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Dec 23
2018

2019: the year of moon missions, marijuana and mega-hub airports | The Economist

From groundbreaking moon missions to growth in the legal-cannabis market, 2019 will be year of new highs. Here’s what to watch out for in the year ahead.

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Dec 22
2018

To the Moon and Back: Apollo 8 and the Future of Lunar Exploration

Muscle cars. Film cameras. Bell-bottoms. 8-tracks. It’s 1968. Astronauts Borman, Lovell and Anders get a call to cancel their holiday plans. By December, the three were suddenly farther away than any human had ever been from our home planet. Start your flashback here: https://go.nasa.gov/2Ey19dY

Dec 22
2018

China Has Built a Giant Floating Solar Power Plant

We can barely believe our eyes – this solar power plant floats in a man-made lake… over what was once a filthy coal mine. (via World Economic Forum)

Dec 22
2018

A long-awaited battery that would cut electric-vehicle costs may finally be close

24M is reducing manufacturing costs by stripping out extraneous materials—and just got $22 million to begin building its first commercial factory.

Dec 22
2018

LEAF Festive Fireside Chat 2018

Join us for the LEAF Festive Fireside chat where we are talking about this years coolest science, our favourite moments and looking to our future goals.

Dec 22
2018

This 195-gigapixel photo of Shanghai is so huge you can zoom in from miles away and see people’s faces

Smartphone cameras have gotten so good that we struggle to find a reason to invest in a point-and-shoot, but there are still major advancements being made in camera tech that are light years ahead of anything you can fit in your pocket. A new panorama shot by China’s Jingkun Technology (calling themselves “Big Pixel”) is a great example of that, and its size is so jaw-dropping you could spend days staring at it.

The photo, taken from high on the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, shows the surrounding landscape in stunning detail. From your virtual perch many stories above the ground, you can zoom in so far that you can read the license plates on cars and spot smiling faces greeting each other on the sidewalk.

Dec 22
2018

25 Genes Responsible for Extending Human Lifespan Have Been Identified

Long live these genes!

Dec 22
2018

What to eat for brain health as you age

Want to preserve memory? Leafy greens, berries and orange juice may help.

Dec 22
2018

Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory About Our Universe Will Melt Your Brain

Nope. Too late already. It’s been molten long ago already ha…

Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.

The paper, published in the Journal of High Energy Physics in May, puts forward that the Universe is far less complex than current multiverse theories suggest.

It’s based around a concept called eternal inflation, first introduced in 1979 and published in 1981.

Dec 22
2018

Bespoke suicide pods now available for death in style

Check out these assisted-suicide pods that some are calling the “Tesla” of death.

Sarco assisted suicide pods come in three different styles, and allow you to die quickly and painlessly. They’re even quite beautiful to look at.