Sep 25, 2014 Bees can sense the electric fields generated by flowers Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss aspects of biology that rely on electricity. Whether it is the transportation of nutrients and electrolytic compound in and out of cells, or the motive action of bacterial flagella, electric charge…
Sep 23, 2014 The Universe is said to have begun with a bang, which then became overblown. This article could almost be completed with one statement: a theory built on questionable assumptions should never be the basis for new theories. In a recent press release, astronomers declared that they found…
Sep 17, 2014 The Philae landing site is now confirmed. Look closely at the above image. It appears to be a rocky plain, with pits and ridges, covered in dust and scattered boulders. An ariel view of the American desert Southwest would closely match the terrain. However, this image…
Sep 16, 2014 Protoplanetary disks are said to be accreted around infant stars. A recent press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory reports the possibility that collisions between comets and a large planet might be occurring around the star, beta Pictoris. A cloud of carbon monoxide (CO) and dust…
Sep 15, 2014 Particle jets are not caused by black holes. How jets of ionized particles erupt from various objects in space is one of the most difficult problems facing modern astronomers. What force creates energetic particle emissions that can sometimes span distances measured in light-years, or even thousands…
Sep 13, 2014 Lakes are supposed to exist on Titan. Could that be a misinterpretation of electrical effects? The then named Cassini-Huygens mission was launched October 15, 1997 on a mission to explore Saturn and titan, its largest moon. With the Huygens lander included, Cassini was the largest interplanetary…
Sep 10, 2014 Electric Universe theory assumes Earth and the Sun are electrically connected. Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss the linkages between the flow of electric charge through the galaxy, solar electric currents, and terrestrial electric currents. Earth’s environment is also driven by those cosmic electrical circuits,…
Sep 8, 2014 Previously detected “plumes” on Europa are no longer visible. When Voyager 1 flew by Europa on March 1979, planetary scientists were surprised to see that the moon seemed to be completely encased in water ice. Another surprise was that Europa exhibited few craters. Instead, its surface…
Sep 5, 2014 So far, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s water ice remains hidden. According to a recent press release, one of Rosetta’s onboard instruments is detecting oxygen and hydrogen surrounding comet 67P/C-G. “ALICE” is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer built to examine the comet’s coma, as well as study the surface. There is,…
Sep 3, 2014 A recent coronal mass ejection could be headed toward Earth. “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin According to the Electric Sun hypothesis, the Sun is a positively charged electrode within a vast, galactic electric circuit. As previously written, the negative…
