Our Universe May Have Emerged from a 4-Dimensional Black Hole
No, really, that’s probably the best way we could put it without confusing our readers further. According to a team of physicists, this hypothesis checks out with what we know about the universe and current mathematical models.
Rosetta Arrives at Target Comet
Today, after a decade-long journey chasing its target, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe, carrying three NASA instruments, became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Seeing Music Without Hallucinogens
MIT has found a way to see sound. Yes. You heard that right. We can now reproduce sounds that were played in the presence of an object using only the visual recording of that object.
The First Man-Made Biological Leaf Turns Light and Water Into Oxygen
Julian Melchiorri, a student at the Royal College of Art, has invented an artificial photosynthetic leaf after pondering interstellar travel. The future inches closer.
The Most Accurate Model Yet Of Jupiter’s Bizarre Magnetic Field
Take a look at Jupiter’s massive magnetosphere that resembles something from a Lovecraftian space horror, extending 4 million miles from the gas giant’s surface.
Seeing Earth As An Exoplanet: What Signs Of Life Are Visible?
An extraterrestrial spacecraft lurking in a satellite’s orbit near Earth would be able to see city lights and pollution in our atmosphere. But what if it searched for signs of life on Earth from afar?
Repurposing in Action: Old Tech Becomes New Lamp
Ecology Center’s intern, Alex, gave new life to an old iMac from a “free pile” on the street. Now it’s a lamp and a wall clock. In addition to making our environments homier, re-purposing old tech goes a long way for paving a culture of sustainability in the otherwise short life cycle of the tech industry.
The Secret of Minecraft
There are dangerous creatures lurking in this world, including but not limited to giant spiders and skeleton archers. But they only venture out at night, and they can be deterred by walls. The sun (a bright cube) sets fast, so your first task is always the same: Build a shelter.
The genius of Minecraft is that the game does not specify how this is done.
Crude Simulations
The Human Connectome Project is going deep and then deeper. It is allowing one to “Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible.”
Higgs Boson Glimpsed at Work For the First Time
The Higgs boson has finally been glimpsed by scientists working at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), affirming the missing piece in today’s standard model of particle physics.
