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A Dutch schoolteacher clicking through galaxy images on a volunteer website in 2007 flagged a green smudge she couldn't identify and asked what it was. It turned out to be a cloud of gas lit by a quasar that had already switched off, and astronomers named the object after her. (opens the original)
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In August 2007, a 25-year-old primary school teacher in the Netherlands called Hanny van Arkel was working her way through the online classification queue of a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, which had been asking members of the public to look at individual galaxy images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and sort them into categories like spiral or elliptical. She had signed up because Brian May, the guitarist from Queen, had mentioned Galaxy Zoo on his personal website, and she was a
Verkhoyansk recorded 38°C in June 2020, the highest temperature ever measured inside the Arctic Circle. The same town holds a record of minus 67.8°C, which gives it the largest temperature range of anywhere on Earth. (opens the original)
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On the 20th of June 2020, the weather station in Verkhoyansk, in the north of Russia’s Sakha Republic, recorded a daily maximum air temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, or roughly 100 Fahrenheit. Verkhoyansk sits about 115 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in a landscape where the ground is permafrost and the summer growing season is measured in weeks. The reading was unusual enough that the World Meteorological Organization spent roughly eighteen months verifying it before formally recognizi
Hopi farmers have grown maize in northern Arizona on roughly 250 millimetres of rain a year with no irrigation at all, by planting seed up to 30 centimetres deep to reach stored moisture. The varieties they use have been selected for that depth over centuries and won't germinate the same way anywher (opens the original)
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The standard number that conventional crop scientists give for growing corn is thirty inches of rainfall a year, roughly 760 millimetres. That’s the figure the farming press has repeated for decades, and it’s the assumption baked into most of the maize varieties on sale in North America. On the Hopi mesas in northeastern Arizona, the annual rainfall is between six and ten inches, or 150 to 250 millimetres. Hopi farmers have been growing corn there without irrigation for at least two thousand yea
Barcelona groups nine city blocks together and pushes through traffic out to the perimeter, leaving the interior streets to people. Measurements inside the completed superblocks show falls in nitrogen dioxide and noise, without the surrounding roads seizing up as predicted. (opens the original)
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When Barcelona announced in 2015 that it planned to close hundreds of city streets to through-traffic and push all the flow out to the perimeter of nine-block clusters, the immediate objection was that the surrounding roads would gridlock. Cars need to go somewhere, the argument ran, and pushing them off one street would just overwhelm the next. Nearly a decade later, the measurements are in on three completed pilots, and that prediction hasn’t held up. Nitrogen dioxide has fallen inside the pac
Between 1946 and 1993 European countries dumped an estimated 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste into the northeast Atlantic, most of it in water kilometres deep. Ocean dumping was banned in 1993, and surveys are only now going down to find out what happened to the drums. (opens the original)
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The practice was legal, coordinated, and internationally sanctioned throughout the period it was in operation. Over roughly four decades from the late 1940s to 1982, a number of European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany, deliberately transported low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste to designated dump sites in the deep ocean and deposited it there in sealed drums. The stated rationale was that the abyssal ocean, a
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