Outer Reaches A team of scientists says it’s spotted what might be the first-known exoplanet in an entirely different galaxy. There could be billions of exoplanets within our own galaxy, but finding new worlds in even the next galaxies over is vastly more difficult. Now, with evidence that a planet-sized object is orbiting a binary …
A team of scientists claim they’ve determined a way to figure out if there’s life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars — and that it would be worth having a look by drilling down into the surface. The team, from the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Florida Institute of …
HTML and CSS are powerful tools. Yet building a site from scratch can be a time-consuming chore, even for an experienced web developer. And as demand for web developers rises through the next decade, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and the committee at work charged with building their department’s web page are going to need all the …
Dual Purpose During Tesla’s Battery Day event on Tuesday evening, CEO Elon Musk revealed how he plans to integrate batteries into the structural elements of the car. In other words, the batteries themselves could one day serve as internal structures themselves. “All modern airplanes, the fuel tank, your wing is just a fuel tank and …
Beyond Ludicrous During Tesla’s Battery Day event Tuesday evening, CEO Elon Musk showed off a video of its upcoming “Plaid” version of its Model S sedan. And it’s incredibly fast: zero to 60 mph in under two seconds, top speed of 200 mph — plus a revolutionary range of 520 miles. Three motors bring the …
Evasive Maneuvers On Tuesday night, the International Space Station (ISS) had to swerve out of the way of a piece of incoming space junk. It’s the third time this year alone that the ISS has had to pull an evasive maneuver, according to SpaceNews. The junk sailed past without incident, but now NASA Administrator Jim …
Space Worms If long-term missions to space or even new worlds are to have any chance of success, astronauts will likely need to learn to grow their own food. That means developing a space version of agriculture. Now, scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the biotech company Pheronym brought the idea one step …
40-Year Plan On Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping made the unexpected announcement that China plans to become totally carbon-neutral by the year 2060. Doing so would be an incredibly ambitious — and unprecedented — move for a country that currently burns more fossil fuels than any other on Earth, Bloomberg News reports. But it is …
Picture frames that display digital photographs rather than physical prints aren’t exactly new. But due to social distancing and increased isolation, the ability to view digital images of friends and loved ones has taken on a whole new meaning. And when it comes to choosing the right digital frame, the Skylight Frame should be at …
New Look For the first time in a decade, Wikipedia is getting a makeover. Many major website redesigns have been famously unpopular, and Wikipedia’s current layout is more intuitive than most. But the Wikimedia Foundation wants to change its appearance to not only appear more modern, according to the Wikimedia blog, but also to be …