Author: Sic

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6618

In 2011, the Khan Academy has over 2200 videos and over 1 million students a month.  This site is for everyone who can use a computer for self paces, validated learning.  I can’t recommend this enough, for you and your kids.

If you like ant stories …

via Ants trapped in nuclear bunker are developing their own society | New Scientist.

NASA just shared the most detailed images of Jupiter that humanity has ever seen, and no one was prepared for how unique the largest planet in our Solar System would be close-up.

http://www.sciencealert.com/these-closest-ever-images-of-jupiter-are-like-nothing-we-have-seen-before-says-nasa

An actual EM Drive is about to be launched into space for the first time, so scientists can finally figure out – once and for all – if it really is possible for a rocket engine to generate thrust without any kind of exhaust or propellant.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-impossible-em-drive-is-about-to-be-tested-in-space

This rift, which may threaten the stability of Larsen C, has grown significantly and rapidly during the Antarctic polar night.  It will shed an iceberg the size of Delaware.   The rift is now 22km longer than when satellites were last able to observe it in March of this year.  When this breaks free it will remove between nine and twelve percent of the ice shelf area and leave the ice front at its most retreated position ever.

via Project MIDAS | A growing rift on Larsen C.

Not only was the length of time our Solar System spent in the star’s remains surprising, it also coincides with an extinction event in Earth’s oceans, as well as a period of global cooling.

via Stardust trapped deep within the ocean has revealed a 2.6-million-year-old mystery – ScienceAlert.

On Aug. 13th in China, photographer Phebe Pan was photographing the night sky, hoping to catch a Perseid meteor. Instead, he witnessed a spectacular bolt of “space lightning.” Working atop Shi Keng Kong, the highest mountain peak in the Guangdong province, “I was using a fisheye lens to capture as much of the sky as possible,” says Pan. “Suddenly we saw a flash of blue and purple ejected from the top of a nearby thundercloud. It just looked like a tree with branches, and grew up very fast. So awesome!”

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=16&month=08&year=2016