NASA may make a mechanical computer to navigate Venus’ surface0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 5, 2017
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21st century, meet IRL steampunk.
Observations by Japan’s Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet’s atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a phenomenon called superrotation.
A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy.
Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark.
J. Allen Hynek was hired as an Air Force astronomer to debunk the myth of UFOs but later on became a UFO believer.
The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster – a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studied for thousands of years by cultures all over the world.
Researchers may have found the answer to the mystery of how early hominids processed tar as an adhesive.
A team of researchers from the U.S. and Italy has built a quantum memory device that is approximately 1000 times smaller than similar devices—small enough to install on a chip.
Barely 30 years ago, many researchers did not believe that upper atmospheric lightning existeduntil 1989 when researchers from the University of Minnesota captured them on video tape.