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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars

Physics World

Not enough people know that the cosmic importance of hydrogen was first grasped by a young PhD student, Cecilia Payne (Payne-Gaposchkin after she married), who in 1925 discovered hydrogen in the stars. Her father died when she was four, but her mother Emma saw that she had a gifted child who wanted to be a scientist. Young scientist.

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Did Biden have to approve the Willow oil project?

Legal Planet

Trustees of Alaska and other groups opposed to the Willow project released a statement saying that “authorization of the project comes after a deficient supplemental environmental review process that failed to assess the intense and cumulative impacts of the project on Arctic communities, lands and water, wildlife, and the global climate.”