Tag: Detect

If alien terraforming emits greenhouse gases, our telescopes could detect it

If aliens wrap their planets in potent greenhouse gases like we do, we’d be able to tell. That’s according to a recent thought experiment in which scientists identified five “artificial” greenhouse gases that, if abundant enough, can be spotted in the atmospheres of certain exoplanets using existing technology, including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). […]

State to receive $19M to detect cancer-causing chemicals in water

May 23—New Mexico will get about $19 million in federal infrastructure money to expand efforts to detect PFAS in the water systems of the state’s smaller and disadvantaged communities. The grant money will be made available to 500 communities to test their public water systems for PFAS and other emerging toxic chemicals that pose a […]

Scientists Detect “Anomaly” Underground Near Great Pyramid

Subterranean Stash The pyramids at Giza continue to yield ancient secrets. But this time, they come not from those towering wonders up above, but what’s being described as an “anomaly” interred in the desert sands below. Using ground penetrating radar in combination with a technique known as electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), a team of researchers […]

Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere – a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they finally seem to have located one. But this hellish planet – apparently with a surface of molten rock – offers no […]