How to thermally cloak an object
Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat that we can feel is visible, like the heat of a traveler in an airport with a fever or the cold of a leaky window or door in the winter......»»
Interactive Fiction Compiler "Inform 7" Is Now Open Source
New submitter Mononymous writes: Created by Graham Nelson, Inform 7 compiles a powerful object-oriented language resembling English into a working text adventure. Friendly GUIs for various platforms have been open source for many years, but the core.....»»
Ultra-Rare Black Hole Ancestor Detected at the Dawn of the Universe
"Astronomers have discovered a dusty, red object 13 billion light-years from Earth that may be the earliest known ancestor of a supermassive black hole," reports Live Science: The ancient object shows characteristics that fall between dusty, star-fo.....»»
How to draw in Microsoft Word
Use your artistic skills to sketch or draw a line, shape, or object. We’ll show you how to draw in Word using various tools to fit your document or project......»»
Modeling Earth"s magnetosphere in the laboratory
A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is surrounded by a large magnetosphere that extends.....»»
AI-Powered Artificial Fingertip Gives Robots a Nearly Humanlike Touch
Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares this article from Science magazine: Robots can be programmed to lift a car and even help perform some surgeries, but when it comes to picking up an object they have not touched before, such as an egg, they often f.....»»
This galaxy is a mind-bending 13.5 billion light-years away
An international team of astronomers has identified the most distant astronomical object ever observed: A galaxy 13.5 billion light-years away,.....»»
Astronomers Discover Farthest Object In the Known Universe
A possible galaxy that exists some 13.5 billion light-years from Earth has broken the record for farthest astronomical object ever seen. Live Science reports: That age places this collection of stars, now dubbed HD1, between a time of total darkness.....»»
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object On Earth, Scientists Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: An object from another star system crashed into Earth in 2014, the United States Space Command (USSC) confirmed in a newly-released memo. The meteor ignited in a fireball in the skies near Papua N.....»»
Scientists have spotted the farthest galaxy ever
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy......»»
We’ve been watching a failed star turn into a giant planet
Gas giants can form far from their stars without a rocky intermediate stage. Enlarge / Image of the AB Aurigae system, with details of the object shown at the right. (credit: NASA, ESA, Thayne Currie) On some levels, forming s.....»»
Scientists bioprint tissue-like constructs capable of controlled, complex shape change
Where standard 3D printing uses a digital blueprint to manufacture an object out of materials like plastic or resin, 3D bioprinting manufactures biological parts and tissues out of living cells, or bioinks. A fourth dimension—shape transformation o.....»»
Astronomers spot a vast, mysterious circle in space
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle......»»
Photonic technology enables real-time calculation of radio signal correlation
Researchers have developed a new analog photonic correlator that can be used to locate an object transmitting a radio signal. Because the new correlator is faster than other methods and works with a wide range of radio frequency signals, it could be.....»»
A baby star’s energetic outburst captured by Hubble
This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the dramatic and energetic jets given off by a young star, called a Herbig-Haro object......»»
Samsung’s Object Eraser mode takes on Google’s Magic Eraser
Samsung has a hidden challenger to Google's Magic Eraser mode on the Galaxy S22 UItra. It's called Object Eraser, and this is how you use it......»»
Take a look at Volkswagen’s iconic minibus redesigned as an adorable EV
If an object can encapsulate both the retro past and the high-tech present, this one does.At a Wednesday streaming event with actor Ewan McGregor, Volkswagen debuted an electric redesign of its groovy mid-centruy T1 Microbus, now called the ID. Buzz......»»
Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin"s Internet Blockade
Russians are rapidly turning to internet services that cloak their location to help bypass restrictions on accessing foreign social media and news sites. From a report: Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage fr.....»»
Xbox Cloud Gaming gets mouse and keyboard support
The object of Xbox Cloud Gaming is to make Xbox games more accessible by bringing them to a wider variety of devices. Asobo Studio confirmed mouse and keyboard support is coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming in an interview last week. There is no firm date on.....»»
The unfolding story of a kilonova told in X-rays
Astronomers may have detected a "sonic boom" from a powerful blast known as a kilonova. This event was seen in GW170817, a merger of two neutron stars and the first object detected in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light......»»
‘Closest black hole’ isn’t actually a black hole, but a stellar vampire
In 2020, astronomers announced they had found the closest black hole ever. But new research suggests that the object in question in not actually a black hole......»»