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Weird Neptune-like exoplanet may have water clouds

A Neptune-like planet that’s relatively close to Earth may sport a watery surprise. The exoplanet, called TOI-1231 b, might have clouds of water high in its atmosphere, but the observations are so preliminary that it’s hard to say for sure. “Future observations of this new planet will let us determine just how common (or rare) it is for water clouds to form around these temperate worlds,” Jennifer Burt, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and lead author of the new research, said in a statement from the University of New Mexico, which was also involved in the…

London startup Simplestream bags £1M to help broadcasters make a switch to digital content

Simplestream, a London-based SaaS company, provides multi-platform live-streaming and video-on-demand services to broadcast and media companies. In a recent development, the company announced that it has secured a £1 million loan from the alternative lender BOOST&Co to build on a strong period of growth. Eyes grow its team BOOST&Co is a leading provider of growth capital for innovative, fast-growing UK SMEs. The independent asset manager offers loans ranging from £2 million to £10 million to companies across a wide range of sectors. However, these companies should have a strong track record in technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT). It has funded…

Virgin Galactic can fly passengers to suborbital space, FAA says

Key Points Virgin Galactic announced Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration granted the company the license it needs to fly passengers on future spaceflights. “The commercial license that we have had in place since 2016 remains in place, but is now cleared to allow us to carry commercial passengers when we’re ready to do so,” Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier told CNBC. The company cleared the final two FAA milestones of that program with its spaceflight test last month. Virgin Galactic is one step closer to becoming a fully fledged spaceline. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has updated Virgin Galactic’s…

Archaeologists Make Dramatic Discovery: A Prehistoric Human Type Previously Unknown to Science

Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region, which resembles Pre-Neanderthal populations in Europe, challenges the prevailing hypothesis that Neanderthals originated from Europe, suggesting that at least some of the Neanderthals’ ancestors actually came from the Levant. The new finding suggests that two types of Homo groups lived side by side in the Levant for more than 100,000 years (200-100,000 years ago), sharing knowledge and tool technologies: the Nesher Ramla people who lived in the region from around 400,000 years ago, and the Homo sapiens who arrived later, some 200,000 years ago. The…

Flash Forest, a startup aims to use drones to plant a billion trees by 2028

This is how a fleet of drones are planting almost 20,000 seed pods every day. Since man alone cannot change the consequences of climate change, he will have to rely on technology to try to alleviate damage that already seems inevitable, and now they will rely on a fleet of drones that they are going to plant. more than 1 billion trees in just eight years. Now Toronto-based startup Flash Forest is going to use drones to plant trees 10 times faster than workers with the goal of planting 1 billion trees by 2028. Flash Forest combines the use of…