Sarah Zhang
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A Plane Took A Wrong Turn And Ended Up In A Cloud Of Antimatter
Where the hell did the antimatter come from? That’s what atmospheric scientist Joseph Dwyer has been trying to figure out for the past six years, after his research plane accidentally flew through a thunderstorm into a cloud of antimatter in 2009.
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Trying To Buy Water Rights Shows How Backwards US Water Policy Is
Amidst all the dire drought news, you’ve probably been hearing about “water rights”, which are as weirdly abstract as they sound. So what’s the deal with water rights? Can you buy some yourself? When reporter Ryan Bradley sets out to get $US500 of water rights in The Adaptors podcast, it gets pretty hairy.
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NASA’s Radar Found 4 Men Trapped In Rubble In Nepal By Their Heartbeats
A couple years ago, NASA and DHS unveiled a portable radar unit based on technology used to detect alien life on distant exoplanets. This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home — to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped save four men trapped…
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A Soviet Doctor Stranded In Antarctica Had To Cut Out His Own Appendix
In February 1961, Leonid Rogozov was one of 12 men wintering at a new Soviet base in Antarctica. He was also their only doctor. So when he came down with a bad case of appendicitis, well, there was only thing to do really: He had to remove the appendix himself.