Tag: sounds

A space cocktail of science, bubbles and sounds

The International Space Station was again the stage for novel European science and routine operations during the first half of August. Plenty of action in the form of bubbles and sounds added to the mix in the run-up to a spacewalk and the comings and goings of visiting vehicles. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-space-cocktail-science.html…

Google Launches ‘Live View’ AR Walking Directions For Google Maps

Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level support for AR. On iOS, that means ARKit-compatible devices, and on Android, that means any smartphones that support Google’s ARcore, so long as “Street View” is also available where…

Why the news on dementia deaths is not as bad as it sounds

Dementia has been named the leading cause of death in England and Wales, but individual risk for the condition is falling, and cancer actually kills more people Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212892-why-the-news-on-dementia-deaths-is-not-as-bad-as-it-sounds/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Scientists Are Using the Cold of Outer Space To Rethink Air Conditioning

A California-based company called SkyCool Systems is in the early stages of manufacturing a cooling system that’s more energy efficient than anything humans have used for a century. It’s doing it using radiative cooling, a concept that was used in the Middle East and India hundreds of years ago. Quartz reports: To understand how radiative cooling works, forget for a moment…

Check out this cool video map of known exoplanets

This short video, just over a minute long, takes you on a journey from 1991, when no exoplanets were known, to today’s 4,003+ known exoplanets. Why the plus? According to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, the number of known exoplanets has already jumped up to 4,031 and counting! Source: https://earthsky.org/space/time-lapse-video-map-exoplanets-2019…

A new species of duck-billed dinosaur

Duck-billed dinosaurs – hadrosaurids – were common 80 million years ago. Now scientists have discovered a complete skull of a previously unknown species of hadrosaurid, which sported unusual skull and face features. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/new-species-duck-billed-dinosaur-texas…

Why do birds sing?

Birds spend a lot of time and energy singing, but they don’t do it the same way in every season of the year. And some can’t sing at all. What’s the purpose of birdsong? Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-do-birds-sing…

James Bond Was Going To Fight Robot Sharks With Nukes In New York’s Sewers

dryriver writes: The line “sharks with fricking lasers” was once popular on Slashdot. It sounds like a joke, but a never-made James Bond movie co-written back in the day by Sean Connery was actually going to feature robotic sharks carrying stolen NATO nukes in order to attack New York. Bond was going to stop the sharks inside the New York sewer…