The world’s most powerful camera just shared its first space image – and the 5 gigapixel detail is breathtaking
Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first full-resolution image It was captured using an…
Astronomers just captured the sharpest view of a distant star ever seen
Sharper views from a single telescope: Normally, astronomers link multiple telescopes together to get the clearest images of distant stars and galaxies. A UCLA-led team has now achieved record-breaking detail of the star beta Canis Minoris using just one telescope equipped with a breakthrough device called a photonic lantern. How it works: The photonic lantern…
Scientists just found a surprising link between gray hair and cancer
Throughout life, our cells are continually exposed to both internal and external influences that can harm DNA. This DNA damage is a well-known factor in the development of aging and cancer, yet scientists have long struggled to understand the exact link — especially how DNA-damaged stem cells affect tissue health over time. Melanocyte stem cells…
Scientists launch $14.2 million project to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”
How does your brain know when to take a breath, stabilize your blood pressure, or fight off an infection? The answer lies in interoception, a lesser-known process through which the nervous system constantly monitors the body’s internal signals to keep essential functions running. Now, a collaborative team from Scripps Research and the Allen Institute has…
Scientists just made gene editing far more powerful
Some inherited diseases, including cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and Tay Sachs disease, involve multiple genetic mutations within a person’s DNA. Even two individuals with the same condition may have different sets of mutations. Because of this complexity, creating gene therapies that work broadly across all patients with a given disorder has been extremely difficult. A New…
Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest
For the first time, scientists have directly witnessed a subduction zone — the place where one tectonic plate plunges beneath another — in the midst of breaking apart. The finding, published in Science Advances, provides an unprecedented view of how Earth’s surface changes over time and adds new insight into the potential for future earthquakes…
Parents urged to vaccinate children as flu cases rise
Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated against flu over half-term as the NHS warned of rising cases of the disease. There is an early flu season, health officials say, and the latest data for England showed cases and hospitalisations were increasing. NHS England said many school children will have already received the…
Gear News of the Week: There’s Yet Another New AI Browser, and Fujifilm Debuts the X-T30 III
An increasingly popular solution is the inclusion of a solar panel to keep that battery topped up, enabling you to install and potentially never touch the camera again. Both Wyze and TP-Link just revealed interesting solar-powered cameras this week. Let’s talk about Wyze first. The Wyze Solar Cam Pan ($80) is a 2K outdoor security…
Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s fundamental reliance on so-called hyperscalers like AWS and the challenges for major cloud providers and their customers alike when things go awry. See below for more…
Snake pee might hold the secret to ending gout pain and kidney stones
If you’ve never kept a reptile, you might be surprised to learn that many of them actually “pee” in crystal form. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers examined the solid urine of more than 20 different reptile species and found that all contained tiny spheres made of uric…
The Universe’s first radio waves could reveal dark matter
For the first time, researchers at Tel Aviv University have predicted what might be discovered by detecting radio waves that originated in the early Universe. Their results suggest that during the “cosmic dark ages,” dark matter gathered into dense clumps across space, pulling in hydrogen gas that emitted intense radio waves. This new approach could…
