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Set to open in Spring 2021 ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan is a sight to behold. These recent aerial photos provided by The Sankei News shows that it is nearing completion and walled off from the other sections of the park to provide maximum immersion. Guests enter the land using a warp pipe located at an entrance plaza, complete with themed lamp posts and a power star in the pavement.
Always wanted a tiny home that can be setup anywhere in the world? Introducing The Space by Ecocapsule, and just like its predecessor, this solar-powered living space retains its capsule shape. Measuring 15′ x 7.2′ and spanning 88-square-feet, it boasts a fiberglass shell that covers a steel frame and insulated with polyurethane foam. To get inside, simply slide the small front door open.
The eleventh installment of Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), developed by Asobo Studio, is set to be the most realistic yet. This game simulates the entire Earth using textures and topographical data pulled directly from Bing Maps. Players will find photorealistic 3D representations of the world’s features, like terrain, trees, grass, buildings, and water. These textures will be generated using Microsoft Azure technology.
Bioluminescence occurs widely among animals in the open sea, including fish, jellyfish, crustaceans, and even in various terrestrial invertebrates, like insects. Did you know that nearly 80% of deep-sea animals produce light in the blue and green spectrum? However, the most frequently encountered bioluminescent organisms are dinoflagellates present in the surface layers of the sea, and these were spotted on an Acapulco beach in Mexico for the first time in over 60-years.
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Antarctica may be a cold, desolate place right now, but in ancient times, the southernmost point of the Earth was once home to many swampy rainforests that were teeming with life. This was determined by the sediment core retrieved by scientists working aboard the research icebreaker RV Polarstern in the Amundsen Sea near the Pine Island Glacier, which is dated to about 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs roamed the lands.