Some real science:   August was   earth’s hottest on record . June and July also broke records.  More so,  summer of 2023 was Planet Earth's hottest by a large amount . This is science Wednesday, and flying saucers are considered to be so far from reality to NASA SETI researchers, that this posting today might reduce my credibility with them.  But, after all,  NASA did finally create a position for UFO Czar , so maybe this would be a good time to assess where we are with unidentified flying objects ( UFOs ), now re-termed UAP for unidentified anomalous ( or aerial ) phenomenon. Some history about  czars : Czar Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 and that was the final one, although they later had Stalin, and now Putin, so the authoritarian nature of their leadership has not changed at all. President Woodrow Wilson selected Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board during World War I, only a year after Nicholas went.  Thus, Baruch was the War Czar. Wikipedia  actually has a list of

Yesterday I announced my intent to spend future Tuesdays featuring the best of my 14 years of posting this blog.  As Wednesday is my sci-tech day, I will provide a similar alert indicating what science topics I will focus on over next few days and weeks: What is a star?  Part 2 will feature dwarf stars, which are relatively small, and rest somewhere between stars and large planets, from a fascinating  Scientific American  article. Chemistry's quantum future.  Many products developed by industry were pure accidents, like teflon.  Chemistry is nearing a phase of being able to bypass this thing called serendipity. A possible solution to global warming:  the answer might be within our mantle, as seen in a remote desert of Oman. Virus scoreboard:  what can we expect in the future. A new understanding of Alzheimer's:  is microglia the real target? While only 1% of us stutter, as I once did, we getting closer to better understanding and curing this problem. Are hypersonic weapons over

  If you are among those intrigued with outer space, you might want to skip NCAA football for a couple of hours and tune in to CNN tonight at 9PM ( EST ) or 4PM in Hawaii.    The Hunt for Planet B   will be setting the stage for, finally, and hopefully, the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on December 18 at 7:20 ( EST ) on an Ariane 5 rocket at the European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana.  This is Europe's contribution to the project.  Why here is that the location is at the equator. The staff of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) and NASA, plus much of the world, will be holding their collective breaths until the first sign of success occurs in about  six months  after launch.  Why?  Just  read these details  to appreciate the complexity of the operation to take the telescope a million miles away to the second Lagrange ( L2 ) at the Earth-Sun balance point. A first comparison can be made with the infra red  Herschel Space Observatory , which in 2009 was