Could We Control the Weather to Solve Extreme Droughts?
As severe droughts threaten regions across the world, scientists have proposed a solution that sounds like science fiction: What if we just make it rain ourselves?
Ecovative Design: Manufactured Wood Made Without Trees
Ecovative Design has made a mission of replacing synthetic plastic polymers with natural mushroom based polymers. After disrupting the packaging industry with a line of fully biodegradable mushroom packaging, they are now setting their sights on replacing manufactured wood products. (Video by Brandon Lisy, Justin Beach)
Why We Should NOT Look For Aliens – The Dark Forest
The Universe is incredibly big and seems full of potential for life, with billions of habitable planets. If an advanced civilization had the technology to travel between the stars, at just 0.1% of the speed of light, It could colonize our galaxy in roughly 100 million years. Which is not that long given the billions […]
The Great Filter Hypothesis With Neil deGrasse Tyson – The Solution to The Fermi Paradox
Beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a compelling case for why if even intelligent alien life exists elsewhere in the Universe, it is extremely rare. Neil Tyson mentions the fact that the evolutionary tree of life on Earth suggests intelligence is not that important when it comes for survival. Neil deGrasse Tyson also talks about […]
Lechuga transgénica para evitar la pérdida ósea de los astronautas
Agencia SINC La NASA se está preparando para enviar seres humanos a Marte en la década de 2030. En esa misión, de unos tres años de duración, los astronautas se verán expuestos a un largo periodo de microgravedad que les hará perder masa del hueso. Algunos estudios indican una pérdida media de más del 1 % de material óseo por […]
Making Contact – Neil deGrasse Tyson on Alien Life
How would scientists tell the world if they found evidence for alien life? According to SETI, the probability of finding alien life somewhere in the Milky Way is high, based on a number of studies showing that our galaxy contains countless Earth-like planets that orbit sun-like stars. Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks we are probably not […]
Un nuevo atlas de la avifauna ibérica alerta sobre la pérdida de biodiversidad
Agencia SINC La tercera edición del Atlas de las Aves en Época de Reproducción en España, presentado hoy por SEO/BirdLife, da a conocer la distribución, las tendencias y las poblaciones de las 302 especies que se reproducen en nuestro territorio y de otras 148 presentes en primavera. España cuenta con ocho endemismos de aves a escala mundial, […]
How mushrooms clean up the planet (and other fungi powers)
They are mostly invisible, essential for life on earth and could be the building blocks of our future. Here’s how fungi can clean up our soils from the mess we created – and even house us.
Cloud seeding works, but should we still do it?
As temperatures rise, cloud seeding is bound to become a popular solution against droughts, floods, and fires. Do we really have the technology to make it rain? And if so, should we use it?
Can desalination solve the global water crisis?
We have the desalination technology to transform seawater into freshwater. So why are we not using it to solve the global water crisis? We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our […]
Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?
Today, one out of three people don’t have access to safe drinking water. And that’s the result of many things, but one of them is that 96.5% of that water is found in our oceans. It’s saturated with salt, and undrinkable. Most of the freshwater is locked away in glaciers or deep underground. Less than […]
Un análisis del polen fósil muestra que la mortalidad de la peste negra tuvo un impacto muy desigual
Agencia SINC La mortalidad de la peste negra no fue tan homogénea como han reflejado hasta ahora los libros de historia. Una nueva investigación, publicada en la revista Nature Ecology and Evolution, extrae esta conclusión del análisis de polen y esporas fosilizados recogidos en toda Europa. “Hemos descubierto que la considerada peor pandemia de la historia tuvo un […]
Carl Sagan – COSMOS – Evolution
Evolution – Carl Sagan describing evolution
Carl Sagan – Cosmos – Eratosthenes
Carl Sagan explaining how to measure Earth curvature Carl Sagan – Cosmos – Eratosthenes