Climate scientists at the University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin have teamed up to study the extent of glaciation in Ireland during the last ice age. Their research will inform and improve future climate models and predictions.

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Climate change and extractive industries have decimated Ireland's peat bogs. Archaeologists, environmentalists, and developers are clashing over how to steward them for the future.

"Ticking time bogs: How to save a vast archive of human history—and a vital carbon sink," by @francesmack.bsky.social.

Dr. Jim Green, a retired NASA scientist, discusses the possibility of terraforming other planets in the solar system. The idea of living on the red planet under a giant magnetic shield makes me think of the Biosphere 2 experiment.

According to Scientific American's astrobiologist sources, we may have plausible evidence of extraterrestrial life by the end of the next decade.

Experiments designed by Lehigh University researchers are being sent to the International Space Station.
The data and analysis of these experiments may help scientists detect the presence of diseases in bodily fluids in the future.

A cool video about Bennu's arrival last week!

I think my next read will be The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel! It focuses on a group of women employed by the Harvard Observatory in the mid-1800s to interpret the findings of the university's astronomers. These women ended up making their own stellar discoveries.

A team of Japanese astronomers recently discovered clumps of dark matter between far-away galaxies. Their findings prove previous theories that dark matter is made up of "cold," slow-moving particles.

The Seneca Falls Women's History Museum's collection includes a spacesuit worn by astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission.
I remember visiting years ago and reading about her accomplishments and being so inspired to pursue a career in science.

Astronaut Frank Rubio returned to Earth after 371 days, that's 5,963 orbits, in space.

A group of amateur astronomers were recently recognized for their photo, "Andromeda, Unexpected." The photo revealed a large, hazy plasma arc next to the Andromeda galaxy that scientists had never seen before.

Past missions, like Hayabusa2, have brought back asteroid regolith with traces of RNA-building proteins and signs that asteroid impacts may have brought water to Earth. Who knows what we will learn from this Bennu sample? #OSIRISREx

I recently read
Andy Weir's The Martian, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys science fiction or has an interest in astronomy. The radical challenges faced by Mark Watney and his creative solutions kept the plot moving and kept me curious and engaged!

The NASA Osiris Rex spacecraft returned to Earth this past Sunday, after a seven year journey around the solar system, with half a pound of dirt.

The dirt is from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and scientists believe it may hold cosmological secrets.