Fortschritt… College Students Hatch Nuclear-Powered Magnetic Plan to Protect Marsonauts from Cosmic Rays 24 Apr 201923 Apr 2019 A group of undergrad students is developing a magnetic shield to defend interplanetary astronauts from the intense cosmic radiation between Earth and Mars. By Rafi Letzter | SPACE.com The students,…
Bildung… Amazing Photos: Brilliant Comet 46P/Wirtanen Wows Stargazers 14 Dez 201813 Dez 2018 The bright-green Comet 46P/Wirtanen is visible to the naked eye in the night sky throughout the month of December 2018 as it makes a close approach to the sun. It…
Bildung… Why Does the Earth Rotate? 29 Aug 201828 Aug 2018 Every day, the Earth spins once around its axis, making sunrises and sunsets a daily feature of life on the planet. It has done so since it formed 4.6 billion…
Fortschritt… NASA Has a Plan to Defend Earth Against Asteroid Impacts 21 Jun 201820 Jun 2018 NASA has a plan to protect the Earth from death by asteroid, and the space agency will unveil it to the world today (June 20). But don't panic yet, NASA…
Bildung… Newfound Alien Planet is a Metal-Heavy Cannonball 30 Mrz 201829 Mrz 2018 Scientists have discovered a metal-heavy cannonball of an exoplanet resembling an Earth-size version of Mercury. By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com This newfound world could help shed light on the…
Ökonomie… The Plan to Build a Gold Mine on a Seismic Fault in Greece 2 Feb 20181 Feb 2018 “The problem is that we can never predict when an earthquake can strike.” By Sarah Souli | MOTHERBOARD The graffiti is splashed along the highways and side roads, riddled with…
Ökonomie… Jimmy Kimmel Lays Out the Catastrophe Trump’s Paris Agreement Withdrawal in Terms Even the President Should Understand 3 Jun 20172 Jun 2017 "If climate change destroys human life on Earth, it could be bad for business." By Alexandra Rosenmann | AlterNet As predicted, President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord…
Bildung… Meet the Photographer Hunting for Extraterrestrial Dust on Paris Rooftops 20 Mai 201719 Mai 2017 Jon Larsen has spent the eight years years hunting and photographing extraterrestrial dust in cities around the world—something NASA thought was impossible. By Daniel Oberhaus | MOTHERBOARD Every day, the…
Geschichte… Inside Italy’s Thriving Market for Earthquake Pseudoscience 17 Apr 201716 Apr 2017 Legitimate fears of deadly earthquakes are fueling a cottage industry of bogus detectors and predictors. By Frederico Formica | MOTHERBOARD Earthquakes are a fact of life in central Italy. On…
Geschichte… Nobody Is Sure What Caused a Mysterious Radiation Spike Across Europe 21 Feb 201720 Feb 2017 Some speculate a Russian nuclear test in the Arctic, but experts say a pharmaceutical facility could be responsible. By Ben Sullivan | MOTHERBOARD Nuclear scientists are struggling to determine the…
Fortschritt… Twitter Has Made Our Alien Contact Protocols Obsolete 20 Feb 201719 Feb 2017 Social media will make an alien encounter much more complicated. By Daniel Oberhaus | MOTHERBOARD In 1990, the International Academy of Astronautics published a special issue of their journal ,…
Geschichte… Earth Has Been Sneezing Biogenic Oxygen on the Moon for Billions of Years 31 Jan 201730 Jan 2017 The Moon may be liberally sprinkled with oxygen created by life on Earth, according to new research published Monday in Nature Astronomy. This opens up the possibility that “the Earth’s…
Bildung… We’re Getting A Lot Better at Looking for Habitable Planets 29 Jan 201728 Jan 2017 Good news! If recent events inspire you to look for a way off this planet, we just got a lot better at hunting for another habitable space rock. As researchers…
Fortschritt… These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life 25 Jan 201724 Jan 2017 Twenty years after they first met and 15 years since they began work on the project, oceanographers Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks have finally realized their vision of a robot…
Bildung… Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded to Study the Nearest Exoplanets to Earth 12 Jan 201711 Jan 2017 One of the biggest space stories of 2016 was the discovery of the Earth-scale planet Proxima b in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. By Becky…
Bildung… The Moon May Have Started as Dozens of ‘Moonlets‘ 10 Jan 20179 Jan 2017 Some 4.5 billion years ago, an object the size of Mars smashed into the embryonic Earth. This devastating collision created a debris field around our young planet that eventually coalesced…
Bildung… The Top 10 Scientific Discoveries that Renewed Our Faith in Humanity This Year 1 Jan 201731 Dez 2016 On each of the three NASA Mars rovers, there’s a tiny inscription written on the sun dial. It details the mission and what us mere Earthlings hoped to achieve by…
Bildung… Sonnenzwilling ist ein Planetenfresser 19 Dez 2016 Planetarer Todesfall: Astronomen haben einen sonnenähnlichen Stern entdeckt, der mindestens einen seiner Planeten verschlungen haben muss. Darauf deutet unter anderem ein starker Überschuss an Lithium im 300 Lichtjahre entfernten Sonnenzwilling…
Bildung… Six New Species Discovered Near Thermal Vents on Ocean Floor 19 Dez 201618 Dez 2016 In 2011, a team of marine ecologists led by Jon Copley sent a remotely operated submarine nearly two miles underwater to observe a field of hydrothermal vents in the southwest…
Ökonomie… Scientists Turned Carbon Dioxide Into Solid Rock In 2 Years 21 Nov 201620 Nov 2016 Scientists have been working together to reduce carbon emissions on a global scale and are looking for solutions to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2). Now, a team of researchers…
Ökonomie… Why ESA Scientists Really Want to Crash a Satellite into an Asteroid 21 Nov 201620 Nov 2016 On December 1 and 2, the ministers from the European Space Agency’s 22 member states will convene in Lucerne, Switzerland to discuss future ESA missions and how to fund them.…
