The European Space Agency announced this week that its next science mission will be a space telescope to study the composition of planets around other stars. The Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large‐survey mission (Ariel) was chosen a...
It has been used to identify suspected weapons sites, monitor troop movements, and chronicle war damage and allegations of genocide. Now, however, satellite imagery is being used to tackle one of the developing world’s most persistent problems – the...
803 Shares Amy Adams (right) as Louise Banks in "Arrival."Image: Photo Credit: Jan Thijs By Sony Pictures Arrival2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC Never has the linguistics profession been so badass, so nuanced, so full of intrigue. At first glance,...
[embedded content] A series of heartfelt letters written by children were recently launched into the heavens — the stratosphere, specifically — and brought back to Earth, where they were returned to the kids who wrote them. World View, a private sp...