Are we having fun yet #stem #weather #news Sign up for my monthly STEM newsletter! Link in the bio Sources: 1. “How strong can hurricanes get?” – Live Science 2. “Category 6 Hurricanes: Is There Such a Thing?” – Newsweek 3. “A Simple Model for Predicting the Tropical Cyclone Radius of Maximum Wind from Outer Size” – AMS

A new frontier to help me download my garbage #stem Sources: 1. “Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps” – Live Science 2. “Optical fiber cables, how do they work?” – Lesics (YouTube) 3. “Aston University researchers send data 4.5 million times faster than average broadband” – Aston University

Bridges aren’t designed for impact #stem Sources: 1. “Everything We Know About the Shocking Collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge” – Popular Mechanics 2. “A Structural Engineer Explains Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed” – Scientific American 3. “Cargo vessel crashes into Baltimore bridge” – Interesting Engineering

Replying to @user8083441165747 Habitable doesn’t mean inhabited, just that the right conditions existed for life as we know it to exist #stem Sources: 1. “Venus May Have Supported Life Billions of Years Ago” – Space 2. “NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable” – NASA 3. “Venus could have had oceans long after life started on Earth” – Phys (dot org)

It would take us 7 years to reach Titan, but that’s the next generation’s problem #stem Sources: 1. “Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth” – The European Space Agency 2. “Fossil fuels” – Geological Survey Ireland 3. “Importance of Methane” – US Environmental Protection Agency