-success-southward Websites: World Environment Day 2017 http://www.worldenvironmentday.global/en/about/connecting-people-nature Citizen Science http://citizenscience.org/ Environment Live:  UNEP Live Citizen Science Portal http://www.uneplive.org/citizen

Stanford Scientists test links between extreme weather and climate change ( Ker THAN, Stanford News ; April 24, 2017) http://news.stanford.edu/2017/04/24/stanford-scientists-test-links-extreme-weather-climate-change/ We Just Breached the 410 ppm Threshold for  CO 2 (Brian KAHN, Climate Central/Scientific American ; April 21, 2017) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-just-breached-the-410-ppm-threshold-for-co2/ How the World Passed a Carbon Threshold and Why It Matters (Nicola JONES, Yale Environment 360 ; January 26, 2017) http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon-threshold-400ppm-and-why-it-matters Selected Research Articles: Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climatic events (DIFFENBAUGH et al. , 2017) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/04/18/1618082114.full.pdf?with-ds=yes A framework to understand transient climate response to emissions (WILLIAMS et al. , 2016) http://iopscience.iop.org/arti...

USGS Assessment of Brackish Water Could Help Nation Stretch Limited Freshwater Supplies ( USGS Press Release ; April 5, 2017) https://www.usgs.gov/news/usgs-assessment-brackish-water-could-help-nation-stretch-limited-freshwater-supplies Selected Research Articles : Brackish Groundwater in the United States (STANTON et al ., 2017) https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1833/pp1833.pdf The Cost of Alternative Water Supply and Efficiency Options in California (COOLEY and PHURISAMBAN, 2016) http://pacinst.org/app/uploads/2016/10/PI_TheCostofAlternativeWaterSupplyEfficiencyOptionsinCA.pdf Website : USGS National Brackish Groundwater Assessment https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/gwrp/brackishgw/index.html

Climate-addled jet streams boost drought, flood: study | AFP.com Featured Research Article : Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance  and Extreme Weather Events (MANN et al. , 2017) http://www.nature.com/articles/srep45242.pdf

Top British universities found producing ‘fake research’ : Hundreds of allegations of “fake research” conducted at some of the UK’s top universities were reported between 2011 and 2016, figures show. Selected Research Articles: Researchers' Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century (FANELLI and LARIVIÈRE, 2016) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149504&type=printable Scientific Misconduct  (GROSS, 2016) http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/ethics/documents/introduction/gross15a.pdf Plagiarism in Scientific Publishing (MASIC, 2012) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558294/

USGS study finds new evidence of San Andreas Fault earthquakes | Temblor.net (David JACOBSON, Temblor ; March 3, 2017)

University of Alberta study looks at volume of urine in pools : If you’ve ever wondered how often people might be peeing in your local swimming pool, a new University of Alberta study has the answer.And the results are not pleasant.Researchers behind the study estimate that in one instance, swimmers had released nearly 75 litres of urine into a 833,000-litres pool, which is about one-third the size of an Olympic... (Keith GEREIN, Toronto Sun ; March 1, 2017) How Much Pee Is In That Pool? (Erika ENGELHAUPT, NPR News ; March 1, 2017) http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/01/517785902/just-how-much-pee-is-in-that-pool Research Article: Sweetened Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs (BLACKSTOCK et al. , 2017) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00043

NASA Data shows California's San Joaquin Valley Still Sinking (News, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; February 28, 2017) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6761 Selected Publications: Progress Report:  Subsidence in Central California March 2015 - September 2016 ( FARR et al. , 2016) http://www.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/docs/2017/JPL%20subsidence%20report%20final%20for%20public%20dec%202016.pdf Water Availability and Land Subsidence in Central Valley, California, USA ( FAUNT et al. , 2015) https://ca.water.usgs.gov/pubs/2015/FauntEtAl2015.pdf

