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Do you know what your nation's Ecological Footprint is? According to the following link, Canada is an ecological creditor nation because it has an ecological rating of 7.01 and its capacity is...
26 July 2023 9,347 2 View
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Mercury_s_black_disc_helps_sharpen_Solar_Orbiter_s_view
22 February 2023 3,372 1 View
During April, 2021, the long overdue movement of Alaska's largest glacier began.
26 April 2021 2,468 5 View
Aside from the factors of the amount of time and space, since a book takes longer than an article, are there other differences which you have either observed or experienced?
24 April 2021 1,154 11 View
New variants of the novel COVID-19 are springing up everywhere, but it is not clear if the viral variants are springing up spontaneously in different parts of the globe according to genetic...
07 April 2021 1,544 39 View
The Southeastern region of the United States of America, including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and the Caribbean archipelagos are being devastated by a higher number of...
17 November 2020 9,630 20 View
If gravity is holding the stars and galaxies in space, while fusion is preventing them from colliding into one another, then is nuclear fusion causing the red shift?
27 June 2020 7,342 0 View
As of June 1, 2020, the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities are in America 112,000, Brazil 36,500, United Kingdom 40,550, Spain 27,000, Italy 34,000, France 29,155, and Mexico 13,000. India has...
08 June 2020 4,415 38 View
Why do Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune spin counterclockwise?
08 June 2020 5,122 4 View
Does the Solar System move in a meaningful pattern?
08 June 2020 4,588 28 View
It seems that the moon is getting farther away from Earth. Yet, storms are getting more violent. Why? Do these ferocious storms (tornadoes, hurricanes, rain-wind-thunder-lightning storms) occur...
26 December 2019 2,879 13 View
Should people who do not wear protective face masks be allowed to shop in grocery stores? Should they be allowed to use public forms of transportation, including bus, train, commercial airliner?
01 January 1970 8,488 10 View
While scientific research is improving its ability to provide scientists with increasingly more qualitative and quantitative detailed information, technology is providing the public with tools...
01 January 1970 10,080 9 View
In a formal classroom teaching and learning situation, did you ever find it necessary to lower the grade on a student's paper because of some deficiency, such as a paragraph copied verbatim from a...
01 January 1970 6,281 16 View
Aristotle was perhaps the first scientist, yet his writings traverse a gamut ranging from literature (literary theory and criticism) to politics and physics. What we now know as "science" was...
01 January 1970 9,900 15 View
Earth has a North Pole and a South Pole. Is this a paradigm or a model that we need to understand before we can begin to understand the structural (or some other) design of the universe? If so,...
01 January 1970 3,725 9 View
There are different sorts of radiation, e.g., electromagnetic radiation, microwave radiation, and so on. "Radiation" is a vast domain. This discussion thread invites focused and concise replies,...
01 January 1970 8,180 22 View
This discussion topic is inspired by my seeing the title of an article written in German published in February 2012 by a Research Gate member which contains the words "Konnen Tiere denken?" One...
01 January 1970 3,732 2 View
This discussion aims to generate a list of differences between patriotism and nationalism as viewed on an individual basis and possibly on a local or a national scale. The main emphasis is on...
01 January 1970 10,112 53 View
"Science fiction" is often categorized along with "fantasy." I have never met a scientist who is also a science fiction buff. What is so "scientific" about "science fiction"? Isn't it too...
01 January 1970 5,263 90 View
Many high school teachers and college foreign language instructors have been replaced by computerized language learning laboratories. Although computerized laboratories require an initial...
01 January 1970 6,731 6 View
A business background prepares one to deal efficiently and effectively with everyday problems.
01 January 1970 4,594 10 View
What are some similarities and differences between teaching, instructing, and professing?
01 January 1970 5,454 34 View
As of June 22, 2020, which is the second day of summer, COVID-19 cases are rising precipitously in America, in particular in "sun belt" states, including California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and...
