SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”
SONG: “Heaven is Our Home”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Tiangong-1: Chinese space station will crash to Earth within months,” The Guardian, 13 Oct 2017, as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: “Heaven is Our Home””
Articles by grant
A spacecraft thinner than a human hair can clean up space junk
Popular Science gets the skinny on a super-thin satellite that cleans up the metal messes we leave in orbit:
… Read the rest “A spacecraft thinner than a human hair can clean up space junk”This past spring, the NIAC awarded researchers at The Aerospace Corporation
An AI has learned to play go… without being taught by humans.
Nature explains an artificial-intelligence breakthrough, with a computer that’s learned how to win at the complicated Asian game of go without studying the strategies and past… Read the rest “An AI has learned to play go… without being taught by humans.”
Tiangong-1 is falling to Earth.
But, The Guardian says, we don’t have to worry about death by 8.5 tons of space junk – probably:
… Read the rest “Tiangong-1 is falling to Earth.”China’s space agency has since notified the UN that it expects Tiangong-1 to come
Stop your smartphone from hijacking your brain.
Popular Science wants to help you break the smartphone habit:
… Read the rest “Stop your smartphone from hijacking your brain.”“When we let ourselves space out and let our minds wander,” [Manoush] Zomordoi writes, “we do our most original thinking and
The birth of city-states (and government itself) didn’t happen like we thought.
New Scientist reviews research that shows the first governments weren’t born as a consequence of agriculture. Instead, they might have had more to do with hunger, fear, and the threat… Read the rest “The birth of city-states (and government itself) didn’t happen like we thought.”
Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889
Click to embiggenTeeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were wheels, spinning.
A glimpse of the microscopic… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889”
Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.
Science News reports on studies that find the parts of your brain in charge of navigation never rests, even when you’re asleep:
… Read the rest “Your brain’s mapmaker never, ever sleeps.”Nestled in a part of the brain called the medial entorhinal
Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.
Nature has more on Navajo leaders – in charge of the second-largest Native American group in the U.S. – possibly ending 15 years of forbidding genetic studies on their people… Read the rest “Navajo nation might just let geneticists study them after all.”
Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8
Click to embiggen vastlyThe USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 satellite… Read the rest “Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8”
Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.
NextBigFuture bigs up the Rice University researchers who added a pinch of asphalt and graphene to their batteries to create a high-capacity power source that that charges up 20 times faster… Read the rest “Battery charging got 20 times faster – by adding asphalt.”
Human-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?
Nature is following the geologists who are tracking, for the first time, the impressive number of – and factors involved in –earthquakes believed to be caused by human activity… Read the rest “Human-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?”
Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.
Nature, reporting on the effects of droughts and logging, reveals that the world’s jungles are now producing more CO2 than they’re socking away out of the atmosphere:
… Read the rest “Tropical rainforests have become carbon *producers*, not carbon sinks.”Whereas
Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.
I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share.
It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy (Puer Capite Elephantino) and the Horned Infant (Infans… Read the rest “Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.”