This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It was just this year that we got our first real look at a black hole, and it matched many of the theoretical predictions that came before the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project made history. An impressive new NASA simulation […]
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Voom works with third-party helicopter operators and helipads to deliver on-demand service. (Voom Photo) Voom has officially extended its app-based, on-demand helicopter service to the San Francisco Bay Area, confirming that the Airbus subsidiary is now active in the United States as well as in Brazil and Mexico. Today’s announcement comes months after initial reports
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What if there were a safe way to approach a black hole, like in the movie Interstellar? It would probably look something like this NASA visualization. This simulated black hole is surrounded by accumulated matter being pulled toward it, and the particles are in a thin accretion disk, where the swirling pace nears the speed
A team member at D-Wave Systems, based in Burnaby, B.C.,, works on the dilution refrigerator system that cools the processors in the company’s quantum computer. (D-Wave Systems Photo / Larry Goldstein) D-Wave Systems says its next-generation, 5,000-qubit quantum computing system will be called Advantage, to recognize the business advantage it hopes its customers will derive
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the future, night vision capability might be a superpower delivered via injection rather than something that requires bulky headgear. Scientists have demonstrated that it’s possible to give mice the ability to see in the dark by injecting their eyes
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tech2 News StaffSep 23, 2019 16:32:13 IST The fate of the world’s coastal regions and the hundreds of millions of people who inhabit them depend on a block of ice atop West Antarctica on track to lift global oceans by at least three metres. It is not, according to available science, a matter of “if”
Standing erect from the sea floor (Mr Virgil Tanasa/Natural History Museum) Scientists at London’s Natural History Museum have discovered a new group of well-preserved fossils dating back over 400 million years. The fossils appear to be a new species of echinoderm, a type of marine invertebrate that’s a distant relative of the starfish. They were
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Famed anthropologist Wade Davis inadvertently created an academic urban legend with his account of an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces and vanished into the Arctic. That’s the conclusion of a new study by experimental anthropologists at Kent State University, who fashioned their own blades
The legendary Viking warriors known as berserkers were renowned for their ferocity in battle, purportedly fighting in a trancelike state of blind rage (berserkergang), howling like wild animals, biting their shields, and often unable to distinguish between friend and foe in the heat of battle. But historians know very little about the berserkers apart from
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Illustration: Rhett Allain As you can see, each of these objects has three forces acting on it—two vertical forces and one horizontal force. The vertical forces aren’t that important here. For the dog, there is its downward weight (Wd) and the upward “normal” force from the board. Same for the board-plus-human. (Technically, the upward force
