Follow the water! Cassini is now part of Saturn, but its legacy will last as long as there are properly sorted electrons in our database:
The mystery of why the ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus did not freeze over long ago may now be solved — heat from the scraping of rock churning within the fragmented core of Enceladus could keep its underground ocean warm for up to billions of years, a new study finds.
And speaking of deep space, there are more marvelous images of mighty Jupiter, king of the planets, at the EarthSky writeup here.
[T]he first president of Facebook has a disturbing warning about the social network: "God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."
- There is said to be no danger from the radioactive cloud produced in Russia and now drifting over parts of Europe. Per usual, until verified, be skeptical.
- Really bad luck for the non avian dinos, and really good luck for our little primate ancestors:
They found that the site where the asteroid struck was particularly dense in hydrocarbons—87 percent of the planet surface was less dense. That means, they claim, that if the asteroid had struck a place where it was less dense (which would have been almost anywhere else), much less soot would have been generated, and thus, the planet would not have cooled as much.
- I might write an article later this year on the technology that transformed the world over each of the last several decades. What do you think that technology should be for decades gone by, or might be for the decade to come?