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Finding alien life won’t be as dramatic as a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn – it’ll be NASA scientists holding a press conference to excitedly show off a chart that’s incomprehensible to most people. Now, we’re a step closer to that boring but groundbreaking day.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Astronomy, Life, Extraterrestrial, UC Riverside, University of California R
the athletics forest transforms movement into an art form with a field of bouncing, rotating balls, a suspended climbing apparatus, and more. The post teamLab expands planets tokyo with interactive forests of animals & athletics apparatus  appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
China, the undisputed global leader in wind energy, has just set another world record for the world's tallest and highest-capacity offshore wind turbine, taller than the Eiffel Tower, The Chrysler Building, and longer than the longest US aircraft carrier.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, TechnologyTags: Offshore Wind, Wind turbine, World Records
If aliens are watching Earth, they might be able to detect us from the radio signals we beam to Mars to control our rovers there. Astronomers have now listened in on the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system to check whether aliens are chattering between their own neighboring planets.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Extraterrestrial, Life, TRAPPIST-1, Astronomy, Radio, Pennsylvania State Universi
French smart telescope maker Unistellar has been on a mission to make stargazing easier for amateurs for years, and has now launched its cheapest models to date. The Odyssey range packs in Nikon optics, brings autofocus, and allows for observation of nearby and distant objects.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Telescope, Amateur astronomy, CES 2024, Astrophotography, Astronomy
The intensely hot interior of planets isn’t somewhere you’d expect to find snow, but scientists do suspect that “iron snow” falls on the Earth’s core. Now, a new study has modeled the dynamics in the lab and found that iron snow could make magnetic fields switch on and off in some planets.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Geology, Earth, Earth core, Metals, Planet, Magnetic field
designboom had the opportunity to physically explore the interactive exhibition Planets TOKYO and interview teamLab's communication director. The post designboom visits teamLab’s Planets TOKYO new additions to their body-immersive museum appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
When Meatloaf sang “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” in 1977, we’re all but certain he was not doing the math on the potential of planets in the galaxy having the right conditions to harbor life. Because new findings suggest that two out of three are actually bad, unless you’re in search of uninhabitable baked planets with boiling oceans.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Exoplanet, Univers
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water vapor near a planet in another system, which could mark the first direct detection of a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere. But there’s a big if hanging over the find.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Astronomy, James Webb Space Telescope, JWST, Exoplanet, Planet, Atmosphere, Water, NASA, Life
The mission may be defunct, but NASA’s InSight Mars lander is still uncovering new things about the Red Planet. Scientists poring over data have now made the first direct observations of another planet’s core, finding that it’s not quite what we thought.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Mars, InSight, NASA, Planet, Earth core, Seismic, Earthquake


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