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Ultimate Tree Care Guide For Homesteading

If  you want to plant and grow your own trees this year then you’re in luck. This Tree Care Guide infographic is everything you’ve hoped for and more. Check it out below! Tree Care Guide Trees complete any homestead. They give shade, fruit and creates a great ambiance altogether. But did you know that there’s…Continue Reading
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132 grams to communicate with Mars

Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night … Mars is not very hospitable! It’s for these extreme conditions that the research team of Christophe Craeye, a professor at the UCLouvain Louvain School of Engineering, developed antennas for the ‘LaRa’ measuring instrument (Lander Radioscience ), which will go to Mars in 2020. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-11-grams-mars.html…

Why don’t evergreen trees change color and drop their leaves?

As temperatures drop, broad-leafed deciduous trees – think maples and oaks – withdraw the green chlorophyll from their leaves. Their leaves turn colors and fall. Evergreens solve the problem of winter in a different way. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-dont-evergreen-trees-change-drop-leaves…

Mid-sized storms spotted on Saturn

An international team of researchers has found that mid-sized storms form near Saturn’s northern pole. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes discovering four of the mid-sized storms near the planet’s northern polar region last year and their study of them. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-mid-sized-storms-saturn.html…

Solar storm surveys by ancient Assyrian astronomers

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba study ancient cuneiform records for evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago, and identify three possible magnetic storms by matching the dates with tree-ring radioisotope data Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-solar-storm-surveys-ancient-assyrian.html…

10 amazing places for year-round stargazing

The stars are accessible to everyone, but where can you get the most from the night sky? Here are 10 great dark-sky places – mostly in the U.S. but also in Australia, New Zealand and Chile – for skywatching and stargazing. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/10-amazing-places-for-year-round-stargazing…

Extreme solar storms may be more frequent than previously thought

Researchers propose in a new study why an extreme solar storm in 1859 was so damaging to Earth’s magnetic field. They compared the storm with other extreme storms in history, suggesting this storm is not likely unique. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-10-extreme-solar-storms-frequent-previously.html…

Researchers to spend a year trapped in Arctic ice

In October 2019, the research icebreaker Polarstern will drop anchor at an ice floe in the northern Laptev Sea, to spend a year investigating Earth’s Arctic. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/arctic-science-expedition-2019-2020-polarstern…

Earth’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Higher, And It’s Accelerating, UN Report Warns

According to a new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ocean warming is accelerating and sea levels are rising more quickly. “The report is a synthesis of the most up-to-date climate science on oceans and ice, and it lays out a stark reality: Ocean surface temperatures have been warming steadily since 1970, and for the past 25 years…