Zealandia:  Earth's Hidden Continent ( MORTIMER et al. , 2017) https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/3/article/GSATG321A.1.htm Zealandia Topography , NOAA ; Link

http://china.org.cn/china/2017-02/06/content_40238107.htm ( Xinhua   News Agency ;  February 6, 2017) The Jiaolong Submersible: Jiaolong Submersible Returns with Findings from W Pacific (Newsroom,  Chinese Academy of Sciences ; July 14, 2016) http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/news/201607/t20160714_165691.shtml Jiaolong reaches 7,020 m beneath sea ( Xinhua/China Daily News ; June 24, 2012) http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/24/content_15519982.htm Selected Research Articles: Laser Raman detection of authigenic carbonates from cold seeps at Formosa Ridge and east of the Pearl River Mouth Basin in the South China Sea ( XI et al ., 2018 ) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367912018300294 Accepted Manuscript: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1367912018300294/1-s2.0-S1367912018300294-main.pdf?_tid=spdf-9874116c-6bc1-4796-b064-22adecb3e8ea&acdnat=1519847125_992d9f529ffc913a3f561c639cf0a57c Microbial Community Structure of Deep...

How you can see the lunar eclipse, snow moon, and New a Year Comet on the same night (Emily ALLEN, The Telegraph UK , February 6, 2017) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/0/can-see-lunar-eclipse-snow-moon-new-year-comet-night/ February's Deep Penumbral Lunar Eclipse (Alan MAC ROBERT, Sky &Telescope ; February 3, 2017) http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/feb-10th-penumbral-lunar-eclipse/ Preview:  Comet 45P/HONDA-MRKOS-PADJUŠKÁKOVÁ Brightens in December (David DICKINSON, Universe Today, Updated  February 3, 2017) http://www.universetoday.com/131745/preview-comet-45phonda-mrkos-pajdusakova-brightens-december/ Website : Full Moon Names:  Native American Names for Full Moons ( The Old Farmers Almanac ) http://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-names

"Lost Continent" Found Under Mauritius [ University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University) ; 31 January 2017] https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2017/2017-01/lost-continent-found-under-mauritius.html Nature Communications Research Article: Archaen zircons in Miocene oceanic hotspots rocks establish ancient continental crust beneath Mauritius (ASHWAL et al., 2017) http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14086.pdf

Update : Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies (Ben FINLEY, Associated Press ; February 24, 2020) https://apnews.com/d98cf149180d7fa7e103101288998b06 _______ NASA's Real 'Hidden Figures' (Elizabeth HOWELL, Space.com ; January 23, 2017) Also... NASA Mathematician Katherine JOHNSON makes People's List of Top 25 Women Changing the World ( People TV ; December 16, 2016) What's the true story behind Hidden Figures? (Based on a True Story Podcast; April 5, 2017)

Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionize technlogy and spaceflight   (Ian JOHNSTON, The   Independent UK ; January 27, 2017) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hydrogen-metal-revolution-technology-space-rockets-superconductor-harvard-university-a7548221.html Research Article: Observation of the Wigner-Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen ( DIAS and SILVERA , 2017) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01634.pdf

Study of past warming signals major sea level rise ahead (Kerry SHERIDAN, Phys.org ; January 19, 2017) https://phys.org/news/2017-01-major-sea.html Expert reaction to sea levels and sea surface temperatures ( Science Media Centre ; January 19, 2017) http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-sea-levels-and-sea-surface-temperatures/ Selected Research Article : Interglacials of the last 800,000 years (Past Interglacials Working Group of PAGES, 2016) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015RG000482/full Website : Glacial-Interglacial Cycles (National Centers for Environmental Information; NOAA ) https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Interglacial%20Cycles

K-12 Schools now have access to free water testing for lead (Kahtia HALL, KBAK Bakersfield Now ; January 17, 2017) http://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/k-12-schools-have-access-to-free-water-testing-for-lead California Water Systems to Provide Lead Testing for Schools (Media Release, California State Water Resources Control Board ; January 17, 2017) http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/leadsamplinginschools/pr011717_lead_test_schools.pdf