A rare piece of positive pipeline news for Canada

[ad_1] Enbridge is approaching the potential start of construction in the United States for the Line 3 replacement. This replacement is designed to transport increased volumes of Canadian crude oil to the US market following the announcement by the US Army Corps of Engineers. federal permit approvals for the project. Enbridge Line 3 Replacement project … Read more

SpaceX sent Falcon 9 rocket on seventh space trip

[ad_1] On Tuesday evening, SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink Internet satellites from the company’s orbiting space, using a highly space-resistant Falcon 9 rocket for the job. This launch marked the rocket’s seventh flight to space and back – the first time SpaceX has put such an experienced vehicle into orbit. The Falcon 9 … Read more

Lightning ‘Superbolts’ Are Real, Two New Studies Confirm Geophysics, geoscience

[ad_1] “ Superbolts ” are distinct from typical lightning bolts and can be over 1,000 times brighter, according to two new papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. This image from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper shows a lightning bolt producing super-voltages over the southeastern United States on February 19, 2019. The lightning traveled … Read more

China claims ‘space superpower’ status with moon launch

[ad_1] China’s Chang’e-5 lunar exploration mission took off on Tuesday, the first leg of what Chinese space scientists are calling a “very long and even perilous walk” to land on the moon and bring back samples from the lunar surface. The early morning launch from Wenchang Cosmodrome off the southern seaside island of Hainan was … Read more

Global society reacts to the loss of Arecibo …

[ad_1] The Planetary Society’s connections to Arecibo include SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. In 1981, NASA and the Company teamed up to fund Suitcase SETI, a portable spectrum analyzer that could be installed on large radio telescopes like Arecibo. The project spurred many other efforts of the SETI Company, including SERENDIP, a collaboration with … Read more

COVID-19 virus survives on surfaces in a thin film

[ad_1] Diagram of a thin liquid film drying on a surface and comparison of the time varying film thickness with a coronavirus titer (the lowest concentration of virus that still infects cells) on plastic. Credit: R. Bhardwaj and A. Agrawal How does the COVID-19 virus manage to survive on surfaces? To find out, Indian researchers … Read more