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May 25, 2022
It’s Official: Astronomers Have Discovered Another Earth
Posted by Eamon Everall in category: space
Is this true?
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth.
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May 25, 2022
NASA plans to launch an unexpected organism to space to study cosmic radiation
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: space
Cosmic radiation remains a significant danger to spacefarers.
A new experiment that is set to accompany the Artemis 1 mission will analyze how brewer’s yeast fares against cosmic radiation.
May 25, 2022
Australian startup develops mine shaft gravity storage
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: energy, sustainability
Green Gravity, a startup proposing to use old mine shafts for gravitational energy storage, has secured AUD 1.4 million ($990,000) in its first formal capital raise.
Green Gravity is turning to the former cornerstone of Australia’s wealth, coal mining, to remove the final hurdle for a fully renewable electricity system. It is proposing to lift and release ultra-heavy weights in legacy mine shafts, in a reimagining of how the universal force of attraction, gravity, can be used to store renewable energy.
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May 25, 2022
25% of New York’s streets could be converted as squares and cycle paths
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: space travel
NYC 25×25 is a plan proposed by Transportation Alternatives, which acts to transform a quarter of the current urban space available to cars: an area equivalent to thirteen Central Parks to be taken away from traffic.
May 25, 2022
Your Martian Dream Home, Made By Fungi
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: materials, space
Your Martian Dream Home, Made By Fungi ‘… it was the cheapest building material known.’ — Larry Niven, 1968.
3D Printed Glass Uses Stereolithography Techniques ‘All that with glass…’ — Frank Herbert, 1972.
May 25, 2022
Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: bioengineering
May 25, 2022
Earth picked up an alien ‘wow’ signal 45 years ago. Source? Read here to know
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: futurism
Did humanity’s first contact with aliens already happen back in 1977? What was the source of the signal? Read below.
May 25, 2022
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries Lasting 1,000’s of Years
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: nuclear energy
Nuclear power is considered a clean energy source because it has zero carbon dioxide emissions; yet, it produces massive amount of waste.
May 25, 2022
Lasers reveal ‘lost’ pre-Hispanic civilization deep in the Amazon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Millions of lasers shot from a helicopter flying over the Amazon basin have revealed evidence of unknown settlements built by a “lost” pre-Hispanic civilization, resolving a long-standing scientific debate about whether the region could sustain a large population, a new study finds.
The findings indicate the mysterious Casarabe people — who lived in the Llanos de Mojos region of the Amazon basin between A.D. 500 and 1,400 — were much more numerous than previously thought, and that they had developed an extensive civilization that was finely adapted to the unique environment they lived in, according to the study, published online Wednesday (May 25) in the journal Nature (opens in new tab).
