I’m confused on what’s being studied here. Was a sediment core collected in the field and then taken to the lab for what kind of seems to be routine sample preparation and analysis for analytes common of soil/sediment biogeochemistry studies? Or was this a lab-scale emulation of things mother nature does in a bigger…

Would “vertically” be along the longitudinal axis in terms of cylindrical coordinates? Other cylindrical coordinates of interest would be radial axis and angular position or azimuth.

Speaking of design basis for hard infrastructure (as mentioned above), Gizmodo could always try unboxing videos for selling reconciliation. The coveted demo loves those. 

If Planck’s law is too much of a head scratcher, there are some pretty good explainers for folks like me on the internet for complex heat engines like planet earth

That’s particularly true in places with lots of concrete, which is why you can fry an egg on the sidewalk on hot days, but trying to sous vide it using air temperatures only would get you nowhere.

Fougerouse also noted that different methods could be used to release the gold particles from their pyrite prison, which could be more energy efficient than the typical means of gold extraction, reactor-based oxidation, or smaller-scale methods like separating the gold from slag by smelting the ore.

Or family mimidae making sure this new cool tech never rises above the din.

Subsurface or subterranean or underground lake is kind of a confusing to me. Others, probably not so much. Would this subterranean waterbody be something like a cave lake? Would it be fed by the martian canals? Would martians be living along the cave-lake shores? Or are we talking the pore water (liquid or solid) held…

Dragon man to neanderthal man, “bro, do you even lift, bro?”

In 2019 about 276 million vehicles were registered in the US doing about 3.3 trillion vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on roughly 4.2 million miles of public roads, according to US DoT, FHA, Office of Highway Policy Information.

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Interesting and well thought out comment. Renewables projects from soup to nuts may require environmental assessment and/or environmental impact statement/report, too.

Brumation, bro? 

PV panel soiling or the study of mitigating it is science, too. Here on earth airborne particulate matter reducing PV solar panel efficiency is a pretty big problem now and going forward as more and more solar projects are deployed here, there and everywhere. A good selling point for public basic science is how it…

You’re enjoying a lovely morning of bird watching. Maybe you’re simply appreciating nature’s beauty for beauty’s sake. Then suddenly you’re approached by a serious birder who starts yammering on about entropy of entanglement and stuff.

Thank you.

Not to be the kinja scold who tells the author that the link to the study seems broken, but the link to the study seems broken. And I was all excited to read up on enthalpy and stuff.

Possibly the bigger and more aggressive elephants took the cannoli and bolted across the Sicily/mainland Italy landbridge before it was totally engulfed by the Mediterranean Sea - leaving behind the smaller and maybe somewhat docile elephants islanded without any delicious pastries. My interpretative paleontology and…

Your most excellent comment got me googling for more. I’m at square one as far as global nitrogen fixation budgeting QA/QC goes - since I just learned what the word holobiont means. I guess it really does take a village, though. 

Hopefully LST (land surface temperature) remote sensing (via satellite) is or will be more and more ground truthed (with in situ temperature measurement for example) in vaste remote areas of the world. Getting nuts-on with the earth’s energy budget is kind of a big deal going forward. The crazy math behind the…