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By examining infrared images taken by NASA satellites orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, space archaeologists have identified 17 pyramids buried deep under the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis, Egypt. Tanis, abandoned centuries ago, is famous as the fictional home of the Lost Ark from the Indiana Jones movies. Satellite images also showed other lost structures, upwards of 3,000 settlements, and 1,000 lost tombs, buried for thousands of years.
"What these satellites do is they record light radiation that's reflected off the surface of the Earth in different parts of the light spectrum," Said Sarah Parcak scientist, professor, Egyptologist, anthropologist, and the 2016 winner of the $1 million TED prize. "We use false color imaging to try to tease out these very subtle differences on the ground."
The satellite images are an archaeologist's clues to what might lie under a rice paddy or a city street. "You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible," Parcak says. "You're actually able to see settlements and tombs — and even things like buried pyramids — that you might not otherwise be able to see."
What Parcak's team located were 17 structures that had a similar size, shape and orientation to other pyramids in the area. Initial excavations indicate that at least two of the structures are most likely pyramids, but Parcak added, "we're not going to be able to say with a 100-percent certainty that they are pyramids until they're excavated."
Her team joined up with an excavation team onsite in Egypt, where they found the excavated structure matched the satellite images almost perfectly.
"We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed," Parcak says. "So we have to be really selective about where we dig." The new tools might just buy archaeologists a little more time. We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone."
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NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, flew over the Helheim/Kangerdlugssuaq region of Greenland on Sept. 11, 2016. This photograph from the flight captures Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, with the midmorning sun glinting off of the Denmark Strait in the background. IceBridge completed the final flight of the summer campaign to observe the impact of the summer melt season on the ice sheet on Sept. 16.
The IceBridge flights, which began on Aug. 27, are mostly repeats of lines that the team flew in early May, so that scientists can observe changes in ice elevation between the spring and late summer. For this short, end-of-summer campaign, the IceBridge scientists flew aboard an HU-25A Guardian aircraft from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
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"We've used Titan's gravity throughout the mission to sling Cassini around the Saturn system," said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL. "Now Titan is coming through for us once again, providing a way for Cassini to get into these completely unexplored regions so close to the planet."
The spacecraft to leap over the rings with a single (and final) Titan flyby in April, 2017 to begin its Grand Finale.
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific odyssey is planned for September 2017, but not before the spacecraft completes a daring two-part endgame.
Beginning on November 30, Cassini's orbit will send the spacecraft just past the outer edge of the main rings. These orbits, a series of 20, are called the F-ring orbits. During these weekly orbits, Cassini will approach to within 4,850 miles (7,800 kilometers) of the center of the narrow F ring, with its peculiar kinked and braided structure.
"During the F-ring orbits we expect to see the rings, along with the small moons and other structures embedded in them, as never before," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "The last time we got this close to the rings was during arrival at Saturn in 2004, and we saw only their backlit side. Now we have dozens of opportunities to examine their structure at extremely high resolution on both sides."
Cassini's final phase—called the Grand Finale—begins in earnest in April 2017. A close flyby of Saturn's giant moon Titan will reshape the spacecraft's orbit so that it passes through the gap between Saturn and the rings - an unexplored space only about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) wide.
The spacecraft is expected to make 22 plunges through this gap, beginning with its first dive on April 27.
During the Grand Finale, Cassini will make the closest-ever observations of Saturn, mapping the planet's magnetic and gravity fields with exquisite precision and returning ultra-close views of the atmosphere.
Scientists also hope to gain new insights into Saturn's interior structure, the precise length of a Saturn day, and the total mass of the rings—which may finally help settle the question of their age. The spacecraft will also directly analyze dust-sized particles in the main rings and sample the outer reaches of Saturn's atmosphere—both first-time measurements for the mission.
"It's like getting a whole new mission," said Spilker. "The scientific value of the F ring and Grand Finale orbits is so compelling that you could imagine a whole mission to Saturn designed around what we're about to do."
Since the beginning of 2016, mission engineers have been tweaking Cassini's orbital path around Saturn to position the spacecraft for the mission's final phase. They have sent the spacecraft on a series of flybys past Titan that are progressively raising the tilt of Cassini's orbit with respect to Saturn's equator and rings.
