June 2023
Astronomy ought to, in precept, be a welcoming area for blind researchers. However throughout the board, science is stuffed with charts, graphs, databases, and pictures which might be designed to be seen.
So researcher Sarah Kane, who’s legally blind, was thrilled three years in the past when she encountered a expertise often known as sonification, designed to rework info into sound. Since then she’s been working with a challenge known as Astronify, which presents astronomical info in audio type.Â
For hundreds of thousands of blind and visually impaired individuals, sonification may very well be transformative—opening entry to training, to as soon as unimaginable careers, and even to the secrets and techniques of the universe. Learn the complete story.
—Corey S. Powell
We will nonetheless have good issues
A spot for consolation, enjoyable and distraction to brighten up your day. (Bought any concepts? Drop me a line or tweet ’em at me.)
+ It’s time to get into steel detecting (no actually, it’s!)
+ In the meantime, over on Mars…
+ A pair within the UK determined to get married on a shifting practice, as a result of why not?
+ Even large manta rays want a bit TLC each every so often.
