Category: Earth
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Fossilized worm brains, cranberry packaging, the wet history of Mars and more inspiration from nature World’s Oldest Fossilized Brain Discovered A 525-million-year-old fossil of an extinct worm-like animal known as the Cardiodictyon catenulum was first discovered in China in 1984, but only recently have scientists found that the barely half-an-inch animal has a brain. […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more Climate-Resistant Breadfruit Could Help Fight Food Insecurity Many of our most consumed crops (like corn and wheat) will continue to be negatively effected by the climate crisis, leading to food insecurity for many, but scientists believe […]
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Rare Diamond Suggests Earth has Oceans’ Worth of Interior Water – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Below the Earth’s surface there is a layer known as the mantle, a mostly solid zone of the planet’s interior that is notoriously difficult to understand because humans have only been able to dig around seven miles deep. This is what makes a newly discovered diamond mined from 410 miles below the surface in […]
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First-Ever Photo of a Solar System Like Ours – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Images of exoplanets are extremely uncommon, but even more rare is an image of such a planet as part of a greater solar system like ours. Astronomers, however, have just shared one such photo captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. The picture of TYC 8998-760-1, located approximately 300 light years from […]
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NASA’s Public Design Challenge For Venus Exploration – COOL HUNTING
[ad_1] Supported by an internal grant, a new creative challenge posed by NASA asks the general public to submit ideas for an “innovative obstacle avoidance sensor” that will be featured on a future Venus Rover Concept. The planet’s notoriously rough surface will prove quite difficult to maneuver around and weather and pressure conditions are extreme. […]
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2019 Plant Discoveries Include a Cancer-Fighting Fungus and More
[ad_1] 102 plants and eight fungi were officially named by the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2019 (roughly 2,000 new species are named worldwide every year). Among the roster of the recently identified are a few additions with remarkable attributes, including a bamboo fungus from Yunnan that can fight cancer; a “miracle” […]
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Pursuing Life on a Planet That’s 1,000 Years Away
[ad_1] Earth may not be hospitable to humans forever. If we wish to prolong our existence, we need entertain the idea of relocating. Mars, while conveniently close, likely cannot host life without extensive adaptation. Another planet, Proxima b (which orbits the star Proxima Centauri) proves more possible, as its surface temperatures could accommodate water, and […]