A Better Look At Asteroid 216 Kleopatra
Nearly 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System began forming from a disk of material that surrounded a new star – our Sun. The transition…
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Dodo Bird Meets Goldilocks: Psychotherapy And The Placebo Effect
In Alice in Wonderland (Chapter III, “A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale”), Alice viewed a race among all animals initiated by the Dodo bird. “……
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Women’s Neurology
Women’s Neurology examines neurologic disorders through a gender-based lens. There is a lack of knowledge about how sex and gender may affect neurological illnesses as…
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Deducing Jupiter’s Stratospheric Circulation From Its Composition
Jupiter is the king of all planets in the Solar System. It is the largest one, mostly composed of gas, and is thought to have…
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Solar Photoactive Materials For Hydrogen Generation And Water Treatment
Solar photoactive material like TiO2 has a wide range of applications. It can be used in photovoltaic (PV) cells, hydrogen generation, water treatment, and much…
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Initial Evolution Of The North Polar Cap Of Mars Revealed By Orbital Radar
The poles of Mars host massive amounts of water ice in the form of polar caps, much like Earth’s Antarctica. In the north, a ~1.5…
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A Closer Look At The Surface Of Mars
The nature of many of the rocks and materials on the surface of Mars remains mysterious. Volcanism has played an important role in forming many…
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Hypotheses About The Timeline Of Impacts On The Lunar Surface
Determining the ages of planetary surfaces and events is no easy task. Surfaces are often layered in deposits from more recent activity. This fact is…
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When Rock Meets Life
It all started in 2005 during a trip to the United States, where I went to a famous conference in geochemistry (Goldschmidt Conference, Moscow, Idaho)….
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Indigenous Peoples’ Right To Land Can Help In Achieving Conservation Goals
Indigenous people make up about five percent of the world’s population, residing in 70 countries with minimum or no management control over their land, resources,…
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How To Be An “Isolated” Researcher In Renewables And Not Die
I am an engineer with a Ph.D. in nuclear technology. I worked in the Argentinean National Atomic Commission for fifteen years, researching fluidized beds, boiling…
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