Archive for the ‘habitats’ category
Nov 29, 2024
Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It’s Gold. It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: habitats
In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.
Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.
Nov 20, 2024
Are We Accidentally Building A Planetary Brain?
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: habitats
From superorganisms to superintelligences, how studying crabs could reveal that we are unintentionally building an artificial world brain.
Nov 18, 2024
What SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell just declared before the Starship Flight 6 launch is mind-blowing
Posted by Chris Smedley in categories: habitats, internet, space travel, sustainability
Gwynne Shotwell discusses the transformative potential of SpaceX’s Starship program for space exploration and colonization, emphasizing its upcoming Flight 6, the importance of Starlink for revenue, and the integration of Tesla technologies for sustainable human habitats on Mars Questions to inspire discussion Launch.
Nov 9, 2024
Study shows bats have acoustic cognitive maps
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: habitats, mapping, neuroscience
This finding, published in Science, was demonstrated by researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, the Cluster of Excellence Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz, Germany, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Would you be able to instantly recognize your location and find your way home from any random point within a three-kilometer radius, in complete darkness, with only a flashlight to guide you?
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Nov 9, 2024
Could Alien Life Thrive Without a Home Planet? Study Suggests Self-Sustaining Habitats May Be Possible Beyond Earth
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: alien life, habitats
However, Dr. Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University and Dr. Charles S. Cockell of the University of Edinburgh argue that this focus has left unexplored possibilities for life in environments that don’t resemble our own.
In a preprint paper accepted for publication in the journal Astrobiology, researchers challenge conventional assumptions about extraterrestrial life and explore the feasibility of life existing in structures created by living organisms themselves.
As researchers suggest, life-supporting conditions created solely by biological structures could indeed exist, making it entirely possible for some forms of life to thrive in space habitats vastly different from those on Earth.
Nov 7, 2024
A town in California is fireproofing homes by law. Could Washington soon follow the strategy?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, law
A wildfire destroyed 90% of a town in California. Now, it’s using building ordinances to entice insurance companies back. Could Washington soon follow the strategy?
Nov 4, 2024
Volcano eruption claims 10 lives, forces thousands to flee
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: climatology, habitats
At least 10 people including a child have died in Indonesia following a series of powerful volcanic eruptions that destroyed homes and a Catholic convent, authorities said.
The eruptions, originating from Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, hit the remote island of Flores on Monday, according the country’s National Disaster Management Agency.
They began around midnight, sending thick plumes of ash up to 6,500 feet into the atmosphere and depositing hot ash on several nearby villages.
Nov 1, 2024
This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robots
Posted by Mike Diverde in categories: habitats, robotics/AI
Pick and place bots autonomously doing household chores. Progress! 🦾🤖
The idea of a robot that does a wide range of household chores, from unloading the dryer to folding laundry to cleaning up a messy table, has long seemed like pure science fiction—perhaps most famously embodied by the 1960s fantasy that was Rosey in The Jetsons.
Physical Intelligence, a startup in San Francisco, has shown that such a dream might actually not be so far off, demonstrating a single artificial intelligence model that has learned to do a wide range of useful home chores—including all of the above—by being trained on an unprecedented amount of data.
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Nov 1, 2024
This Sponge Captures the Teeny Bits of Gold in Electronic Waste
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: habitats
A self-building sponge that efficiently collects gold could eliminate some harsh methods used to process e-waste.
By Ben Guarino