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Jorge Salazar

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Jorge Salazar has conducted thousands of in-depth interviews with scientists in the process of creating science content for EarthSky. He also helps host the 90-second EarthSky podcasts. Jorge has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He knows a lot about a lot of different things. For EarthSky, he has explored subjects as diverse as nanotechnology, ecosystem-based management, climate change, global health, international environmental treaties, astrophysics and cosmology, and environmental security. His penetrating research style, poetic writing, and ability to track down and speak with Nobel prize-winning laureates, all make him a huge asset to EarthSky.

Hole-punch clouds are made by jets

By and in Earth | Human World | 2 years ago
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Sometimes people report them as UFOs, but they’re called hole-punch clouds and they’re made by jets. The connection between hole-punch clouds, jets and snowfall.

Top 4 facts about landslides

By in Earth | Human World | 5 years ago
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Last weekend’s fatal mudslide in Washington state obliterated the village of Oso, Washington and left a trail of devastation in its wake. On Tuesday, the death toll stood at 14.

This date in science: Pluto gets a demotion

By in Space | 5 years ago
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On August 24, 2006, astronomers voted to demote Pluto to dwarf planet status. Hear from Alan Stern, lead scientist on a space mission to Pluto.

Kathryn Reese-Taylor on the Mayan calendar and 2012 doomsday prophesies

By in Human World | 6 years ago
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EarthSky spoke with a professor of Mayan archaeology about the supposed connection between an ancient Mayan calendar and 2012 doomsday prophecies.

James Holden explores life thriving in deep, hot undersea vents

By in Earth | 6 years ago
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Deep in cracks of hot undersea volcanoes, microbes inhale hydrogen and carbon dioxide and exhale methane. They might help scientists understand life beyond Earth.

Peter Claggett sees changes to Chesapeake Bay with Landsat

By in Earth | 6 years ago
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Landsat has been observing the landscape of the vast 64,000 square miles of watershed in Chesapeake Bay for decades.

Stéphane Udry: Evidence of billions of rocky, habitable planets in our galaxy

By and in Space | 6 years ago
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Astronomers have found evidence that billions of rocky planets might orbit the habitable zones around red dwarf stars in our Milky Way.

Harold Huff develops meat-like soy chicken

By in Human World | 6 years ago
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A soy chicken product with something new – what food scientists call ‘the right chew.’

Andrew Leakey studies grasses for biofuels

By in Human World | 6 years ago
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Andrew Leakey is part of a five-year, $12 million study of grasses useful for biofuels that can grow with as little land, fertilizer, and water as possible.

World’s biggest astronomy project: ALMA telescope

By and in Space | 6 years ago
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What better goal for the world’s biggest telescope than to probe details of how stars like our sun and planets like Earth came to be?