Новости за 21.05.2020

Neel Patel, MIT Tech Review
The moon is a treasure trove of valuable resources. Gold, platinum, and many rare earth metals await extraction to be used in next-generation electronics. Non-radioactive helium-3 could one day power nuclear fusion reactors. But there's one resource in particular that has excited scientists, rocket engineers, space agency officials, industry entrepreneursvirtually anyone with a vested interest in making spaceflight to distant worlds more affordable. It's water.

Brian Koberlein, Universe Today
On a cool Summer morning in 1908, a fireball appeared over Northern Siberia. Eyewitnesses described a column of blue light that moved across the sky, followed by a tremendous explosion. The explosion leveled trees across more than 2,000 square kilometers.

Jerry Coyne, Ev Is True
Subrena Smith, an assistant professor of philosophy at The University of New Hampshire, has made a bold claim in the journal Biological Theory (click on screenshot below). She claims to have found a fatal flaw in the practice of evolutionary psychology, one that renders the entire discipline impossible. Click below to read the article for free:

Caroline Delbert, Pop Mech
The Department of Energy (DoE) has started a new Office of Nuclear Energy project called the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP). The $230 million program will give $160 million to scientists working on two reactor designs that can be operational in the very near future.