01 January 1970 157 16 View
Currently, as of March 24, 2020, social distancing is the only defense against the local and the global spread of the COVID-19 virus. The virus is spreading like a wildfire, because social...
01 January 1970 9,575 26 View
Many students prefer to have their written work graded without comments and corrections. Other students want to receive a grade and also comments and corrections. What is, in your opinion, the...
01 January 1970 8,245 4 View
Is Hi-Tech just another "Machine in the Garden" that is resulting in dehumanization? Or will Hi-Tech prove to redeem humanity from the deleterious effects of the Industrial Age?
01 January 1970 1,789 4 View
What percentage of earthquakes result from human activities, e.g., drilling for oil, natural gas, etc.? Most people know that fossil fuel consumption impacts air quality locally and globally and...
01 January 1970 1,190 2 View
Some Pacific Islands are "sinking" because of global warming on the order of 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which is being attributed to polar ice caps melting due to carbon emissions. Can this...
01 January 1970 799 3 View
In view of "debris" from projects funded in the past and material objects in present and future actively funded projects, will this growing accumulation of technologically generated objects that...
01 January 1970 8,750 4 View
Most people know that fossil fuel consumption impacts air quality locally and globally and that aerosol use affects the ozone layer. Now that oil well drilling, coal mining, and natural gas...
01 January 1970 9,371 5 View
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their plans to keep their castle in England, and, in addition, to live in Canada and also to stay for part of the year in California. Further, they love...
01 January 1970 8,467 22 View
What sorts of things does imaginative literature teach us? Is imaginative literature a luxury or an essential aspect of the human experience? Should the teaching of imaginative literature be...
01 January 1970 3,802 92 View
Does the scientific community, including, of course, Research Gate, place greater value on scientific research published with multiple authors? Did great achievers, such as Leonardo da Vinci,...
01 January 1970 5,464 26 View
In July 2020, a government sponsored mission to Mars was launched, which will land on Mars on February 18, 2021. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ Several days later, SpaceX, a privately owned and...
01 January 1970 697 21 View
Sir Isaac Newton's gravitational theory is often viewed as belonging to the philosophical view of the cosmos of the solar system as being mechanical and mechanistic. Newton discovered that the...
01 January 1970 8,919 64 View
While scientists correctly predicted solar flare activity in the past, current findings indicate that solar flares are rising significantly higher in number and/or intensity and not following the...
01 January 1970 4,492 12 View
This link to a speculative scientific article published in 2021 led to this RG question. Black Holes in Role, Essence, and Function
01 January 1970 3,533 5 View
What does a density ratio of 5 to 1 mean to you, as a scientist, mathematician, engineer, technologist, sociologist, planetologist, or other?
01 January 1970 1,053 4 View
Solar geoengineering is making good progress and demonstrates that the scientific and technology community is responding in spades to the ongoing crisis impacting human and nonhuman flora and...
01 January 1970 185 1 View
This is a theoretical question that endeavors to address contemporary issues. My frame of reference is that world peace is the ideal. In conflict situations, what form of geopolitical combat might...
01 January 1970 1,084 13 View
Many organizations are soliciting contributions to enable them to feed children who are starving around the world. What are some other ways scientists can help to alleviate the suffering of people...
01 January 1970 4,292 10 View
Today, 1 July 2023, the European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the European Space Agency (ESA) space telescope EUCLID to explore "dark matter" and "dark energy" and similar hitherto unanswered...
01 January 1970 5,611 8 View
In a speech today, Queen of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, Elizabeth II announced that the United Kingdom plans to withdraw formally from the European Union as of January 31, 2020. Why was...
01 January 1970 2,739 17 View
This LINK shows photographs of a total solar eclipse viewed from Earth and a similar, but very different solar eclipse viewed from Mars! What is your perspective on these two...
01 January 1970 6,141 3 View
What is your experience as the author of a research monograph or scholarly book published in the United Kingdom and of a similar publication in the United States? If you had to choose between...
