Category Archives: Science
These tiny organisms are reprogramming your brain to crave chocolate cake
It’s barbecue season in Maine, and it’s hard to resist that extra scoop full of homemade potato salad someone brought over, or that slice of blueberry pie. Or a second cheeseburger. And look, someone brought a chocolate ice cream cake. According to a report published in the molecular biology journal BioEssays and later highlighted by […]
The journey from Mexico to Maine, as seen from space
The crew of Expedition 42 — which was doing research aboard the International Space Station this winter — took this amazing video of a night-time view of the U.S. from space. It follows the ISS’s orbital path from Mexico City to New England at night — and you can even see what looks like the Northern […]
New sea-level rise forecast is alarming: Here are 10 maps showing how Maine’s coastline could change
According to a report this week in Slate, a team led by the former lead NASA scientist on climate change is now forecasting a much more rapid and dramatic rise in sea level than was previously expected. James Hansen’s 16-person team of researchers has concluded that, as Slate reports, “glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will […]
Compared to Maine, this is just how far away and cold Pluto really is
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made solar system history this week when it successfully flew by Pluto. It has traveled longer and farther — over 3 billion miles in nine-and-a-half years — than any space mission before. The flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons will give scientists a close look at a region of space that may […]