Viewing the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse in the Adirondacks

The Adirondack Explorer newspaper up in the Adirondacks assigned me to research and write this story on the upcoming April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. One of the best places in the northeast to view it will be in the Adirondack Mountains. When the sun, Earth and moon align What to know about this rare celestial event By Mark Marchand Residents and visitors will get a chance this spring to witness a stunning cosmic phenomenon that hasn’t occurred in the Adirondack region for nearly seven centuries. On April 8, a complex orbital…

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Detail of the surface of Pluto, from NASA' New Horizons space probe. 2016

Scientists gather in Boston to discuss research and battle anti-science political agenda

In the city that helped launched the great democracy experiment known as America, scientists from around the world gathered last month to discuss and share their latest research — and to draw battle lines against the ideological, anti-science platform of the new administration in Washington.

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