The Grand Finale will come to a dramatic end on Sept. 15, 2017, as Cassini dives into Saturn's atmosphere, returning data about the planet's chemical composition until its signal is lost. Friction with the atmosphere will cause the spacecraft to burn up like a meteor soon afterward.
To celebrate the beginning of the final year and the adventure ahead, the Cassini team is releasing a new movie of the rotating planet, along with a color mosaic, both taken from high above Saturn's northern hemisphere. The movie covers 44 hours, or just over four Saturn rotations.
"This is the sort of view Cassini will have as the spacecraft repeatedly climbs high above Saturn's northern latitudes before plunging past the outer—and later the inner—edges of the rings," said Spilker.
And so, although the mission's end is approaching—with a "Cassini Final Plunge" clock already counting down in JPL mission control—an extremely important phase of the mission is still to come.
"We may be counting down, but no one should count Cassini out yet," said Curt Niebur, Cassini program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The journey ahead is going to be a truly thrilling ride."
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Supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, are found at the centers of galaxies. Many of these galactic behemoths are hidden within a thick doughnut-shape ring of dust and gas known as a torus. Previous observations suggest these cloaking, tire-like structures are formed from the native material found near the center of a galaxy.
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), however, reveal that the black hole at the center of a galaxy named NGC 1068 is actually the source of its own dusty torus of dust and gas, forged from material flung out of the black hole's accretion disk.
This newly discovered cosmic fountain of cold gas and dust could reshape our understanding of how black holes impact their host galaxy and potentially the intergalactic medium.
"Think of a black hole as an engine. It's fueled by material falling in on it from a flattened disk of dust and gas," said Jack Gallimore, an astronomer at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and lead author on a paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. "But like any engine, a black hole can also emit exhaust." That exhaust, astronomers discovered, is the likely source of the torus of material that effectively obscures the region around the galaxy's supermassive black hole from optical telescopes.
NGC 1068 (also known as Messier 77) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 47 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cetus. At its center is an active galactic nucleus, a supermassive black hole that is being fed by a thin, rotating disk of gas and dust known as an accretion disk. As material in the disk spirals toward the central black hole, it becomes superheated and blazes bright with ultraviolet radiation. The outer reaches of the disk, however, are considerably cooler and glow more appreciably in infrared light and the millimeter-wavelength light that ALMA can detect.
Using ALMA, an international team of astronomers peered deep into this region and discovered a sprinkling of cool clouds of carbon monoxide lifting off the outer portion of the accretion disk. The energy from the hot inner disk partially ionizes these clouds, enabling them to adhere to powerful magnetic field lines that wrap around the disk.
ALMA image at the top of the page shows the central region of galaxy NGC 1068. The torus of material harboring the supermassive black hole is highlighted in the pullout box. This region, which is approximately 40 light-years across, is the result of material flung out of the black hole's accretion disk. The colors in this image represent the motion of the gas: blue is material moving toward us, red moving away.
The areas in green are low velocity and consistent with rotation around a black hole. The white in the central region means the gas is moving both toward and away at very high speed, the conditions illustrated in the artist impression. The outer ring area is unrelated to the black hole and is more tied to the structure of the central 1,000 light-years of the host galaxy.
Like water being flung out of a rapidly rotating garden sprinkler, the clouds rising above the accretion disk get accelerated centrifugally along the magnetic field lines to very high speeds—approximately 400 to 800 kilometers per second (nearly 2 million miles per hour). This is up to nearly three times faster than the rotational speed of the outer accretion disk, fast enough to send the clouds hurtling further out into the galaxy.
"These clouds are traveling so fast that they reach 'escape velocity' and are jettisoned in a cone-like spray from both sides of the disk," said Gallimore. "With ALMA, we can for the first time see that it is the gas that is thrown out that hides the black hole, not the gas falling in." This suggests that the general theory of an active black hole is oversimplified, he concludes.
With future ALMA observations, the astronomers hope to work out a fuel budget for this black hole engine: how much mass per year goes into the black hole and how much is ejected as exhaust.
"These are fundamental quantities for understanding black holes that we really don't have a good handle on at this time," concludes Gallimore.
