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Author: Robert Marx

Round “anderound anderound”

While understanding Jupiter may not affect the price of eggs, it is significant for our  understanding of how our own Solar System formed.

Robert Marx April 1, 2025

Meteors: Harbingers of Life

The abundance of scientific research, so far, favors the notion that meteors carry amino acids, biologically necessary or not, from interstellar space. This provides our planet with the seeds of life.

Robert Marx March 1, 2025

The Sky, In Fact, Is Falling

“The sky is falling” is a familiar childhood refrain that conjures the image of an over-anxious hen’s doomsday fears. While we typically dismiss thoughts of

Robert Marx February 1, 2025

Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!

The reviews are in: Beetlejuice, the movie and sequel – meh.  Betelgeuse the star – spectacular!  With the coming of the winter months, we will

Robert Marx December 1, 2024

The Strike Zone

Last month’s column discussed the properties of neutrinos. Despite their tiny mass and elusive nature (they pass through everything), detecting them is important; that is the

Robert Marx November 1, 2024

Trillions and Trillions

At the instant that you read this, billions of neutrinos are passing through your body. They are not electromagnetic waves. They are real particles: just

Robert Marx October 1, 2024

I Must Go Down to the Seas Again…

When the poet, John Masefield, wrote this in 1902, the world had no idea that the seas in question might not be on earth. We

Robert Marx September 3, 2024

Actio Nova – August 2024

Cosmic Optometry In 1917 Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity I states that a mass, the size of our sun, measurably warps space and

Robert Marx August 1, 2024

StarNews — June 2024

Avoidance Behavior On any clear summer night, we can look up and see a beautiful array of stars scattered across the sky. The heavens seem dense

Robert Marx June 1, 2024

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