Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Space Plans For The World’s First Space Hotel thefuturist.co - Unipro2013main Hotel in SpaceThe idea of a hotel in space if not a new one: humanity, collectively and individually, has long dreamed of leaving our atmosphere, and …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Supernovae Dying white dwarf stars may explode like a nuclear bomb Live Science - Charles Q. Choi Who knew star deaths and nuclear weapons had something in common? When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may detonate like a nuclear …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Microplastics Microplastics Are Now Spiralling Around The Globe in The Air We Breathe verified_publisherScienceAlert - David Nield Our plastic pollution problem has become so bad that microplastics are now embedded in the regular cycles of the atmosphere, circulating around the …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Galaxies 5 twinkling galaxies help us uncover the mystery of the Milky Way's missing matter space.com - Yuanming Wang Tara Murphy, Professor, University of Sydney We've all looked up at night and admired the brightly shining stars. Beyond making a gorgeous spectacle, …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Biology A rich marine algal ecosystem existed 600 million years earlier than previously thought phys.org - Birgitte Svennevig The first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth were cyanobacteria. Their evolution dramatically changed the Earth allowing oxygen to …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Quantum Computing Researchers establish the first entanglement-based quantum network phys.org - Delft University of Technology A team of researchers from QuTech in the Netherlands reports realization of the first multi-node quantum network, connecting three quantum …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Nature Island gigantism and dwarfism the result of evolutionary island rule phys.org - Radboud University Nijmegen It is an old-standing theory in evolutionary ecology: animal species on islands have the tendency to become either giants or dwarfs in comparison to …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Science Study warns of 'oxygen false positives' in search for signs of life on other planets phys.org - University of California - Santa Cruz In the search for life on other planets, the presence of oxygen in a planet's atmosphere is one potential sign of biological activity that might be …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...DocumentariesBuckminster Fuller, Isaac Asimov & Other Futurists Make Predictions About the 21st Century in 1967: What They Got Right Wrong... openculture.com - by Josh Jones Why bother with reason and evidence to make predictions when you can put your faith in a chance roll of the dice? These two methods could be said to …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Cascadia Why are there relatively few aftershocks for certain Cascadia earthquakes? phys.org - Seismological Society of America In the Cascadia subduction zone, medium and large-sized 'intraslab' earthquakes, which take place at greater than crustal depths within the …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Physics Search for sterile neutrinos: It's all about a bend in the curve phys.org - Max Planck Society There are many questions surrounding the elementary particle neutrino, in particular regarding its mass. Physicists are also interested in whether …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Dark Matter Jupiter could make an ideal dark matter detector phys.org - Scott Alan Johnston So you want to find dark matter, but you don't know where to look. A giant planet might be exactly the kind of particle detector you need! Luckily, …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Plastic Horrifying images of lake that’s more plastic than water yahoo.com - Michael Dahlstrom Filled with bottles, toys and containers, a once pristine lake is now more plastic than water. A one-time popular tourist attraction, Bolivia’s Uru …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Space Telescope NASA Reveals Spectacular New Hubble Telescope Image of the Veil Nebula smithsonianmag.com - Elizabeth Gamillo Located 2,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus lies a supernova remnant called the Veil Nebula. The nebula is a cloud of ionized …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Space These three planets spin so fast that they’re about to tear themselves apart verified_publisherDigital Trends - By Georgina Torbet A team of astronomers has identified three brown dwarfs which are spinning ten times as fast as a typical planet, making them the fastest ever …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Space There Might Be Remnants of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth? Yup discovermagazine.com - Anna Funk An ancient impactor called Theia hit the Earth to create the moon. New research suggests the rest of that planet may still be inside the …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Australia Startup Says Its Super Powerful Laser Can Blast Space Junk From the Earth’s Surface verified_publisherfuturism.com It's like playing a high-stakes game of Missile Command. Top Sniper The Australian startup EOS Space Systems says it has finally finished building a …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Physics A tiny, wobbling muon just shook particle physics to its core Live Science - Ben Turner But this may not be the end of the story. The results from one of the most hotly-anticipated experiments in particle physics are in, and they could be …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Quasars Hubble spots double quasars in merging galaxies phys.org - Lynn Jenner NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Water This low-cost water filter runs on just sunlight verified_publisherFast Company - By Adele PetersThe sponge-like membrane removes more toxins than a typical water filter, and then releases clean water when heated by the sun. In the future, the solar panels on your roof might sit next to rain-collecting...
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Aliens Futurist Michio Kaku calls contacting aliens 'a terrible idea' dailymail.co.uk - Dan Avery Contact with alien life is just around the corner, according to leading physicist, but we shouldn't expect it to be friendly. String theory expert and …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Black Holes A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes space.com - David Blair In 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. Gravitational wave detectors picked up the ripples in spacetime caused …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Asteroids Fiery 'airburst' of superheated gas slammed into Antarctica 430,000 years ago space.com - Nicoletta Lanese Roughly 430,000 years ago, an incandescent ball of hot gas came barreling out of the sky and slammed into Antarctica — and now, scientists have found …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...History WATCH: Haunting footage from the submersible that just visited the world's deepest known shipwreck Insider - Mia Jankowicz Two former US naval officers have filmed what they say the world's deepest known shipwreck from a submersible that traveled 21,180ft to get the …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Universe These weird lumps of 'inflatons' could be the very first structures in the universe Live Science - Mara Johnson-Groh An ultra-high-resolution simulation of a tiny slice of the universe — a million times smaller than a proton — has revealed the very first structures …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Latin America Dinosaur-killing asteroid strike gave rise to Amazon rainforest bbc.co.uk - BBC NewsThe asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs gave birth to our planet's tropical rainforests, a study suggests. Researchers used fossil pollen and leaves from Colombia to investigate how the impact...
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Neutron Stars Dark matter could be made of black holes from the beginning of time Live Science - Tom Metcalfe An analysis of ripples in space-time suggests the mysterious substance consists of primordial black holes. Dark matter, the mysterious substance that …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Physics Researchers achieve world's first manipulation of antimatter by laser phys.org - by TRIUMF Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world's first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Space Neutrino hunters go underwater in quest to trap ghost particles sciencemag.org - Daniel Clery Since 2010, IceCube, a detector frozen in the ice beneath the South Pole, has snared neutrinos from deep space. The universe is awash with these …
Gaye Barrflipped into Stuff to think about...Dementia Using holographic endoscopes to observe distant objects phys.org - American Institute of Physics Scientists are developing tools to observe the biological machinery in in vivo animal models to be able to understand and better treat severe brain …
