NASA The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), NASA’s newest planet-hunter, just hit another milestone: It has discovered its first exoplanet. On Monday, NASA shared the space telescope’s “first light” data, revealing hundreds of thousands of stars in the southern sky that it has set it sights on and confirming that, […]
Daily Archives: September 20, 2018
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It looks and feels more like an art museum or fancy loft than a car factory. The so-called Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany, has Canadian Maple wood floors, soft indirect lighting and full-glass walls that required five soccer fields worth of glass. It was built specifically to assemble the Volkswagen […]
Yes indeed, I may have read the absolute worst video game review in the history of video game reviews and this time it’s on Spiderman for PS4 #SpidermanPS4 #Spiderman Archive-web.archive.org/web/20180911002952/https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/they-turned-spider-man-into-a-damn-cop-and-it-sucks-1828944087
If you’re a big sports fans then there’s two very good offers from Sky’s NOW TV. This streaming service is currently offering some discounts with boxing fans able to purchase this weekend’s Joshua v Povetkin fight and get a month’s Sky Sports Pass for just £19.95. This deal saves over […]
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Gut feeling: Sensory neurons inside the gut inform the vagus nerve (yellow) and brain how our stomachs and intestines are doing. NICOLLE R. FULLER/Science Source By Emily UnderwoodSep. 20, 2018 , 2:00 PM The human gut is lined with more than 100 million nerve cells—it’s practically a brain unto itself. […]
Dickinsonia lived in the oceans more than 540 million years ago. Ilya Bobrovskiy/Australian National University By Gretchen VogelSep. 20, 2018 , 2:00 PM For more than 70 years, scientists have puzzled over the bewildering shapes of half-a-billion-year-old fossils that don’t look like any other organisms that have ever lived on […]
Distant mammal ancestors such as Dimetrodon (right) had three spine regions; a mouse (left) has five. K. JONES ET AL., SCIENCE, 361, 6408 (2018) By Elizabeth PennisiSep. 20, 2018 , 2:00 PM Run, climb, breathe deep. You might not connect those abilities to your backbone. In fact, mammals owe many […]