Why the floppy disk just won’t die
A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies. Enlarge / Photo taken in Florence, Italy (credit: Daniele Ciabatti/EyeEm via Getty) When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy d.....»»
A surprise chemical find by ALMA may help detect and confirm protoplanets
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the protoplanetary disk around a young star have discovered the most compelling chemical evidence to date of the formation of protoplanets. The discovery will provide a.....»»
Using macOS Disk Utility: How to repair Fusion Drives, and using command-line utilities
There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool.In the previous three installments of this series, we looked in-depth at how to use the macOS D.....»»
Flaring star could be down to young planet"s disk inferno
The mystery of a stellar flare a trillion times more powerful than the largest of solar flares may have been solved by a team of scientists who believe a massive young planet is burning up in a superheated soup of raw material swirling around it......»»
Image: Hubble observes jellyfish galaxy JO206
The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing a colorful star-forming disk surrounded by a pale, luminous cloud of dust. A handful of foreground bright stars with crisscross diffraction spike.....»»
Researchers solve colorful Kuiper Belt puzzle
The Kuiper Belt is a massive disk of icy bodies, including Pluto, that is located just outside of Neptune's orbit in our solar system. Objects observed in the Kuiper Belt exhibit a more diversified color range than any other solar system population,.....»»
A closer look at galaxy M64"s outer disk shows that it came from a smaller dwarf galaxy
An international team of astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists, has found evidence of galaxy M64's outer disk originating from a smaller, nearby, dwarf galaxy. The team has written a paper describing their findings that has been accepted for.....»»
Getting started with macOS Disk Utility: Resizing, snapshots, and journaling
There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use them.In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we looked a.....»»
How to back up your Mac"s Contacts in macOS
The Mac's Contacts app is incredibly useful for storing personal and work contact info. Here's how to back up your Contacts database.Contacts in macOSmacOS's Contacts app lives in the /Applications folder at the root of your Startup Disk. When you ad.....»»
Accretion disk around black holes recreated in the lab
Imperial College researchers have created a spinning disk of plasma in a lab, mimicking disks found around black holes and forming stars......»»
Getting started with macOS Disk Utility: RAID, images, and repairs
Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options.Use Disk Utility to keep your Mac drives in line. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics o.....»»
Getting started with macOS Disk Utility: The basics
Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it.Disk Utility provides various tasks such as formatting storage devices, mounting and unmounting volumes, creating disk images, and c.....»»
Hubble follows shadow play around planet-forming disk
The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope......»»
HDDs typically failed in under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives
Seagate still stands out. Enlarge (credit: Getty) We recently covered a study by Secure Data Recovery, an HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company, of 2,007 defective hard disk drives it received. It found the average t.....»»
Seagate violated export ban by shipping 7 million disk drives to Huawei, US says
Seagate's $300 million fine is largest in US Commerce bureau's history. Enlarge / A Seagate office building on October 26, 2022 in Fremont, California. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Seagate yesterday agreed.....»»
US imposes $300m penalty over hard disk drive exports to Huawei
It is the latest move by the US government to stop sales of sophisticated technology to China......»»
Seagate to pay $300 million penalty for shipping Huawei hard drives in violation of US export control laws
Seagate Technology has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement with US authorities for shipping over $1.1 billion worth of hard disk drives to China's Huawei in violation of US export control laws, the Department of Commerce said on Wedn.....»»
5 tips and tricks to free up disk space and hidden storage on your Mac
As our devices become increasingly more capable and powerful, our Macs can fill up faster than we expect. Follow along for five tips and tricks to free up Mac storage and hidden space including native and third-party advanced options. more… The.....»»
How were amino acids, one of the key building blocks of life, formed before the origin of life on Earth?
Our solar system formed from a molecular cloud, which was composed of gas and dust that was emitted into the interstellar medium (ISM), a vast space between stars. On collapse of the molecular cloud, the early sun was formed, with a large disk of gas.....»»
Large double-ring disk detected around the star 2MASS J04124068+2438157
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has performed high-resolution observations of an M-dwarf star known as 2MASS J04124068+2438157. Results of the observational campaign, published March.....»»
Scientists observe flattest explosion ever seen in space
An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as part of its shape—similar to that of an extremely flat disk—challenges everything we know about explosions in space......»»