When coupled volcanoes talk, these researchers listen

“After extensive fieldwork, scientists reached a conclusion: Two-thirds of Katmai had disappeared because this opening had stolen Katmai’s magma. The idea was controversial because volcanoes were always thought to act independently, tapping their own supplies of molten, eruptible rock. But Katmai and the opening, dubbed Novarupta, offered the first real clue that volcanoes could be connected, or ‘coupled.’”

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New theory says we’ve been overcomplicating the Big Bang

“In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, physicists at the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute in Canada propose a new theory that the rapid expansion of the universe in its earliest moments aligns nicely with another model for quantum gravity. According to the team’s mathematical predictions, the Big Bang emerges rather naturally from the theory, called quadratic gravity, a revised account of Einstein’s standard theory of gravity.”

Gizmodo »

Can we fight climate change by storing CO2 in the ocean?

“Founded in 2019, Planetary Technologies is at the vanguard of an emerging worldwide effort to squirrel away industrial carbon emissions in the ocean …The world’s window for limiting global warming beyond catastrophic levels is fast closing. Experts increasingly agree that to prevent runaway climate change and to reach net-zero emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere, we need to look beyond phasing out fossil fuels: We also need to remove carbon that’s already been emitted.”

Knowable Magazine »

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How I rewired my brain to become fluent in math

“Learning math and then science as an adult gave me passage into the empowering world of engineering. But these hard-won, adult-age changes in my brain have also given me an insider’s perspective on the neuroplasticity that underlies adult learning. Fortunately, my doctoral training in systems engineering — tying together the big picture of different STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) disciplines — and then my later research and writing focusing on how humans think have helped me make sense of recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive psychology related to learning.”

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