🌎 Scientists Propose a Massive Moon Dust Shield to Combat Climate Change

Feb. 13, 2023

A paper published last week seems out of this world: Researchers proposed that extremely large quantities of moon dust could be used to create a shield between Earth and the Sun — one significant enough, they say, to offset some of the effects of climate change. The Lunar dust, the researchers propose would be launched to reach Earth's first Lagrange point, also known as L1, which is where the gravitational pull between the Sun and Earth is equal. Read more about this proposal below.

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Scientists Proposed a Massive Moon Dust Shield to Combat Climate Change. Could It Really Work?

In 1991, the Philippine volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted, sending millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere — and kicking off the modern era of thinking about geoengineering. Solar radiation management, the process of modifying the amount of sunlight that warms the Earth, has been an ongoing topic of early-stage scientific investigation and debate.

But a paper published Friday in PLOS Climate argues that the best place to start looking at cooling the Earth might not be on the Earth at all. It might be the moon — at least that’s what a team led by Benjamin Bromley, an astrophysicist at the University of Utah, argues.

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‘The Flash’ Trailer Uses the Speed Force to Reset the DC Universe

The Speed Force came to the Super Bowl.

During Super Bowl LVII, Warner Bros. Discovery unleashed the trailer for The Flash, a movie that has gone without a hitch and no controversies whatsoever.

Just kidding. The Flash is one of Warner and DC’s biggest releases of the year, not the least of which is due to notoriety over star Ezra Miller.

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Every New TV and Movie Trailer revealed at the 2023 Super Bowl

The Super Bowl also happens to be the Super Bowl of new movie and TV trailers. From long-standing franchises like Marvel and DC to possible new power players like Dungeons and Dragons and one-off adventures like Cocaine Bear, the Big Game is the perfect place to reveal new looks at the most anticipated releases of the year.

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How ‘The Last of Us’ Avoided Becoming “Disaster Porn”

In The Last of Us, the world ended in 2003. The HBO show’s post-apocalyptic society is one built on scraps, trash, and Gore/Liberman t-shirts — held together by duct tape and a will to survive. It’s what made the world of Naughty Dog’s 2013 acclaimed game so appealing. And it’s what made production designer John Paino the perfect person for the job of bringing that world to life.

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Detox
Does Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder Actually Work?

The “winter blues” is more than just a colloquialism; for some people, the winter months come with something they don’t necessarily have for the rest of the year — depression. People who already have a depressive disorder can be affected as well; for some, their symptoms may become more severe in the winter months. It’s called seasonal affective disorder, or the almost too-on-the-nose acronym, SAD.

Formally named in 1982, SAD has been associated not just with the winter months but specifically with the lack of sunlight that comes with this time. The paper published in 1982 recounted the case of a patient with seasonal cycles of depression and mania whose symptoms were alleviated with artificial lighting. For the next 40 years, researchers would continue to study artificial light as a treatment for SAD.

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Science
NASA Might Finally Solve the Million-Degree Mystery of the Sun's Corona

The Sun is full of mysteries. A close look at a new collage of light from NASA might help answer at least one pesky question about our local star.

In a new colored image of the Sun, which NASA released on Thursday, are three shades of colors. The two most obvious are green and red. They portray wavelengths of light the Sun emits across its entire face. But in a few corners are splotches of blue. These represent small events that could be elevating the temperature of the Sun’s outer atmosphere to more than a million degrees.

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