Planet Under Seige

Tue, 10 August 2021

Vera rubin

Listen up for this very pertinent episode of readings from New Scientist as Diana Gershwin presents the key take-away of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report - the Earth will hit 1.5°C climate limit within 20 years. Read the whole  IPCC Report here
Also in this episode, States of Matter: the unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas; how astronomer Vera Rubin (pictured above) shone light on dark matter and fought sexism; Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras; what is an Ele-photo lens?

New Scientist is read by Diana Gershwin and John Small on alternate weeks. In Sydney New Scientist goes to air on Wednesdays at 8.30 p.m. and is repeated on Sundays at 6.30 p.m. Keep your ears peeled. This episode will go to air on Wed. 18 and Sun 22 of August, 2021.