Enlarge / Illustration of a swarm regarding smaller black holes in some sort of gas disk rotating around a good giant black hole. (credit: M. Samsing/Neils Bohr Institute) Within 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration selected up a gravitational wave transmission from a black hole merging that proved to be 1 for the record books. Called “GW190521, […]
Enlarge (credit: Adam Gault ) Neil Bradbury is a physiology professor whose first book, A Taste for Poison , uses tales of poisons and poisoners as a means to explain physiological processes by describing how each poison disrupts them. The grisly episodes are like the particular proverbial spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Shake, a simple seismograph based on Raspberry Pi hardware. (credit: Mike Hotchkiss, Raspberry Shake) On the afternoon of January 12, 2010, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck about 16 miles west of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. Among the most significant seismic disasters recorded, more than 100,000 people lost their lives. The damage—costing billions of […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of what an Earth-like planet might look like in a nearby star system. (credit: ESO/L. Calçada) We now know that our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is host to at least two planets. But we’re not sure if there are any planets near Alpha Centauri, a binary system just beyond that. If […]
Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. (credit: Getty | BSIP) Researchers in France have reported the first compelling genetic evidence of a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 virus that contains elements of both the omicron coronavirus variant and the delta variant. However, health experts […]
Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin has been tweeting like he’s unhinged since Russia invaded Ukraine. (credit: Yegor AleyevTASS via Getty Images) It has now been half a month since Russia invaded Ukraine, setting into motion a set of consequences that have reverberated around the world. In the space domain, this has led to a […]
Enlarge / A health care worker carries test tubes while on duty in the bacteriological laboratory at the Lviv Regional Laboratory Centre of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, Lviv, western Ukraine. (credit: Getty | Future Publishing ) The World Health Organization has advised officials in Ukraine to destroy any high-risk pathogens housed in public […]
Enlarge / Only five Ariane 5 rockets remain before Europe will transition to the Ariane 6 vehicle. (credit: ArianeGroup) Welcome to Edition 4.35 of the Rocket Report! No report next week. We’re now one week away from the momentous rollout of the Space Launch System rocket for the first time to the launch pad. I […]
Enlarge / This fragmented inscription records a decree concerning the Acropolis of Athens and dates back to 485-484 BCE. (credit: Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0) Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece. The new system, […]
Enlarge / While graphene sheets can be large in length and width, their height is the same as a single carbon atom. (credit: Getty Images) The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and carbon nanotubes, however, […]