Monthly Archives: November 2021

Weird rocky exoplanets

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Chris Rowan

Obtaining the composition of rocky exoplanets from the spectral signature produced when their dying parent star eats them is already pretty mind-blowing. But the results – which suggest that on some of these worlds, quartz is substituted for olivine in their … Continue reading →

Categories: geology, planets, rocks & minerals

How to spend a lot of money on a problem without making any progress in solving it, nuclear fusion edition

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Chris Rowan

I’ve been known on occasion to mock fusion for being eternally 25 years in the future, and this article on the latest potential advances doesn’t really help me assess how credible the people and approaches that star in it actually are. But … Continue reading →

Categories: climate crisis, society