Just Plain WEIRD #2
Shutterstock – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, Macquarie University And Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, IUPUI (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) – Published: 2022 Mar 15 – You …
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli – tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Published: 2022 Mar 18 – On …
This image, presumably from a training prep run, shows one of the skydiving pilots approaching a nose-diving plane. Red Bull – By Loz Blain 2022 Mar 17 – Back in 2017, Red Bull filmed a pair of BASE-jumping wingsuit pilots jumping off a mountain …
New mathematical formulation means huge paradigm shift in physics would not be necessary. An image captured by the Event Horizon telescope in 2019 of light around a black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. Photograph: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/EPA – By …
An autonomous underwater vehicle is recovered after completing a seafloor mapping mission in the Arctic Ocean. The remotely operated vehicle (foreground) is used to conduct visual surveys of the newly mapped seafloor. – By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 14 – Sign …
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia’s most respected architects. BIG – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar 15 – The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of …
The Pontos kayak is presently on Indiegogo. Pontos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 Mar 15 – Kayaks have many great qualities, but they’re typically not something you can store in a closet or carry in a backpack. That’s why we’ve been seeing an increasing …
It is hoped discovery of medieval trading town Ravenser Odd can teach people about perils of climate crisis. Ravenser Odd, thought to have been located near Spurn Point in the Humber estuary, was destroyed in 1362. Photograph: Mr. Nut/Alamy – By Mark Brown …
The male rose-veiled fairy wrasse showcases a stunning variety of colors as an adult. © Yi-Kai Tea – By Ashley Strickland, CNN Published 2022 Mar 10 – Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, …
Researchers HAVE found ants are as accurate as dogs in sniffing out cancer but they can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 10 – A fascinating new proof-of-concept study from a team of researchers in …