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......»»
How to make a sound wave spin? Hit it with a pipe
Spinning sound waves open up new possibilities for acoustic traps and tricks. Enlarge (credit: Wikipedia) It's a question I'm sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, general.....»»
Canberra well placed to play a role in global asteroid detection
NASA's Near-Earth Object Observation Program painstakingly documents all asteroid sightings that could pose a potential threat to our planet. However, geographical constraints mean that somewhere between 2% and 7% of asteroids are not detected......»»
Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way For Groundbreaking Map of World Under Earth Surface
An anonymous reader writes: An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology -- a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security. University of Birmingham researchers from.....»»
Meteorite auction included one very surprising item
Christie’s has auctioned off lots of meteorites over the last few weeks, but it saved the most unusual object in its collection till last......»»
OVHcloud is launching an object storage tool
Move over AWS: OVHcloud has a plan to offer high performance object storage......»»
Hundreds of Salesforce Employees Object To NFT Plans
Hundreds of Salesforce employees globally are rebelling against plans by the U.S. enterprise software giant to enter the non-fungible token (NFT) market, according to internal documents seen by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. From a report: Salesforc.....»»
How world"s most precise clock could transform fundamental physics
Einstein's theory of general relativity holds that a massive body like Earth curves space-time, causing time to slow as you approach the object—so a person on top of a mountain ages a tiny bit faster than someone at sea level......»»
Industry watch: Intel"s acquisition of Tower heating up semiconductor race
The Israeli government will not object to Intel's plan to purchase Israel-based Tower Semiconductor for US$5.4 billion, as this is an expansion of Intel's investment in Israel. If we consider issues such as car connectivity and information security,.....»»
Magecart skimmed credit card info and created multiple backdoors in hundreds of e-commerce sites
Security researchers at Sansec say that they discovered that more than 500 online stores running the Magento 1 e-commerce platform were compromised in January. The hackers used a combination of SQL injection (SQLi) and PHP Object Injection (POI) to t.....»»
Astronomers now say the rocket about to strike the Moon is not a Falcon 9
It's probable that the impact object comes from a Chinese rocket launched in 2014. Enlarge / The Moon is safe from Falcon 9 rockets. (credit: NASA) About three weeks ago Ars Technica first reported that astronomers were tracki.....»»
The Greatest Physics Demo of All Time Happened on the Moon
This true story of a hammer, a feather, the Apollo 15 mission, and the answers to humanity's oldest questions about how stuff falls. From a report: Does a falling object move at a constant speed, or does it speed up? If you drop a heavy object and a.....»»
Scientists create strange quantum "domain walls" in laboratory
University of Chicago scientists have been able to create a new kind of quantum object at will in the laboratory: "domain walls.".....»»
Astronomers Find First Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way
Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Strange object giving off bursts of energy unlike anything known
Astronomers have discovered a strange object giving off regular bursts of energy, unlike anything seen before......»»
Object found in the Milky Way "unlike anything astronomers have seen"
Australian researchers have discovered a strange spinning object in the Milky Way they say is unlike anything astronomers have ever seen......»»
5 reasons I love the Leica M11 camera and 5 reasons I don’t
The Leica M11 is both an incredibly capable camera and a beautiful object of desire, with a luxury-grade price tag. Here's what I love and what I dislike......»»
Everyday Objects Can Run Artificial Intelligence Software
Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: Imagine using any object around you—a frying pan, a glass paperweight—as the central processor in a neural network, a type of artificial intelligence that loosely mimics the brain to p.....»»
Unknown Space Object Beaming Out Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes Remains a Mystery
While mapping radio waves across the universe, astronomers happened upon a celestial object releasing giant bursts of energy -- and it's unlike anything they've ever seen before. From a report: The spinning space object, spotted in March 2018, beamed.....»»
If launched by 2028, a spacecraft could catch up with "Oumuamua in 26 years
In October 2017, the interstellar object 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system, leaving many questions in its wake. Not only was it the first object of its kind ever observed, but the limited data astronomers obtained as it shot out of our solar.....»»