Rubin Observatory"s 3.5-meter secondary mirror installed
Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 3.5-meter secondary mirror has been installed on the Simonyi Survey Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile. The glass mirror—made by Corning Advanced Optics and polished by L3Harris Technologies—is the first permanent com.....»»
Researchers produce first macromolecular model of plant secondary cell wall
A multidisciplinary approach has enabled researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to quantitatively define the relative positioning and arrangement of the polymers in Populus wood and to cre.....»»
Baracoda shows off first smart mirror for mental wellness at CES 2024
The BMind smart mirror is designed to improve your mental health without an intrusive smartphone app, and it walked away with a 2024 CES Innovation Award......»»
This Philips Hue TV smart lights alternative is on sale
Create a cool and playful ambiance with any television in your home with the Nano 4D Screen Mirror and Lightstrip Kit......»»
5 best anthology TV series you should watch right now
From genre-defining classics like The Twilight Zone to modern mind-benders like Black Mirror, these are the best anthology TV series worth watching today......»»
NASA/JAXA XRISM mission reveals its first look at X-ray cosmos
The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has released a first look at the unprecedented data it will collect when science operations begin later this year......»»
Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion
There is a bit of irony for those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere. Enlarge / Sol, imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. (credit: NASA) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkne.....»»
How a small town in Japan fiercely defends its dark skies
Light pollution ruins dark skies. It's a scourge that ground-based observatories have to deal with in one form or another. Scientists used a small observatory in Japan to measure what changed when a nearby town improved its lighting practices. They a.....»»
First release of the largest extragalactic HI catalog
The FAST All Sky HI survey (FASHI) was designed to cover the entire sky observable by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), spanning approximately 22,000 square degrees of declination between -14 deg and +66 deg, and in th.....»»
Successful test paves the way for magnet production at CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) needs specific types of magnets to tightly control the beams of particles at its collision points. Called final-focusing quadrupoles, these magnets are installed in the LHC's interaction regions around the experiments......»»
8 best Netflix TV shows of 2023, ranked
The best Netflix TV shows of 2023 include The Fall of the House of Usher, Black Mirror, a surprise action thriller, an animated series, and more......»»
Cummins to pay record $1.675B penalty over engine emission defeat devices in Ram trucks
Cummins allegedly installed defeat devices on 630,000 2013-19 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup truck engines and undisclosed auxiliary emission control devices on 330,000 2019-23 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup truck engines......»»
Microplastic-associated pathogens in aquatic environments: A hidden health risk
Microplastics, which are minute plastic particles under 5mm in size, are becoming ever more ubiquitous in marine and freshwater ecosystems around the globe. These particles, derived from primary and secondary sources, such as industrial raw material.....»»
New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail
While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is bringing you a holiday chicken. The so-called Running Chicken Nebula, home to young stars in the maki.....»»
FAST detects three new pulsars in an old globular cluster
Using China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered three new pulsars in an old Galactic globular cluster known as Messier 15. Two of them turned out to be long-period pulsars, while the remaining o.....»»
Apple releases updates for iOS 16.7.4 and iPadOS 16.7.4
Apple has shipped updates for iOS 16.7.4 and iPadOS 16.7.4, updates that can be installed on iPhones and iPads not running the latest operating system versions.Arriving at the same time as the iOS 17.2.1 incremental update, Apple has introduced simil.....»»
Hurricane Larry dumped 100,000 microplastics per sq. meter on Newfoundland each day
It's another sign of how plasticized our environment has become. Enlarge (credit: J Marshall/NASA/ESA/T. Pesquet/Alamy) As Hurricane Larry curved north in the Atlantic in 2021, sparing the eastern seaboard of the United.....»»
First segments of the world"s largest telescope mirror shipped to Chile
The construction of the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ESO's ELT) has reached an important milestone with the delivery to ESO and shipment to Chile of the first 18 segments of the telescope's main mirror (M1). Once they ar.....»»
Plant metabolism proves more complicated than previously understood
Plants have evolved fiendishly complicated metabolic networks. For years, scientists focused on how plants make secondary metabolites, the compounds that plants produce to enhance their defense and survival mechanisms......»»
Scientists are recommending IceCube should be eight times bigger
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, is one of the most ambitious neutrino observatories in the world. Behind this observatory is t.....»»
Paying people to replant tropical forests and letting them harvest the timber can pay off
Tropical forest landscapes are home to millions of Indigenous peoples and small-scale farmers. Just about every square meter of land is spoken for, even if claims are not formally recognized by governments......»»