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These California Women Are Trailblazing The Legal Weed Industry
The Oakland-based collective Supernova Women is working to inform, support, demonstrate and advocate on behalf of communities disproportionately affected by the war on drugs. Their aim is to push local government to create more opportunities for people of color and those convicted of cannabis-related offenses in the early stages of a booming industry.
Credits: Dope Magazine, Alison Heckard Simply Pure MJ, 72 Business Portraits, Josh Fogel, Ashlen Price, Dr. Rachel Knox
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This Is What The Future Of Legal Weed Looks Like
By Amanda Duberman
The industry is growing fast, and women of color are setting the terms.
SCIENCE
What Is Life?
By Jeff Schweitzer, Contributor
Scientist, former White House Senior Policy Analyst, Ph.D in n...
Zombies and the walking dead make for good copy, but do little to advance our understanding of life and death. Unfortunately, neither did the National Geographic with a cover article entitled, "The Science of Death: Coming Back from the Beyond."
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SCIENCE
This Is What It Looks Like When A Star Explodes
By Steven Hoffer
KABOOM!
SCIENCE
Scientists Cut Uncertainty of the Size of the Universe in Half
By Don Lincoln, Contributor
LHC physics researcher and science popularizer. He writes book...
The study used supernovae within about 400 million light years of Earth, which is a relatively small fraction of the size of the visible universe, but it is hoped that future studies will significantly improve our measurements of even more distant supernovae.
SCIENCE
Ancient Supernova Explosion At The Center Of Our Galaxy Created Enough Dust To Make 7,000 Earths
By Macrina Cooper-White
A paper describing the research was published online on March 19 in Science. By taking detailed infrared images of the dust
SCIENCE
A Gold Digger's Guide to the Universe
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, Contributor
Astronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium
We all love gold, but the best and fastest way to get more of it is by doing what we have been doing for thousands of years. Learn geology, get lucky, and hope for a gold vein!
SCIENCE
The Betelgeuse Supernova
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, Contributor
Astronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium
Astronomers have been waiting for this for a long time, and at some time in the not so distant future the brilliant red star in the constellation Orion will explode. What will it look like?
SCIENCE
Supernovas May Create Weird 'Zombie Stars,' New Hubble Observations Suggest
By Space.com, Space.com
These new findings may shed light on the origins of a mysterious kind of star explosion known as a Type Iax supernova, the
SCIENCE
Strange Supernova Casts Doubt On Star Explosion Theories
By Space.com, Space.com
The other possibility is a helium white dwarf, orbiting close enough to a companion white dwarf that it nearly grazes it
SCIENCE
Supernova May Hold Clues To Origins Of Cosmic Dust
By Jacqueline Howard
To their surprise, the astronomers found that the dust particles were enormous by Milky Way standards, measuring 1 to 4.2
SCIENCE
Supernova Discovery Shows How Biggest & Brightest Stars Die
By Space.com, Space.com
These findings shed light on the star explosions that provide the universe with the ingredients for planets and life, the
ENTERTAINMENT
Ray LaMontagne's 'Supernova': 'The Most Pure Me Record I've Ever Done'
By Ryan Kristobak
“It wasn’t until I wrote ‘Supernova’ that I thought, 'Okay, this is interesting to me.’ To me that song has that conciseness
SCIENCE
'Supernova' Cave Art Was No Such Thing, Astronomer Says
By Macrina Cooper-White
When Miller published his work he acknowledged that his evidence was circumstantial, but that didn’t stop the supernova artwork
SCIENCE
Has NASA's Kepler Space Probe Solved Mystery Of Exploding Stars?
By Macrina Cooper-White
They are cosmic detonations that briefly outshine the light of entire galaxies. And they were a crucial tool in the discovery
SCIENCE
ALMA's Awesome Supernova Photo Will Remind You Of Just How Beautiful The Universe Really Is
By Space.com, Space.com
Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookand Google+. Original article on SPACE.com
SCIENCE
Star of Bethlehem: Heavenly and Scientific Mystery
By Dean Regas, Contributor
Astronomer, Author, and Co-Host of Star Gazers
At this time of year, people often ask for my astronomical/religious opinion: "What was the Star of Bethlehem?" What was this heavenly sign that a savior, that a Messiah, that Jesus was born? Can modern science prove what this object really was?
SCIENCE
The Nearest Supernova in Modern Times
By Mario Livio, Contributor
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Supernova explosions occur when the dense core of a massive star collapses to form a neutron star (a very compact object, only about 12 miles in diameter), producing copious amounts of neutrinos in the process.
SCIENCE
The Perseids: Our Connection to the Stars
By Jim Moore, Contributor
Journalist, audiobook narrator, editor and photojournalist
It is time for the Perseid meteor shower, August's illuminating pre-dawn treat for sky gazers. The fiery streaks of dust and sand-sized bits of grit are the sparkling wake residue of comet Swift-Tuttle, last seen in northern hemisphere skies in 1992.
SCIENCE
'Nuclear Pasta' In Neutron Stars May Be New Type Of Matter, Astronomers Say
By Space.com, Space.com
"Making this connection between the observational astronomical effect, which is the existence of this upper spin period limit
SCIENCE
Star Explosion Sets Record As Highest-Energy Gamma-Ray Burst (VIDEO)
Swift's detection of this burst was delayed. The satellite was moving between cosmic targets at the time of the eruption
SCIENCE
Supernova Remnant SNR 0519: Deep Space Explosion Photo Shows Ghostly Remains Of White Dwarf Star (UPDATED)
Get larger sizes here This photo of the supernova remnant, which is located about 150,000 light years from Earth in the southern
SCIENCE
Meteorites, Supernova Linked After Rare Silica Grains Identified In Antarctic Space Rocks
These are the first such grains found in primitive meteorites, and are distinct because of the type of oxygen contained in
SCIENCE
Supernova 'Way Too Bright' To Analyze Sparks Astronomy Debate
“Right away I got a perfect match to a type Ia supernova,” Quimby says. “But it was way too bright.” A type Ia supernova
SCIENCE
Kepler Supernova, Famous 1604 Star Explosion, May Have Been Triggered By White Dwarf
To get a better picture of the star's makeup before it blew up, Badenes and colleagues probed the chemical signatures in
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