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Frequency and distance of human travel follows universal pattern, mobile-phone data reveals

Physics World

Gravity and radiation. The radiation model adds the component of other places people could stop on their journeys: the less places there are to stop – to go shopping or to work, for example – the further people will travel. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Predictable and universal.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. Current efforts to limit any damage include steering satellites out of harm’s way or redirecting the power load of electrical grids. Read original article ? Download original article (pdf).

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The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron

Physics World

This involved varying the frequency of the radio frequency (RF) electric field in a cyclotron to account for the relativistic effects that otherwise limited the energy of protons in an accelerator (see box). Being partially buried would help with radiation shielding, as well as the 30 tonne door, and walls comprised of nearly 1.8

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

We should want to move up the energy ladder — from wood and dung to hydro-electric dams, liquified petroleum gas (to replace wood and dung), natural gas (to replace coal), and then, yes, nuclear energy — and not down the energy ladder, which is what Malthusian environmentalists advocate. Seven years later, the U.N. Why else use it?

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. Another amendment from Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) directs NSF to fund research about graduate student mental health and well-being. An amendment from Rep.

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