Seeing Inside Nuclei and Volcanoes on Venus (Patreon)

Using Entanglement to See Inside Nuclei

Researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the U.S. have successfully tested a new way of peeking into atomic nuclei. Rather than trying to figure out directly what goes on, they measure photons that have become entangled with gluons in the nuclei. This method might help us better understand how nuclei hold together and develop behaviors and properties such as spin or magnetic moments. Press release here. Paper here.

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A Map of Volcanoes on Venus

Two planetary scientists from Washington University in St. Louis used radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission to create a map of volcanoes on Venus. There are a staggering 85,000 of them. Press release here, paper here, database here.

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Methane Just Got More Complicated

Methane is a greenhouse gas, right? Yes, right. But a new study now argues that methane also leads to the creation of clouds, and that process offsets a small part of the heating from the methane. This finding needs to be confirmed by other studies, but it highlights that climate science is far from done and dusted. Press release here, paper here.