In parts of Antarctica, Not Only Is It Winter, But The Sun Can Spend Weeks Below The Horizon.At China's Zhongshan

“Space Train” Concept Could Get Humans to Mars in Two Days, If Only It Would Work

XKCD has been tapped to teach high schoolers science

What if your most fearsome high school subjects like physics, chemistry and biology could be explained in humorous stick-figure drawings? That is exactly what textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hopes to do by hiring 31-year-old artist and XKCD creator Randall Munroe to illustrate lessons. But wait, the collaboration gets even better for students.

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Patricia Cowings (b. 1948) is an aerospace psychophysiologist, and the first African American woman trained as an astronaut by NASA. She conducted important research over many years at the NASA Ames Research Center in the fields of psychology and physiology.

Her research allowed cosmonauts to learn voluntary self-control to bodily responses, and cure motion sickness in space. She has trained space crews and helped improve their performance and wellbeing during missions. She has received several awards for her contributions to technology and development.

Perseid Fireball at Sunset Crater

Can You Tell if Your Therapist Has Empathy?

New software developed by researchers detects a person’s ability to understand or share feelings in therapy sessions.

The research is in PLOS ONE. (full open access)

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Paris climate talks, and more!

Scientists Are Working on a Real-Life Invisibility Cloak

An actual invisibility cloak? We may be getting close. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created the “Rochester Cloak,” a device that effectively makes the object behind it invisible by making light move around it. http://futurism.com/videos/scientists-working-real-life-invisibility-cloak/

What’s Up for September 2016

We won’t have a solar eclipse until Aug. 21, 2017, but observers in central Africa will see an annular eclipse, where the moon covers most but not all of the sun, on Sept. 1. Observers always need to use safe solar eclipse glasses or filters on telescopes, binoculars and cameras.

Also this month, there are two minor meteor showers, both with about 5 swift and bright meteors per hour at their peak, which will be near dawn. The first is the Aurigid shower on Sept. 1. The new moon on the first means the sky will be nice and dark for the Aurigids. 

The second shower is the Epsilon Perseids on Sept. 9. The first quarter moon sets on the 9th at midnight, just in time for the best viewing of the Perseids.

There are many nice pair-ups between the moon and planets this month. You can see the moon between Venus and Jupiter on Sept. 2, and above Venus on the 3rd, right after sunset low on the West-Southwest horizon. On the 15th the nearly full moon pairs up with Neptune, two weeks after its opposition, when the 8th planet is closest to Earth in its orbit around the sun.

Watch the full September “What’s Up” video for more: 

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So i was carrying a chemical that was 12 on the pH scale and it fell

I guess you could say I dropped the base