by sagesgroup | Sep 17, 2023 | homepage, Innovation, Movies, reel science, Science, Science Fiction
Douglas Trumbull is best known as Hollywood’s special effects guru. From 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and 1982’s Blade Runner, he brought the fantastical visions of other writers and directors life. But in 1983, Trumbull tried making a movie of his own — and stumbled...by sagesgroup | Jul 6, 2023 | Health, homepage, Innovation, Science
The Book of Life — a.k.a. the genome — is pretty darn long. Whether we’re talking about bacteria like Escherichia coli with 4.6 million base pairs or the Australian lungfish punching in at a cool 43 billion base pairs (14 times larger than the human genome), the...by sagesgroup | May 9, 2023 | Astronomy, Environment, homepage, hp-latest, Innovation, NASA, technology, Weather
On May 7, the first two satellites from NASA’s new storm-monitoring mission lifted off from northeast New Zealand. The agency tapped Rocket Lab, a private spaceflight company and launch provider, to send two shoebox-sized satellites off to low-Earth orbit — about 340...by sagesgroup | Mar 27, 2023 | homepage, Innovation, NASA, Science, Space Science, Syndicated, technology
One of the most exciting aspects of the current era of space exploration (Space Age 2.0) is how time-honored ideas are finally being realized. Some of the more well-known examples include retrievable and reusable rockets, retrieval at sea, mid-air retrieval,...by sagesgroup | Mar 12, 2023 | Biology, Climate Crisis, Environment, Innovation, nature, Science, space, Syndicated, The Conversation
Our planet holds a lot of trash. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have produced 30 trillion tons of stuff — from skyscrapers and bridges to clothes and plastic bags. Much of it is still with us in the form of waste. Globally, people add 350 million tons to this...by sagesgroup | Mar 3, 2023 | Climate Crisis, Environment, homepage, hp-latest, Innovation, Science, technology
Earth’s landscape has always been in flux. But most large-scale changes take far longer to manifest than we’ll ever witness in our lifetimes. Hundreds of millions of years had to pass for the continents to split apart, creating the seven land masses we know today....