An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same pioneering team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The new work opens up the prospect of studying imperfections in the “wonder material” graphen…
NASA has released the first spectacular images taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, detailing a mound of layered rock where scientists plan to focus their search for the chemical ingredients of life on the Red Planet. The stunning photographs reveal distinct tiers of near the base of the 3-mile-tall mountain that rises from the floor of the vast, ancient impact basin known as Gale Crater, where Cur…
…fter Kate was admitted to hospital with extreme morning sickness, sparked by a rare condition called Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), they had little choice but to make the announcement. Kate Middleton, 30, who is thought to be between six and eight weeks pregnant, was taken to the hospital just after lunch on Sunday by her husband and put on a drip to stop her becoming dehydrated. But the news deli…
…ysis of images “indicates that North Korea continues to develop long-range missiles”. There had been at least two tests of rocket motors since a failed rocket launch in April, it said. The 30 m (100 ft) rocket crashed into the sea shortly after take off. Pyongyang said the launch was aimed at putting a satellite into orbit, but it was widely criticized by the US, South Korea and Japan…
…ble to classify a huge range of terrain. Dr. Jason Ur said this had removed subjectivity and allowed them to look at a much larger area. In all, about 9,000 possible settlements were identified across 23,000 sq km. Ideally, Dr. Jason Ur said, some of these would be excavated, but the volatile political situation in Syria had forced them to put any ground searches on hold. However, Dr. Jason Ur sai…
mount of material and a great range of conditions,” the Cardiff University, UK, researcher said. To provide a sense of scale, the Horsehead Nebula, also known in the catalogues as “Barnard 33″, is about five light-years “tall”. Hubble telescope sees the Horsehead in near-infrared light. Herschel, on the other hand, goes to much longer wavelengths. This allows it to se…
New images of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with his arms full of Doritos and Red Bull as he and his brother Tamerlan attempt a getaway after becoming prime terror suspects. Dressed in a grey hoodie, the surveillance footage is believed to show 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he enters a gas station in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The man following him into the store in the beige cap appears to be 26-year-old…
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ly superior. For instance, scientists at the University of Nottingham created a microscopic portrait of the Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee that was so small it could fit on a standard postage stamp 300,000 times. Lena Soderberg’s picture was first used as a test image in 1973. An assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Signal and Image Proces…
…g site in the equatorial Gale Crater provides the first real ground truth for those observations. By luck, the rover just happened to roll past a spectacular example of the conglomerate. A large slab, 10-15 cm thick, was lifted out of the ground at an angle. “We’ve named it Hottah,” said rover project scientist John Grotzinger. The name refers to a lake in Canada’s Northwes…
…ojects Agency. AWARE2 prototype machine is capable of taking pictures with resolutions of up 50 gigapixels, equivalent to 50,000 megapixels The prototype camera itself is two-and-half feet square and 20 inches deep. “Each one of the microcameras captures information from a specific area of the field of view,” David Brady said. “A computer processor essentially stitches all this…
…jets of water vapor and ice that the moon spews forth into space. Cassini probe also made relatively close flypasts of two other Saturnian satellites: Dione and Janus. The observations were made over 27 and 28 March. The encounter was primarily designed for Cassini’s ion and neutral mass spectrometer instrument, which sampled the composition of Enceladus’s south polar plume. Other ins…
Ebb, one of two washing-machine-sized NASA spacecrafts, has sent back a gallery of images of Earth from an orbit just 35 miles above the moon surface. American middle school pupils at the Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana, directed the “MoonKam” to areas of the surface which caught their attention. The school won a national competition to be first – but other schools aro…
The Titanic disaster has been revealed in extraordinary detailed images after researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field. Researchers hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened on that fateful night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic…
Images of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover as it made its historic descent yesterday have now been released. NASA has provided almost 300 thumbnails from a sequence of pictures that will eventually be run together as a color hi-def movie. Visible in the timelapse is the heatshield discarded by the vehicle as it neared the ground. It was the crane that finally settled the robot on…
By posing for the Louis Vuitton campaign, U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps may be stripped of his medals, four gold and two silver, from the London 2012 Games. The latest Louis Vuitton campaign images, which included Michael Phelps, surfaced on Twitter on August 13, 2012. According to Rule 40, a regulation introduced by the International Olympic Committee earlier this year, no athlete was able…
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Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA satellite, captured amazing pictures of a gigantic tornado moving across the sun. The tornado is larger than it might look – in fact, it is probably bigger than the Earth, and could extend hundreds of thousands of miles out into space. And while its progress over the sun’s surface seems almost stately, it is moving at 300,000 miles per hour. The extr…
…child pornography by any of its employees, regardless of where it occurs.” If the allegations prove true, Grant Smith will be immediately dismissed. Grant Smith has a pretrial hearing set for December 27….
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…um where the embalmed body of his father – national founder Kim Il-Sung – has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994. A state funeral will be held there on December 28. Ri Ho-Il, a lecturer at the Korean Revolutionary History Museum, said: “Our General is our people’s benevolent father. He defended our people’s happiness, carrying on his forced march…
…a model’s features, such as their shape or their skin tone. Each altered photograph was scored between one and five, with five representing a heavy retouching. Volunteers were each asked to score from 1 to 5 how similar each pair of pictures was. Prof. Hany Farid and his student, Eric Kee, found a close correlation between their computerized assessment and the human opinion, suggesting the techniq…
…ake the pictures I want and let the publication decide whether to print them. “What they choose to print is not the photographer’s problem, but the editor’s.” There are thought to be up to 200 photos taken of Kate and Prince William at the time – many of them much more explicit. Closer magazine’s editor Laurence Pieau defended her decision to publish 13 of the photos, insis…
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South Korean researchers have developed a technology that could lead to the creation of glasses-free 3D films at cinemas. It uses a barrier with slats so that when a viewer looks at the screen each of their eyes sees the image differently. As a result their brain creates an illusion of depth. TV makers have tried to use a similar approach, but require viewers to be in a particular spot to see a 3…
…de the home. Saudi leader King Abdullah is seen as trying to cautiously introduce reforms, some aimed at loosening restrictions on women’s right to vote. IKEA, which posted net profits of almost 3 billion euros ($3.9 billion) last year, operates three branches in Saudi Arabia. …
Nena von Schlebrugge, Uma Thurman’s mother, posed for Vogue when she worked as model in the 1950s. The shots were taken in a London alleyway by photographer Norman Parkinson and show Nena von Schlebrugge wearing items from Yves Saint Laurent’s first collection for Christian Dior. Norman Parkinson first spotted Mexican-born Nena von Schlebrugge’s model potential when he met her in Stockholm,…
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…imaging engine processes the data producing HD quality images. The pictures are displayed in 2D, but in 2012 a special algorithm will be applied to the light field and the photos will be displayed in 3D. The viewers will be able to shift the perspective of the scene. Lytro light field camera also can shot images in low light without the use of a flash. The pictures taken are 11 megarays (around 2…
…fter leaving the wedding, she added: “2 weddings on opposite coasts in one weekend! Just landed in NY & am heading straight to ceremony number 2. A lot to celebrate this weekend!” Natalie Portman, 31, met choreographer Benjamin Millepied, 35, on the set of Black Swan in 2009 and they got engaged in December 2010. When Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan role, she paid tri…
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