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A decade-long quest to build an ecosystem in a room
Via: Dig • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 5 years ago
“Essentially, we are trying to duplicate the main functions of Earth's ecosystem, without the huge atmosphere, ocean and soil buffers.”
Yesterday the MELiSSA pilot plant at the University of Barcelona celebrated 10 years spent demonstrating the ideal technologies to recycle waste from space missions into air, water and food. As astronauts explore farther into our Solar System, there will be a need to reduce the reliance on...
SpaceX conducts Static Fire on Falcon Heavy ahead of Arabsat 6A launch
Via: Dig • Other • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
Over a year after its previous flight, SpaceX conducted the Static Fire test on its second Falcon Heavy. This rocket – the first Block 5 Falcon Heavy – will launch Arabsat 6A to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from LC-39A. The static fire took place on Friday, with the test occurring...
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2018 - Biology / Evolution - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
Via: Dig • Health, Science & Technology • 16 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
From Wikipedia: The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–42 because of the Second World War. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general...
Sergei Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulets
Via: Dig • Entertainment • 7 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago
From the Wikipedia article: Montagues and Capulets, (Russian: Монтек и Капулетти) also known as Dance of the Knights, is a work of classical music written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The piece is the first one in the Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64ter, which consists of...
The Darwin Day Lecture 2019, with Richard Dawkins
Via: Dig • Health, Science & Technology • 559 Comments • 11 Likes • 5 years ago
See also... Richard Dawkins awarded inaugural Humanists UK Darwin Day medal To celebrate Darwin Day on 12 February 2019, Humanists UK hosted its largest annual Darwin Day Lecture to date, given by evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins and chaired by evolutionary anthropologist...
InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars
Via: Dig • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 6 years ago
First clear view of Elysium Planitia: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed the signals, which were received on Earth at about...
A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday
Via: Dig • Environment/Climate • 1 Comments • 6 years ago
“In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United...”
By Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic - November 23, 2018 Excerpts from the article: On Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, the federal government published a massive and dire new report on climate change. The report warns, repeatedly and directly, that climate change could soon...
Something unbelievably freaky happened today -- The eerie, devastating coincidence that connects Redskins QBs Alex Smith and Joe Theismann
Via: Dig • Sports • 10 Comments • 6 years ago
Joe Theismann broke his right tibia and fibula on Nov. 18, 1985 in a game in Washington that ended 23-21. The only three-time Defensive Player of the Year Lawrence Taylor was involved in the injury, which occurred around the 40-yard line. Alex Smith broke his right tibia and fibula on Nov....
Social relationships more important than hard evidence in partisan politics: study
Via: Dig • Health, Science & Technology • 34 Comments • 6 years ago
“Partisan groupings evolve to become extreme, ultimately resulting in the formation of "echo chambers" in which political beliefs go unchallenged...”
The basic human need to get along with others results in the formation of extreme political groupings, according to a study from Dartmouth College. The findings, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, add to the widening body of research on the behavior of social and political...
