Category: Emerging Tech

Most people treat White Elephant gift exchanges as an excuse to regift unopened presents and offload unwanted junk, but they’re a lot more fun if you put in the extra effort to cause trouble. Trust us — Digital Trends’ HR department actually forced us to discontinue our annual white elephant exchange because it got too wild a few years ago. So, to help… Continue reading "Funny White Elephant Gift Ideas Guaranteed to Spice Up A Holiday Party"

Could technology first used by NASA to grow plants on other planets also help farmers improve crop yield here on Earth? According to researchers at the U.K.’s John Innes Center and Australia’s University of Queensland the answer is “affirmative.” They are employing some of the speed breeding techniques pioneered by the U.S. aerospace program to breed more disease resistant, climate… Continue reading "How NASA’s ‘Space Wheat’ is Helping Earthbound Farmers Grow Crops"

After years of consideration, NASA has finally chosen the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The location is known as Jezero Crater, and on several occasions in the dim and distant past water is believed to have flowed into it before draining away. As a result, scientists believe that “microbial life could have lived in Jezero during one… Continue reading "NASA Selects the All-important Landing Site for Its Mars 2020 Mission"

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a strange galaxy next door to the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy, named Antlia 2, is dark and dim and gives out much less light than expected, hence being described as “ghostly.” Dwarf galaxies were some of the earliest galaxies to form after the big bang, and because they… Continue reading "Ghostly Galaxy Discovered Lurking on the Edge of the Milky Way"

China’s “artificial sun” has reached a temperature of 180 million ºF with a heating power of 10 megawatts, according to scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics, where the experiment was conducted. That’s six times hotter than the center of the sun. The device, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), is built to harness the energy… Continue reading "China’s “Artificial sun” Reaches Temperature 6 Times Hotter Than the Sun"