01 January 1970 9,495 2 View
LINK: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-spots-swirling-gritty-clouds-on-remote-planet The Webb telescope is gathering data, including presence of water, methane, carbon...
01 January 1970 127 6 View
This RG question is prompted by an article I read at the following LINK: https://sponsored.chronicle.com/space-plants-for-earths-future/
01 January 1970 8,351 5 View
In long-term projects, often a division of labor is necessitated. Some tasks may be delegated to helpers who perform relatively simple tasks, such as a student who goes to the laboratory and sits...
01 January 1970 1,336 10 View
In the middle of World War II, the United States was forced to defend Hawaii, a U.S. territory, against the preemptive strike of the Imperial Navy of Japan. Nobody could criticize the U.S.A....
01 January 1970 7,658 18 View
Until this morning, when I viewed a 5-second film clip of a coral growing as tall as the Empire State Building on a national network television "Today" news broadcast, I thought that Global...
01 January 1970 2,839 3 View
Several different time tables try to point to exactly how many billions of years will pass before the Sun reaches status as a RG (Red Giant). Most scientists who have done extensive research...
01 January 1970 4,908 6 View
2023 saw an unprecedented number of...
01 January 1970 2,257 6 View
Is it possible, or plausible, that the discrepancy between the mathematical equations Newton used to support his statements about gravitational pull and the mathematical equations Einstein used to...
01 January 1970 9,304 3 View
Greek mythology depicts the sun god Apollo as a patron of the arts of music, medicine, and a host of other healing arts. In what ways does this lens appropriately portray the sun from a scientific...
01 January 1970 9,836 7 View
The ancient Greek notion of "golden mean" may be contrasted to the word "arete," which denotes excellence demonstrated in completing any endeavor. In ancient Greece, the Olympians who won first...
01 January 1970 6,322 0 View
If the red shift did not exist, how would life on Earth be affected?
01 January 1970 7,142 2 View
Isaac Newton's name is irrevocably linked to the Laws of Motion. Albert Einstein's name is irrevocably linked to the photoelectric effect. As a result of the work of Newton and Einstein who are...
01 January 1970 2,287 4 View
Can we corroboratively compare facts about (1) our solar system; (2) gaseous outer planets and their moons; and (3) earth-like bodies in exospace? The history of science records research of...
01 January 1970 8,202 3 View
As Voyager headed into interstellar space in August 2012, having been launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, to explore and photograph Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, discovering volcanic...
01 January 1970 8,978 2 View
Please note: Social distancing is the best defense in this global COVID-19 war where each of us is a soldier. For example, during the current COVID-19 pandemic, do you observe situations in which...
01 January 1970 6,784 29 View
Our solar system is very special. Our sun is different from all of the other stars in the universe.
01 January 1970 6,523 25 View
What is the time table for the Sun's expansion and contraction? New discussion It is my understanding that Earth's Sun is a middle-age star moving into old age. Currently, Earth's Sun appears to...
01 January 1970 1,132 3 View
It is my understanding that Earth's Sun is a middle-age star moving into old age. Currently, Earth's Sun appears to be growing hotter, and consequently, its gravitational pull is getting stronger....
01 January 1970 9,352 2 View
Newton's gravitational laws of inertial motion in the cosmos of the solar system lead inevitably to the sun growing into a red giant and then collapsing into a white dwarf, while Einstein's...
01 January 1970 2,048 4 View
The number of lives lost on a battlefield is significantly lower now, but is terrorism really any sort of an "improvement"? Is conventional warfare a fairer form of political action? And, finally,...
01 January 1970 1,857 56 View
In the United States, California and Utah are developing geothermal energy for the long term. Will this drilling deep into planet Earth destabilize it geologically and greatly increase seismic...
01 January 1970 1,704 6 View
Globally, hundreds of thousands of children are afflicted by diseases caused by consanguineous unions, for example cleft palate, hemophilia, clubfoot, neurological disorders, and other...
01 January 1970 791 7 View
