ESO/M. Kornmesser
Meeting Proxima b
Our lonely patch of the sky just got a little less lonely with the identification of a rocky, Earth-sized planet orbiting the nearest star outside our own solar system. In the biggest space news of the week, or maybe the year, researchers announced that they had positively identified a planet about 1.3 times the size of Earth orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri 4.2 light years away. This is an artist's idea of what the surface of Proxima b might look like.
Obama Gets Natural
In his first foray into virtual reality, President Obama chats with Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don Neubacher for a newly-released video that was filmed in June. You can now take a virtual reality tour of Yosemite narrated by President Obama. The film meanders through forests, rivers and mountains, highlighting El Capitan, the Merced River, Yosemite Falls and the sequoias of Mariposa Grove.
Photo by JJ Sulin
Trading Faces
Patrick Hardison’s face transplant surgery was the most extensive of the dozens attempted worldwide during the past decade. Nearly a year after his transplant, Hardison is still on a diet of immunosuppressant drugs to stop his body from rejecting the new face. He has yet to suffer a rejection—a first in this pioneering field.
Lori Sanders
The Octobot
Soft robots is the field of squishier machines, and this week a team of Harvard University researchers announced its latest floppy creation: an autonomous, 3D printed octopus-shaped robot nicknamed “octobot.” The fuel, circuits, and motors are all printed within the octobot’s body. Right now, the autonomy consists of the machine deciding when to flex its little robot limbs.
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