Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
The idea of the "life cycle" appeals to many people regardless of faith. In a nutshell, it's life turning to life – death is in the background. The Italian project The Capsula Mundi is a perfect representation of this concept. Developed by designers Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel, the design consists of an organic and […]
Every once in awhile, as a person who writes about space, I encounter folks who don’t believe in it. Or don’t believe we’ve ever been there, anyway. Or that our robots have been there. Or that the Earth is round (but that’s a whole other thing.) But while tweets about how “astronauts” on the “International” “Space” […]
The Brazilian Meteorological Monitoring Network (BRAMON) is composed of hundreds of operators throughout Brazil that aim to point cameras to the sky and capture the famous "shooting stars" – popular name for the meteor phenomenon. One of these stations, operated by Edgar Mendes Merizio and located more precisely in the city of São José do […]
La rete di monitoraggio meteorologico brasiliano (BRAMON) è composta da centinaia di operatori in tutto il Brasile che puntano a puntare le telecamere verso il cielo e catturare le famose "stelle cadenti", nome popolare del fenomeno meteorico. Una di queste stazioni, gestita da Edgar Mendes Merizio e situata più precisamente nella città di São José […]
Super Earth. Resting within the constellation Leo in K2-18, a system of red dwarf stars approximately 111 light-years away, lies a newly discovered exoplanet. Astronomers call this class of "Super Earth" planets. It was found using ESO's High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), they detected this planet by exploring an already discovered exoplanet (K2-18b). […]
July 2019 will have two eclipses and both will be visible from Brazil, albeit partially. On July 2, there will be a total solar eclipse but for a good part of South America, including Brazil, it will be partial. Already on July 16, there will be a partial lunar eclipse, when it will be possible […]
At 15 tons, the largest ever discovered elamosaur corroborates the theory that the Earth harbored a vibrant An illustration shows an elasmosaurus swimming in turbulent waters. The Antarctic fossil is now the heaviest animal ever known in this group of prehistoric marine reptiles. It took decades of resistance to severe weather on a small, desolate […]
A cada dia, uma nova planta ou animal entra para a lista de espécies em extinção. E isto é grave, pois estamos começando a considerar este fato normal, o que está longe de ser. No Quênia, o líder conservacionista James Mwenda – do Ol Pejeta Conservancy, luta para preservar dois rinocerontes brancos, os últimos exemplares da espécie. Quando seu trabalho começou, […]
Nobody likes dirty beach, not even marine life. Among the animals most threatened by this pollution are turtles, often caught by deception in nets searching for shrimp or harmed due to the large amount of plastic in the seas. If life was not easy for these animals, the action of an environmentalist is changing this […]
Tara Sharifi, the Iranian girl with IQ greater than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking In recent days he has become the twelfth person whose IQ exceeds that of two great geniuses: physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, according to the Science ABC portal. Considered as an intelligence measure that is obtained after several standardized tests, […]