AvatarRenee Foster3 days agoNASA’s Laser Communications System Just Received a Message From 10 Million Miles Awaytheamazelab - Amaze LabConventionally, sending messages across great distances in space has been unsophisticated at best, using traditional radio signals. These signals are slow and broad, meaning it takes a long time to receive the messages and pretty much anyone can pick them up and listen in, but that’s all about to change.
AvatarRenee FosterAvatarAvatar2 days agoNASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills.verified_publisherMashable - Mark KaufmanThe deep space mission that changed everything. In 1979, Alan Cummings, a scientist working on NASA's unprecedented Voyager mission, entered a Caltech room in Pasadena, California, and saw an unusual, alien world projected on a screen. The brand-new image, just beamed back from space, revealed a …
AvatarRenee FosterAvatarAvatar2 days agoWebb telescope makes curious find in deep space: alcoholverified_publisherMashable - Mark KaufmanThis ingredient might make its way to a planet, someday. The powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted vital chemicals around two youthful stars. Astronomers focused the space observatory, which orbits 1 million miles from Earth, on cosmic regions around these protostars, which are …
AvatarRenee FosterAvatarAvatar4 days agoA cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per dayverified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulAfter six months sailing around the world, the numbers are in for the retrofitted ‘Pyxis Ocean.’ A shipping vessel left China for Brazil while sporting some new improvements last August—a pair of 123-feet-tall, solid “wings” retrofitted atop its deck to harness wind power for propulsion assistance. …
AvatarRenee FosterAvatarAvatar4 days agoJames Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universeLive Science - By Ben TurnerDepending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo6 days agoGroundbreaking discovery might make existing computers twice as fast with no hardware upgradesbgr.com - Joshua HawkinsIf you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. What if you could make your old PC twice …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 days agoHow Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconvertednewrepublic.com - Elle HardyThe hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts. The …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoScientists launch wood-based satellite unlike any other into space: '[Its] ability to withstand these conditions astounded us'thecooldown.com - Laurelle StelleHere's a headline you never thought you'd read: Japan is about to team up with the U.S. to launch a satellite made of wood, the Guardian reports.No, …
AvatarRenee FosterAvatarAvatarAI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'verified_publisherEuronews Next - By Anna DesmaraisLarge language models (LLMs) are more likely to criminalise users that use African American English, the results of a new Cornell University study …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPulling gold out of e-waste suddenly becomes super-profitableverified_publishernewatlas.com - By Paul McClureA new method for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying back US$50 for every dollar spent, according to researchers – who …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWorld's Largest Deposit Of Natural Hydrogen Gas Discovered In Albanian Mineiflscience.comThe largest natural flow of hydrogen gas ever discovered has been detected seeping through a pool of water deep within a chromium mine in Albania. …
AvatarRenee FosterFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe end of sex? How human reproduction could soon change foreversciencefocus.com - Prof Henry GreelyNew technologies could reimagine baby-making as we know it. But will they actually replace tried-and-tested (and enjoyable) methods? Over the past …