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Nov 7, 2018
Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
These maps sketch out the remnants of long-lost landmasses trapped within drifting continental plates called cratons. While some cratons are already well-understood, Antarctica’s lithospheric structure is tough to examine because of its remote location and the enormous ice sheets that obscure its underlying geology.
“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica,” said study co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, science leader of geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, in a statement. “In East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.”
Nov 7, 2018
New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves.
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We talked to the author of a study about why people are deeply unchill about those who don’t want to ever spawn offspring.
Nov 7, 2018
Trapped In 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, A Beetle Reveals The History Of Modern-Day Continents
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A tiny fossil rove beetle helps to reconstruct the breakup of the former supercontinent Gondwana 99 million years ago and the formation of our modern world.
Nov 7, 2018
Samsung Foldable Phone Launching This Week, Developer Conference Reveals
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, mobile phones
Nov 6, 2018
The Way We Define a Kilogram Could Change Next Week
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The future of mass depends on a conference vote next week.
A long-discussed resolution for next week’s General Conference on Weights and Measures would toss out the international prototype of the kilogram—a hunk of platinum and iridium in Paris that everyone agrees weighs 1 kilogram. Instead, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) would redefine the International System of Units to ensure that kilograms are based on things that can’t change over time. It would require an entire rethinking of how kilograms work.
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Nov 6, 2018
Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan
Posted by Derick Lee in category: futurism
The Wellcome Trust, which gave out £1.1 billion (US$1.4 billion) in grants in 2016–17, is also the first funder to detail how it intends to implement Plan S. Its approach suggests that journals may not need to switch wholesale to open-access (OA) models by 2020 to be compliant with Plan S — if the initiative’s other backers decide on a similar line.
The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.
Nov 5, 2018
Spacecraft Are About To Sample Two Asteroids Worth Over $83 Billion Combined
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, space
Two different spacecraft are currently preparing to swipe a hunk of two different asteroids that they’ve been journeying toward for the past few years. The asteroids could also be among the most profitable to mine for resources at some point in the future.