This research is presented in the paper titled "High-velocity bipolar molecular emission from an AGN torus," by J. Gallimore et al., published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on 15 September 2016. [Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/1608.02210v1.pdf ]
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NASA has astronauts in training under extreme weather conditions of Antarctica to prepare them for deep space and planetary explorations such as the manned journey to Mars. The preparation includes the astronauts undergoing tests to cope with isolation, confinement and an extreme weather environment (ICE).
"You can't walk off the ice. That goes for whether you're having a health, behavioral health or a personal issue, you're not going anywhere," Lisa Spence, project manager for NASA flight analogs in the Human Research Program said in a press release. "That is very similar to spaceflight. It changes your mindset about how you are going to respond when you know you can't leave," Spence added.
"The most helpful strategy I developed was to avoid thinking about all the things I was missing out on and instead focused on the unique things in the moment that I would never get to experience again," said NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch.
An October, 2015 NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
“We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. “Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”
Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite altimeters. In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks.
But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica's growth to reverse, according to Zwally. “If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they've been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don't think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”
The study analyzed changes in the surface height of the Antarctic ice sheet measured by radar altimeters on two European Space Agency European Remote Sensing (ERS) satellites, spanning from 1992 to 2001, and by the laser altimeter on NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) from 2003 to 2008.
Zwally said that while other scientists have assumed that the gains in elevation seen in East Antarctica are due to recent increases in snow accumulation, his team used meteorological data beginning in 1979 to show that the snowfall in East Antarctica actually decreased by 11 billion tons per year during both the ERS and ICESat periods. They also used information on snow accumulation for tens of thousands of years, derived by other scientists from ice cores, to conclude that East Antarctica has been thickening for a very long time.
“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said.
The extra snowfall that began 10,000 years ago has been slowly accumulating on the ice sheet and compacting into solid ice over millennia, thickening the ice in East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica by an average of 0.7 inches (1.7 centimeters) per year. This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice enough to outweigh the losses from fast-flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.
Zwally's team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”
“The new study highlights the difficulties of measuring the small changes in ice height happening in East Antarctica,” said Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the University of Washington in Seattle who was not involved in Zwally's study.
"Doing altimetry accurately for very large areas is extraordinarily difficult, and there are measurements of snow accumulation that need to be done independently to understand what's happening in these places,” Smith said.
To help accurately measure changes in Antarctica, NASA is developing the successor to the ICESat mission, ICESat-2, which is scheduled to launch in 2018. “ICESat-2 will measure changes in the ice sheet within the thickness of a No. 2 pencil,” said Tom Neumann, a glaciologist at Goddard and deputy project scientist for ICESat-2. “It will contribute to solving the problem of Antarctica's mass balance by providing a long-term record of elevation changes.”
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Southern China's Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the country. Located in Jiangxi province, this lake is an important habitat for migrating Siberian cranes, many of which spend the winter there.
The lake is also home to the endangered finless porpoise, a freshwater mammal known for its high level of intelligence. Amid fears that it would soon become extinct, the porpoise made headlines last year when the Chinese government moved eight of them from Poyang Lake to two secure habitats in an effort to increase the population over the coming years.
One study found that, without action, the current rate of population decrease would likely mean extinction by 2025.
For the human population, Poyang is one of China's most important rice-producing regions, although local inhabitants must contend with massive seasonal changes in water level.
Local scientists collaborating with ESA through the Dragon programme have identified an overall drop in water level in the lake over the last decade, but the El Niño weather phenomenon earlier this year caused precipitation levels to increase and water levels of the lake to rise.
Radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission have been used to monitor the evolution of the lake, including this image which combines two radar scans from 7 and 19 March.
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When it comes to exoplanets, astronomers have realized that they only know the properties of the planets they discover as well as they know the properties of the stars being orbited. For a planet's size, precisely characterizing the host star can mean the difference in our understanding of whether a distant world is small like Earth or huge like Jupiter.
For astronomers to determine the size of an exoplanet—planets outside the solar system—depends critically on knowing not only the radius of its host star but also whether that star is single or has a close companion. About half of the stars in the sky are not one but two stars orbiting around each other, this makes knowing the binary property of a star paramount.
One particularly interesting and relatively nearby star, named TRAPPIST-1, recently caught the attention of a team of researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center. They wanted to determine if TRAPPIST-1, which is home to three small, potentially rocky planets—one of which orbits in the temperate habitable zone where liquid water might pool on the surface—was a single star like the sun, or if it had a companion star. If TRAPPIST-1 did have a companion star, the discovered planets will have larger sizes, possibly large enough to be ice giants similar to Neptune.
