Daniela Breitman

Daniela Breitman - a Canadian writer, formerly with From Quarks to Quasars - is currently studying Applied Sciences with the goal of becoming an astrophysicist. An amateur photographer, she also loves writing and literature and is a huge science fiction fan. In fact, she's passionate about many things.

Sally Ride: 1st American woman in space

Posted by Daniela Breitman, Deborah Byrd and Paul Scott Anderson in Human World | Space | 3 weeks ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman, Deborah Byrd and Paul Scott Anderson

Ride was the 1st American woman to go to space, flying on the STS-7 space shuttle Challenger mission in 1983, and later on another mission in 1984.

Edmond Halley’s magnificent prediction

Posted by Daniela Breitman and Deborah Byrd in Human World | Space | 8 months ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman and Deborah Byrd

Born on today’s date in the year 1656, English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was the first to predict the return of a comet. Today, Halley’s Comet – the most famous of all comets – bears his name.

Today in science: Comet Hale-Bopp

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Human World | Space | 1 year ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

The last widely seen comet for the Northern Hemisphere was Hale-Bopp in 1996-97. Did you see it?

Today in science: Galileo’s birthday

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Human World | 1 year ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

Happy 455th birthday to one of the first modern scientists, Galileo. With the aid of an early telescope, he helped remove Earth from the center of the universe.

Today in science: Carl Sagan’s birthday

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Human World | Space | 3 years ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

For many, for decades, Carl Sagan’s name was synonymous with astronomy.

Gravitational anomaly seen in lab crystal

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Human World | 3 years ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

An exotic effect in particle physics, theorized to occur in immense gravitational fields — near a black hole, or in conditions just after the Big Bang — has been seen in laboratory crystal.

Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician, dies at 40

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Human World | 3 years ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

She was an outstanding mathematician and first woman to receive the prestigious Fields Medal. Maryam Mirzakhani died on July 14 after a several-year battle with breast cancer.

Wow! signal explained after 40 years?

Posted by Daniela Breitman in Space | 3 years ago

Posted by Daniela Breitman

New evidence suggests the well-known Wow! signal from 1977 – long thought by some to be a sign of extraterrestrial life – was in fact generated by a passing comet.