Great Barrier Reef suffers 89% collapse in new coral after bleaching events
Scientists have measured how many adult corals survived along the length of the world’s largest reef system and how many new corals they produced in 2018 in the aftermath of severe heat stress and coral mortality. The results, published in Nature, show not only a dramatic reduction in new coral recruitment compared with historic levels, but also a change in the types of coral species produced.
Lisa Cox | The Guardian
South Korea first to roll out 5G services, beating U.S. and China
South Korea will become the first country to commercially launch fifth-generation (5G) services on Friday as it rolls out the latest wireless technology with Samsung Electronics’ new 5G-enabled smartphone Galaxy S10. The technology can offer 20-times faster data speeds than 4G long-term evolution (LTE) networks.
Ju-min Park | Reuters
NASA Says Debris From India’s Antisatellite Test Puts Space Station at Risk
NASA identified 400 pieces of orbital debris from the test, including about 60 trackable pieces at least 10 centimeters in size. Two dozen pieces were identified above the highest point of the International Space Station’s orbit.
Kai Schultz | The New York Times
Coming July 2019 - Space Settlements By Fred Scharmen
In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists—along with architects, urban planners, and artists—to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people.
Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.
Canada warming at twice the global rate, leaked report finds
Canada is, on average, experiencing warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with Northern Canada heating up at almost three times the global average, according to a new government report.
CBC News
Do It Yourself! A New Film on the Life and Work of Donna Haraway
In ‘Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival’, the feminist theorist discusses ‘living well and giving heart’
Hestia Peppe | Frieze
'We Can't Trust the Permafrost Anymore': Doomsday Vault at Risk in Norway
Just over a decade after it first opened, the world's "doomsday vault" of seeds is imperiled by climate change as the polar region where it's located warms faster than any other area on the planet.
Eoin Higgins | Common Dreams
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
“We can trace our origins back to that event,” DePalma said. “To actually be there at this site, to see it, to be connected to that day, is a special thing. This is the last day of the Cretaceous. When you go one layer up—the very next day—that’s the Paleocene, that’s the age of mammals, that’s our age.”
Douglas Preston | The New Yorker
Handle Robot Reimagined for Logistics
Handle is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets.
via Boston Dynamics YouTube
GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space
GITAI announced a joint research agreement with JAXA (the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) to see what it takes for robots to be useful in orbit, with the goal of substantially reducing the amount of money spent sending food and air up to humans on the International Space Station.
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
The Worst Disease Ever Recorded
Never before in recorded history has a single disease burned down so much of the tree of life. New estimates show that the doomsday fungus called Bd has caused the decline of over 500 species and the extinction of at least 90.
Ed Yong | The Atlantic
Don’t Call April Greiman the “Queen of New Wave”
“I felt like as soon as you’ve given it a name, it’s dead.” A longform interview with one of the most divisive figures in graphic design.
Meg Miller | AIGA Eye on Design
“Particle robot” works as a cluster of simple units
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving en masse to transport objects.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office
No Barcode
The recently revived blog of designer Javier Garcia, described by him as follows:
"No Barcode is a blog about the modern past, it’s a collection of found illustration and design that I want to share so it doesn’t just exist in a drawer."
Marvin Visions Typeface
Marvin Visions is a modern and consistent reinterpretation of Marvin, a typeface originally designed by Michael Chave in 1969 and published by Face Photosetting.
It has been revived and expanded by Mathieu Triay for the identity of Visions, a new science fiction magazine.
Apollo 11 Press Kits - The David Meerman Scott Collection
A digitized collection of the press kits that were prepared by public relations staff at the major contractors for NASA's Apollo 11 mission.
The New Space Age: Experts Ponder the Future of Cosmic Exploration
This Pi Day (Thursday, March 14), scientists, astronauts, artists, engineers and designers gathered to discuss our future in space as we near the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. The event, called "Beyond the Cradle 2019: Envisioning a New Space Age," hosted speakers ranging from former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin to Marc Okrand, a linguist who invented the Klingon language, and even glass artist John Simpson.
Chelsea Gohd | Space.com
A surprising number of people trust AI to make better policy decisions than politicians
A new survey on Europeans’ attitudes towards technology found that a quarter of people would prefer it if policy decisions were made by artificial intelligence instead of politicians.
Jackie Bischof | Quartz