If an exoplanet orbits a star in a binary system but astronomers believe the starlight captured by the telescope is from a single star, the real radius of the planet will be larger than measured. The difference in the measured size of the exoplanet can be small ranging from 10 percent to more than a factor of two in size, depending on the brightness of the companion star in the system.
To confirm or deny the single star nature of TRAPPIST-1, Steve Howell, senior research scientist at Ames Research Center, led an investigation of the star. Using a specially designed camera, called the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument or DSSI, Howell and his team measured the rapid disturbances in the light emitted by the star caused by the Earth's atmosphere and corrected for them. The resultant high-resolution image revealed that the light coming from the TRAPPIST-1 system is from a single star.
With the confirmation that no other companion star resides in the vicinity of TRAPPIST-1, the research team's result validates not only that transiting planets are responsible for the periodic dips seen in the star's brightness but that they are indeed Earth-size and may likely to be rocky worlds.
“Knowing that a terrestrial-size potentially rocky planet orbits in the habitable zone of a star only 40 light-years from the Earth is an awesome finding,” said Howell. “The TRAPPIST-1 system will continue to be studied in great detail as these transiting exoplanets offer one of the best chances to characterize the atmosphere of an alien world.”
Mounted on the 8-meter Gemini Observatory South telescope in Chile, the DSSI provided astronomers with the highest resolution images available today from a single ground-based telescope. The nearness of TRAPPIST-1 allowed astronomers to peer deep into the system, looking closer than Mercury's orbit to our sun.
The four-panel graphic above illustrates the difference of measured starlight when seen through a ground-based telescope with and without (top left corner) the blurring effects caused by Earth's atmosphere. The technique to neutralize Earth's atmospheric blur is called speckle interferometry. All four images are shown at the same scale. Credits: NASA/Ames/W. Stenzel
Interest in the recently-discovered TRAPPIST-1 with its three Earth-size planets is high. Astronomically speaking, at 40 light-years from Earth, the system is a hop, skip and a jump away. The star itself is a dim M-type star, which, relative to most stars, is very small and cool, but making transit detection of small planets easier.
Further detailed measurement of the planetary transits seen in TRAPPIST-1 will begin later this year when NASA's Kepler space telescope in its K2 mission will precisely monitor minute changes in the light emitted from the star for a period of about 75 days.
The space-based observations from the Kepler spacecraft will provide extremely precise measurements of the planet transit shapes allowing for more refined radius and orbital period determination. Noting variations in the mid-time of the transit events can also help astronomers determine the planet masses. Additionally, the new observations will be searched for more transiting planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system.
Speckle interferometry, the imaging technique used by the DSSI, is a powerful asset in the astronomer's toolkit as it provides a unique capability to characterize the environment around distant stars. The technique provides ultra high-resolution images by taking multiple extremely short (40-60 millisecond) exposures of a star to capture fine detail in the received light and “freeze” the turbulence caused by Earth's atmosphere.
By combining the many thousands of exposures and using mathematical techniques to remove the momentary distortions caused by Earth's atmosphere, the final result provides a resolution equal to the theoretical limit of what the 8-meter Gemini telescope would produce if no atmosphere were present.
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The cease-fire agreed to by Russia and the United States in Syria means that Aleppo and other devastated cities have been given a chance to breathe. But the temporary calm is unlikely to bring us any closer to the end of the war. Doctors can now marshal patients' immune systems to fight some cancers. Yet many people don't respond to immunotherapy, and the costs of treatment can be astronomical.
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Studio Sutherl& founder Jim Sutherl& has designed a set of six interactive Agatha Christie-themed stamps revealing the answers to classic Christie murder mysteries.
Each of the stamps is based on a separate novel by Agatha Christie, the best selling novelist of all time.
Sutherland says “visual illusions have been combined with print techniques to give hidden clues.”
People will be able to interact with the stamps as “heat sensitive ink reveals a killer behind a curtain on the train, micro text reproduces a suicide note, and Poirot and Hastings investigate a poisonous crime scene and form a skull,” says Sutherland.
Positive and negative space has also been used to help symbolise the answers to the mysteries.
“There are lots of hidden clues to see and discover with and without magnifying glasses,” says Sutherland, who has worked closely with illustrator Neil Webb.
You will need a magnifying glass for the micro-text stamp though, and you'll need UV light for another.
The stamps also commemorate Christie's birthday. She was born 126 years ago on 15 September 1890.
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What: If you're interested in record sleeves and gig posters, head to this panel talk at the V&A exploring the relationship between graphic design and music. Victoria Broackes, co-curator of the new Records and Rebels exhibition at the V&A will be chairing this discussion, and the panel includes Jonathan Barnbrook, the designer behind the late David Bowie's Blackstar album artwork, and musician Beatie Wolfe.
When: Saturday 17 September, 1.30-2.30pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 4, Victoria and Albert museum (V&A), London SW7 2RL.
Info: Tickets are £10.75 in advance, and part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
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What: Is having dyslexia always a learning difficulty, or can it facilitate lateral and creative thinking? Design and architecture writer Grant Gibson chairs this fascinating discussion, which sits alongside Designjunction's current exhibition, Dyslexic Design, showcasing the work of dyslexic designers. Panelists include illustrator Kristjana S Williams, industrial designer Terence Woodgate, furniture designer Tom Raffield and writer Margaret Rooke.
When: Saturday 24 September, 5-6pm.
Where: The Gallery Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG.
Info: This event is free, and part of this year's Designjunction exhibition and fair. For more information, head here.
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What: Packaging is an incredibly important facet of any public-facing brand, whether it's luxury Fortnum and Mason's or mainstream McDonald's. Are we aware of its ability to influence our decisions? Come along to this Design Week hosted panel which will look at current trends and the future of packaging design, with speakers including key figures from Design Bridge, Pearlfisher and Bulletproof, and packaging specialist Daniel Mason who has worked on record sleeves for artists including Björk, Led Zeppelin and Aphex Twin.
When: Sunday 18 September, 1.30-2.30pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A museum.
Info: Tickets are £10.75 in advance, and part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
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What: Running a design studio might not just be about producing great work for clients. This panel, chaired by Design Week editor Tom Banks, will look at how you can extend your brand by doing new things, such as running events, or housing a gallery within a studio space. Panelists include NB Studio creative director Nick Finney and Amy Croft, the curator of Sto Werkstatt's in-house gallery.
When: Wednesday 21 September, 12-1pm.
Where: The Forum, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UX.
Info: This talk is part of trade show and exhibition 100%Design, which costs £15 for full entry to the show and talks programme. For more information on the talk, head here. For information on how to register for a 100%Design ticket, head here.
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What: Marina Willer became Pentagram London's first female partner in 2012, after her time as head creative director at Wolff Olins. In this masterclass, the graphic designer and filmmaker behind branding projects such as the Tate museum, Amnesty International and the Southbank Centre, will be speaking about her experiences as a woman working in a male-dominated industry, and sharing stories of her most famous projects.
When: Sunday 18 September, 3.30-5pm.
Where: The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, V&A museum.
Info: Tickets are £15, and the talk is part of LDF's Global Design Forum. For more information, head here.
A discussion between creative partnership Eva Kellenberger and Sebastian White, in conversation with Design Week.
Designer, Maker, User: A talk looking at the Design Museum's new permanent display, with panelists including Sebastian Conran.
A masterclass with Jonathan Barnbrook.
Made.com: Designing for Small, Urban Spaces: a discussion looking at the increasing population and lack of urban space, and the resulting effects on architecture and design.
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The Department for Health announced this week that the National Health Service (NHS) would be completely redesigning its public-facing website by the end of 2017.
The current nhs.uk (NHS choices) site is currently mainly a hub for researching ailments and symptoms but the government hopes to turn it into a more holistic supersite.
The new nhs.uk site will aim to bring all patient services together allowing them to book appointments, find a GP, access test results, order prescriptions and ask for medical advice all in one place.
It will also be taking into account patient data from “NHS-approved” health apps, the government department says, with the hope of providing more tailored services to patients.
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The new polymer £5 note entered circulation this week, with 440 million rolling out in an initial print run.
The redesigned note features Winston Churchill, and according to the Bank of England, is both waterproof and resistant to dirt.
It's also meant to last more than double the amount of time as a paper note, and contains features which make the note harder to counterfeit and easier to recognise for visually impaired people.
Alongside Churchill, a plastic £10 note featuring Jane Austin will arrive in summer 2017, and a £20 note featuring J.M.W Turner will start sweeping the nation in 2020.
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A week after rival Deliveroo unveiled an entirely new graphic identity, food delivery service Just Eat rolled out a rebrand.
The new branding sees a spectrum of colours added to the visual application of the brand, and the logo tweaked, with a new italicised logotype and the removal of Just Eat's signature cursor click icon perhaps now an outdated motif.
Alongside the visual look, which was designed by consultancy Venturethree, the brand also wants to change its attitude, with new online features that will enable it to communicate better with its audience.
For instance, a new chatbot feature compatible with Facebook Messenger means customers can receive advice on what restaurants or food to choose, based on previous orders.
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This week, car hire and taxi service Addison Lee looked to better align itself with customer service in its latest rebrand.
Ad agency Whistlejacket London worked on the project, and redesigned the logo from its previous monochrome, intertwined “AL” symbol to a more minimal, yellow “AL”.
The “AL” icon uses a serif typeface, while the Addison Lee logotype has been given a sans-serif.
The yellow aims to be a “shorthand for taxis”, explains Whistlejacket London's creative director Kathy Kielty, while the gap created between the “A” and “L” symbols indicates two sides of a road.
Alongside the visual changes, the brand hopes to reposition itself as being more customer-focused through new services such as free wifi, courier services and pet-friendly vehicles.
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Plumen's new 003 lightbulb was unveiled this week, after product design consultancy Hulger spent five years creating it.
The new light bulb aims to give “sustainable design sex appeal”, according to Nicolas Roope, creative director at Hulger, and allegedly gives off two forms of light a more useful, downward spotlight to illuminate worktops and dinner tables, and a more ambient golden glow for the surrounding environment.
The soft glow is achieved through a gold element in the centre of the light bulb, which actually makes people “look more beautiful”, according to Plumen.
At £150 a pop, it's not cheap but can last for 10,000 hours before it blows. You can find out more information here.
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Within the space of less than two weeks the political talk switched from Clinton having a possibly unbreakable grip on the Electoral College vote to how much Trump has gained on her. How did this happen? Why isn't the far more qualified candidate creaming an opponent so clearly unfit for presidency? What is it about Clinton that puts so many people off?![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FQ-QGO8el-mA&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but with human-generated noise on the rise, scientists are examining how bats and other animals might adapt to find their next meal. According to a new study, when noise masks the mating calls of the bat's prey, túngara frogs, the bat shifts to another sensory mode—echolocation.
Echolocation is a way of sensing objects and movement by scanning the environment with high frequency sounds and evaluating the reflections. Studying the ability or inability of animals to shift sensory modes could be important in understanding how to protect threatened or endangered species.
The work appears this week in the journal Science.
This video shows a fringe-lipped bat attacking a robotic frog with and without pieces of fish added as a reward. (Video by Barrett Klein and Andy Quitmeyer)
“If there's just one person talking and it's quiet, all we have to do is listen with our ears,” says Ryan. “But if there are more and more people talking, we have to be looking at them to figure out what each person is saying. So we have to recruit this other sensory channel we have, our eyes, to help us figure out what we're hearing.”
In this case, the bats are shifting from detecting one kind of sound—the low frequency mating calls produced by the frogs—to the high frequency sounds emitted by the bat to navigate and hunt with echolocation. Unfortunately for the frogs, when they produce mating calls, they're really sending two signals: the sound intended to attract females and the movement of their vocal sacs, which inflate quickly like a balloon.
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The researchers speculate that predators that can shift their sensory mode will do better in noisy environments, and this in turn might alter the long-term success of specific predator and prey species.
“Our study ties together behavior, sensory ecology and conservation,” says Dylan Gomes, the lead author who conducted the research during an internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. “As sources of anthropogenic noise continue to expand, animals will ultimately have to face noise in one way or another.”
Research into the effects of human-generated noise on animal behavior has primarily focused on birds and whales, says Gomes, who is now a Fulbright scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. The impact of noise on bats, however, is a relatively new field of study.
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Bat attacking the robotic frog setup. (Photo by Rachel Moon)
The team used two robotic frogs that precisely mimic the calls and vocal sac expansion of the túngara frog. The robofrogs were placed inside a flight cage with the fringe-lipped bat. One robofrog played the frog's distinct mating call, with the other playing the call and expanding its robotic vocal sac. When the researchers played a masking noise over the call, the hunting bat's echolocation activity increased and it more often attacked the frog emitting both signals than the frog emitting just mating calls. Without the masking sound, the bat attacked both frogs equally.
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The fringe-lipped bat foraging above the forest floor. (Photo by Alex Lang)
“We show how animals can adapt to increased noise levels by making use of their other senses, which has important implications for other species that try to find prey, avoid predators or attract mates in human-impacted environments,” says Wouter Halfwerk, a professor at VU University Amsterdam and a former postdoctoral researcher in Ryan's lab.
Halfwerk helped design the experiment and was Gomes' co-adviser. Smithsonian Tupper fellow Inga Geipel, who specializes in echolocation and studies how bats navigate and hunt in the rain, contributed her technical expertise to the research. The study was carried out under the guidance of STRI staff scientist Rachel Page, and Ryan, a long-time STRI research associate. Page worked previously as a graduate student in Ryan's lab.
Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
(SOURCE: UTNews)
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in partnership with parley and MOCA, aitken plans three temporary subaquatic sculptures to form a dialogue between marine conservation and art.
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William Kentridge comes to the Whitechapel, Zaha Hadid's successor speaks and we rule on a cultural showdown between London and Paris all in your weekly dispatch
William Kentridge: Thick Time
Time and memory, history and politics are the stuff of the acclaimed South African animator's recent works.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September-15 January.
William Kentridge comes to the Whitechapel, Zaha Hadid's successor speaks and we rule on a cultural showdown between London and Paris all in your weekly dispatch
William Kentridge: Thick Time
Time and memory, history and politics are the stuff of the acclaimed South African animator's recent works.
• Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September-15 January.
Frith Street Gallery, London
The former Turner prize nominee's portrait of the painter toys with truth and artifice as cleverly as her first foray into theatre with actor Stephen Dillane
Sitting in his Los Angeles studio, David Hockney looks at the wall and smokes. For the last couple of years, Tacita Dean has also been living in LA, where she got to know the painter, whose portrait of Dean's son Rufus hangs in the blurry distance of Dean's filmed portrait of Hockney. Rufus, in waistcoat and tie, notebook and pencil in hand, gives Hockney a serious painted stare.
Contemplating something out of shot, smoking in his comfy armchair, Hockney is surrounded by the portraits that currently fill the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy in London. Unless he is acting the role of spectator or sitter, or the painter thinking, as he smokes and smokes, lighting up and stubbing out, rolling his tongue around his mouth Hockney has stopped thinking about the camera.
Related: Cloudy ... with a chance of artworks
Continue reading...The artist's renowned 1998 installation My Bed which she always builds herself is about to go on show at Tate Liverpool
Tracey Emin throws her knickers on to the bed. She's not quite satisfied, so she retrieves them and has another go. It takes five increasingly athletic throws and a lot of laughing until the pale blue underwear is in just the right state of casual abandon. For this is no ordinary bed. It is THE bed.
The bed that Count Christian Duerckheim bought for £2,546,500 from Christies in 2014 and has loaned to the Tate. The bed that has become the most enduring icon of 1990s British art, now that Damien Hirst's poorly preserved shark looks like a shrivelled nautical antiquity. My Bed, as Emin's 1998 readymade is titled, is set to go on display at Tate Liverpool, bringing its freight of vodka bottles, used tissues and fag butts to the north-west for the first time, and initiating a unique artistic ritual.
Related: Does Tracey Emin's bed still have the power to shock?
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skyscrapers seem to be flattened from their original form and propped up on metal and wooden frames.
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This effervescent book contains the latest thinking on the African origins of Homo sapiens and asks what our genes can really tell us
In trying to categorise a new arrival in the film Mean Girls one character asks: “if you're from Africa, how come you're white?” The mean girl cannot have been paying attention in class, because, as Adam Rutherford reminds us so elegantly in his latest book, we are all African originally. The only homo sapiens on the planet 100,000 years ago were in Africa.
