Politics & Current Affairs — September 5, 2009

The importance to recognize energy as first priority.

Research on tech to harvest unlimited sources of energy.

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What about using solar panel to harvest and redirect light by nanowires (millions) and amplified it to nanolaser beam , the laser beams concentrate in a nanocell and create enough heat to create nanofusion … small amount at a time…

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Ask Ethan: How do scientists color the Universe?

When we see pictures from Hubble or JWST, they show the Universe in a series of brilliant colors. But what do those colors really tell us?

Comparison of early Mars with abundant water and a thicker atmosphere versus the dry and arid Mars of today, much like Venus, which also died in terms of its potential to support life.

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Mars could have lived, even without a magnetic field

Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.

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Infinite Cosmos: The inside story behind JWST

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

A vivid depiction of a cosmic event showing a jet of orange and red energy extending from a bright source in the vastness of space, surrounded by stars and interstellar matter.

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Longest, strongest black hole jets of all-time discovered

With the discovery of Porphyrion, we’ve now seen black hole jets spanning 24 million light-years: the scale of the cosmic web.

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Why the electron’s mass is vital to life in the Universe

Most fundamental constants could be a little larger or smaller, and our Universe would still be similar. But not the mass of the electron.

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