If scientists can figure out where spacetime comes from, they may be able to achieve one of the biggest goals in physics—a theory of everything.
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Category Archives: Reviews
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – January 21
Science: Cloning Saves An Endangered Species And Exoplanet ‘Super-Earths’
On this week’s show: How cloning can introduce diversity into an endangered species, and ramping up the pressure on iron to see how it might behave in the cores of rocky exoplanets.
First up this week, News Intern Rachel Fritts talks with host Sarah Crespi about cloning a frozen ferret to save an endangered species.
Also this week, Rick Kraus, a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, talks about how his group used a powerful laser to compress iron to pressures similar to those found in the cores of some rocky exoplanets. If these super-Earths’ cores are like our Earth’s, they may have a protective magnetosphere that increases their chances of hosting life.
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – January 15
New Books: ‘Literature For A Changing Planet’ By Martin Puchner (2022)
Front Covers: Nature Magazine – January 13
Preview: Times Literary Supplement – January 14
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – January 8
Science In 2022: Covid Vaccines, Multiple Moon Missions & Biodiversity
In this episode, Nature reporter Davide Castelvecchi joins us to talk about the big science events to look out for in 2022. We’ll hear about vaccines, multiple Moon missions, the push to save biodiversity, and more.
Cities: Dubai’s Radical 2040 Urban Master Plan (Video)
The Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan maps out a comprehensive plan for a sustainable urban development in Dubai. It focuses on enhancing people’s happiness and quality of life and reinforcing Dubai as a global destination for citizens, residents and visitors over the next 20 years.
The plan has a strategic structural layout, integrating all urban development master plans in the emirate and aligned it with Dubai’s strategic economic priorities and the needs of the future.
Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan is the seventh development plan for the emirate since 1960. Between 1960 and 2020, the population of Dubai has multiplied 80 times from 40,000 in 1960 to 3.3 million while the urban and built area of the emirate increased 170-fold from 3.2 square km.
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