The mean girl can be forgiven her ignorance, since the way many of us (lay people and professionals alike) have been taught about our origins is flawed. The neat family trees and branch lines charting the steady progress of evolution, and those ubiquitous illustrations of the ascent of humans, in which we evolve step by step from bent-over apes to straight-backed homo sapiens, are not just simplistic, they are a profound misshaping of the truth.
Rutherford argues that rather than halting the advance of gene science, we all need to have our genomes sequenced
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The September sun setting over London in the distance as seen from Purfleet on Thames
Environmental groups criticise plan that will allow hunters to shoot up to 47 of an estimated 68 wolves living in wilderness
Norway is planning to cull more than two-thirds of its remaining wolves in a step that environmental groups say will be disastrous for the dwindling members of the species in the wild.
There are estimated to be about 68 wolves remaining in the wilderness areas of Norway, concentrated in the south-east of the country, but under controversial plans approved on Friday as many as 47 of these will be shot.
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People are playing Pokemon Go while behind the wheel — and then tweeting about it. And causing crashes. Immersive games like this can be even more dangerous than texting, researchers say.
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"We thought you were pulling the udder one when we herd the moos," Google said. But it's true — automatic identity protection kept this passing animal incowgnito.
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Sellers on Amazon find their products being resold on eBay without permission for a markup, with middlemen capitalizing on the efficiency of online shopping to make an extra buck.
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The surprising history of electronic toll collection can be traced back to the theremin, and a Russian spy program. It's still in use, even as toll booths are being eliminated.
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Chairman Elliot Kaye said consumers should "take advantage of this recall right away" because the phone represents such a "serious fire hazard."
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Natalie Hampton knows what it's like to have no one to sit with during school lunch. So she created Sit With Us, an app that helps kids find friendly harbors in the crowd.
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The impersonation came about after police in Washington state couldn't identify a suspect who repeatedly sent threatening emails to a high school in the Seattle area.
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Flying presidential candidates in California, a koala escapes an Australian flood, Paralympic events in Rio de Janeiro, Mexico's Independence Day, Eid al-Adha observations in Moscow, a crocodile attack in Kenya, and much more.
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For months, the refugee policy rift between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her nominal political ally Horst Seehofer, the powerful governor of Bavaria, has been widening. In an interview with SPIEGEL, Seehofer says the rift could worsen if Merkel doesn't agree to a hard ceiling on immigration. ![]("https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/172911099/m%3D900/75fe8b48163adc0b9ac3177b50e2c6f8")
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The aim is to make clinical trial data available to volunteers and scientists, even if a drug or therapy being tested turns out to be a failure. That could help identify serious side effects.
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People are playing Pokemon Go while behind the wheel — and then tweeting about it. And causing crashes. Immersive games like this can be even more dangerous than texting, researchers say.
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From old railway tracks repurposed as routes for fibre-optic cables to cold war bunkers retrofitted to store data, Hu shows that the intangible cloud has a solid infrastructure
The cloud is “a system of networks that pools computing power”. You may think of it as a mute and ethereal concept but for Tung-Hui Hu it is “both an idea and a physical and material object”. His slim yet wide-ranging study attempts to reify and historicise a concept that has “become a potent metaphor for the way contemporary society organizes and understands itself”. The idea dates back to a 1922 design for predicting weather using a network of human “computers”, or mathematicians, connected via telegraph. From the 19th-century train tracks repurposed as routes for fibre-optic cables and the cold war bunkers retrofitted to store data, Hu shows that the intangible cloud has a solid and polluting infrastructure. He also reveals the human costs, such as the poorly paid foreign workers screening content for Silicon Valley companies, and explores the monetisation of the user: “the cloud is a subtle weapon that translates the body into usable information.” Witty, sharp and theoretically aware, Hu deconstructs this much-discussed but poorly understood “cultural fantasy”.
• A Prehistory of the Cloud is published by MIT
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The Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames in West London, connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south bank. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an OrdishLefeuvre system modified cable-stayed bridge, it proved to be structurally unsound, so between 1884 and 1887 Sir Joseph Bazalgette incorporated some of the design elements of a suspension bridge. In 1973 the Greater London Council added two concrete piers, which transformed the central span into a simple beam bridge. As a result, today the bridge is an unusual hybrid of three different design styles. It is an English Heritage Grade II* listed building.
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