
Smithsonian - 1 day 21 hours ago
The snowdrop, or Galanthus, blooms when the world is still frozen. Gardeners enamored with the plant gather each year in Pennsylvania to celebrate its subtleties and endurance...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 hours ago
Kentucky's bourbon industry produces vast quantities of waste grain that is costly to transport and process. Researchers have now found a way to turn that byproduct into high-performance energy storage materials with potential applications in electric vehicles and large-scale grid storage. More than 95 percent of all bourbon whiskey is made in Kentucky. For each barrel of bourbon, the industry also produces between six and ten times as much "stillage" a slurry of spent grain and water...

GeekSpin - 1 day 23 hours ago
The race back to the Moon just took a dramatic and costly turn. In a bold shake-up of its Artemis program, NASA is scrapping its long-planned lunar orbiting station to pursue something far more ambitious: a $20 billion permanent base on the Moon's surface. But why abandon years of work on a space station in orbit for […] Read the original article here: NASA scraps orbiting station for $20 billion moon base...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 3 hours ago
It’s spring, I think it’s spring, yes really, it’s spring, and I have to stop myself from writing about juiced-up kids and hormonal robins and the flourishing minor bulbs, all sproinging all over the place like little fireworks. It’s true that they’re the incarnation of spring but I’ve written and written about them and you […] The post I Don’t Know What the Crows Are Saying appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .