261016 – Colored White Dwarfs

by | Oct 16, 2026 | Physics

The First Green Star: Why Some White Dwarfs Are Not White Oct 16, 2026 · @Thomas Lee Abshier, ND Astronomers at the University of Warwick, led by Mark Hollands, have calculated the true colors of 151 nearby white dwarfs and several unusual ones farther out. Most look...

261013 – The Peaceful Indigenous Native Myth

by | Oct 13, 2026 | Politics

Beyond the Myth of the Peaceful Native: A Fact-Check Oct 13, 2026 · @Thomas Abshier Introduction The claim holds: the picture of pre-contact America as a universally peaceful, ecologically untouched Eden is a myth, and the archaeological and documentary record refutes...

261013 – Bethe Strings in Ultracold Gas

by | Oct 13, 2026 | Physics

Bethe Strings: A 1931 Prediction Captured in an Ultracold Gas Thomas Lee Abshier, ND · October 13, 2026 A Bound State Without a Bond Ordinary matter is held together by attraction that pulls particles into a low-energy arrangement and keeps them there. A molecule is...

261012 – Second Generation Planet

by | Oct 13, 2026 | Physics

The Second-Generation Planet: A World Built From a Dying Star A Cold Case in the Hubble Archive In January 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took an ultraviolet spectrum of a faint white dwarf cataloged as HS 0209+0832. Astronomers who analyzed it found carbon,...

261012 – Second Generation Planet

by | Oct 13, 2026 | Physics

The Second-Generation Planet: A World Built From a Dying Star A Cold Case in the Hubble Archive In January 1999 the Hubble Space Telescope took an ultraviolet spectrum of a faint white dwarf catalogued as HS 0209+0832. The astronomers who analyzed it found carbon,...

261010 – Earth Crust to Core

by | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics

Earth’s Interior: From Crust to a Wandering Core Oct 10, 2026 · @Thomas Abshier A Planet We Have Never Seen Inside Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 No one has ever seen beyond Earth’s outer skin. The deepest hole ever drilled reaches about 12...

261010 – Nitrogen Buckyballs

by | Oct 10, 2026 | Physics

The Nitrogen Buckyball: The “Most Expensive Substance on Earth” and the Atomic Clock It Was Meant to Shrink Thomas Lee Abshier, ND | 10 October 2026 A Headline That Keeps Coming Back Every year or two, a story circulates under some version of the title...