Happy Powers of Eleven Day!
A year and a half from now, the Planetary Society plans to put a small box into space, which will unfurl into a solar sail-driven spacecraft, which could allow it to reach the edge of the solar system in five years.
LightSail-1, Solar Sail Space Craft
Credit: Planetary Society
Elephant seals sleep while diving down 1,000 feet or more during their yearly migrations which keep them out to see for eight months at a time.
Areas of sea exposed by the melting ice caps are soaking up carbon dioxide, offsetting warming minutely.
Living beyond our child-bearing years, blushing, and extremely long childhoods are a few of the things that make humans special.
Terrific in depth coverage about what we are learning from the Voyager probes concerning the boundaries of our Solar System and what lies beyond them.
Boundaries of the Solar System
Credit: NASA
The first time we encounter an odor, it takes a special place in the brain, which is why some smells bring up nostalgic memories of childhood.
Ten years after the discovery of mirror neurons in the brain, where the same regions of the brain become activated in a person watching someone performing a physical task as the person performing it, and following research finds a similar overlap in the brains of blind people listening to other performing work.
The “Panama Alien” is actually a dead, bloated sloth, which only makes it slightly less creepy.
Solar Sail Simulations:
