object has “rounded sides and rugged edges”. “First we thought this was only stone, but this is something else,” diver Peter Lindberg said in a press release. At the center of the object, which has a 60-meter diameter, has an “egg shaped hole leading into it from the top”. Surrounding the hole, they found a strange, unexplained rock formation. Adding fuel to the speculative fire, they said that t…
…e also created to help the computer learn the appearance of objects and the context they were likely to be used in by analyzing the data gathered. To prove the system worked the two scientists labeled 48 objects – including knives, forks, keys and a Rubik’s cube – and identified 80 possible locations around a house. They then asked volunteers to move the items around according to…
Dark Energy Camera, the highest-resolution camera ever built, has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe. The Dark Energy Survey’s 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years. The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorized to be responsible for the ever-faster expan…
…h to certify the six new galaxies and the one re-classification. The objects lie in a range that covers redshifts 8.2-11.9 – the technical way of describing a period in time that runs from about 600 million years to 380 million years after the Big Bang (current cosmology suggests the Big Bang occurred some 13.77 billion years ago). The most distant object, UDFj-39546284, was first announced…
Scientists have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat. Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat. The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5 cm-wide flat region impervious to heat flowing around it. The technology could be put to…
were not childish pranks – Louis is 15-years-old.” Louis is the son of Nicolas Sarkozy’s second wife, Cecilia Attias, whom he famously divorced within a few months of becoming president in 2007. Cecilia Attias now lives full time in New York, having remarried, but Louis Sarkozy frequently travels to Paris to see his father. Nicolas Sarkozy has two older sons, Pierre and Jean, who are f…
…rd Appleton Laboratory in the UK have just been signed off, clearing MIRI to travel to America. James Webb – regarded as the successor to Hubble – is due to launch in 2018. It will carry a 6.5m primary mirror (more than double the width of Hubble’s main mirror), and a shield the size of a tennis court to guard its sensitive vision from the heat and strong light of our Sun. The ob…
…rt reaffirms our steadfast commitment to defending those rights for our users.” The case centres around Malcolm Harris, managing editor of the New Inquiry website. Malcolm Harris was arrested on 1 October along with hundreds of other campaigners during a march across Brooklyn Bridge. Malcolm Harris was arrested on 1 October along with hundreds of other campaigners during a march across Broo…
…r T. Russell said the rounded asteroid showed evidence of geological processes that characterize rocky worlds like Earth and the Moon. Vesta is the second most massive of the asteroids, measuring some 530 km (330 miles) in diameter. It is dominated by a huge crater called Rheasilvia and bears many other scars left by the hammering it has received at the hands of other asteroid belt denizens. One i…
Researchers have found that the space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and was widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was likely a speeding comet. That is the conclusion of research which suggests the 180 km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico was carved out by a smaller object than previously thought. Many scientists consider a large and relatively slow moving asteroid to have been th…
…rder a dog or chimp standing with its back to the objects, to fetch the correct one. If it did as asked, it was given some food as a reward. Babies are capable of following such orders from the age of 14 months, suggesting the task is relatively simple, at least for the human brain. In the study, the dogs did better than the chimps, despite the chimpanzee’s brain being the more similar to the hum…
a liquid substance that hardened when exposed to ultraviolet light. The printer deposited and hardened this polymer layer by layer with a high degree of accuracy that equated to a print resolution of 600 dots per inch. One application involved the creation of air pockets in the shape of thin hollow tubes of various lengths which were arranged to resemble the shape of a cartoon heart inside an ani…
Universal Orlando is altering its iconic twin roller coasters Dragon Challenge after a man claims he had his eyeball removed in one of two horrific accidents on the ride. Dragon Challenge twin roller coasters has been the most thrilling experiences at Universal Orlando for more than ten years, as they race at 60 mph and intertwine within 18 inches of each other. Universal Orlando officials have a…
Kubilius’ governing conservatives, unpopular for cutting pensions and public wages, came third. Having won 34 seats in the first round, Labour and the Social Democrats hope to win enough of the 67 seats available on Sunday to allow them to form a coalition government. Lithuania’s 3.3 million inhabitants face an unemployment rate of 13% and declining living standards, as well as high e…
…by 15%, unemployment climb and thousands of young people in the Baltic nation of 3.3 million emigrate in search of work. Under Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius’s coalition government, GDP grew by 5.8% last year – one of the fastest rates of any EU economy – and the budget deficit has been tamed. The price was swingeing cuts to the extent that only every third street lamp in the ca…
…what is called a spatial light modulator to “undo” the scattering that makes objects opaque or non-reflecting. A camera that can “see around corners” garnered much attention in 2010, using a series of timed laser pulses to illuminate a scene and working out what is around a corner from the timing of the reflections. The prototype device was just one of a great many research…
Harvard computer scientists have developed the software that helps turn video game characters into real-life figures, using a 3D printer. Computer figures created without the constraints of the physical world are difficult to print. So the team developed a tool that identifies ideal locations for a real-world figure’s joints. But a lawyer said if the technology were to come on the mass mark…
ted over in the post-war years. In the halls flanking the grand gallery, the decoration is more modern. British artist Richard Wright, a former Turner Prize winner, has dusted the ceilings with almost 50,000 stars, hand-painted in a swirling, shifting constellation. It all serves to set up the Rijksmuseum’s biggest star – Rembrandt’s Night Watch. A gigantic Baroque painting of 17…
…eeded to evacuate. • Make plans to secure your property: • Cover all of your home’s windows. Permanent storm shutters offer the best protection for windows. A second option is to board up windows with 5/8” marine plywood, cut to fit and ready to install. Tape does not prevent windows from breaking. • Install straps or additional clips to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure. This will…
NASA’s Dawn satellite has left the giant Asteroid Vesta after 13 months of study. A signal from Dawn probe confirming that it had escaped the gravitational bounds of the 530 km-wide rock was received by NASA on Wednesday. The spacecraft’s ion engine is now pushing it on to an even bigger target in the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter – the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn is e…
Researchers from Austin, Texas, have “cloaked” a 3-D object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The demonstration uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a “photo negative” of the object being cloaked, effectively cancel…
Police arrested around 300 Occupy protesters in Oakland after trying to enter the City Hall and a convention centre. Police fired tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse crowds who threw rocks, bottles and other objects. Oakland was the scene of similar clashes last October. In December, protesters occupied the port. Oakland is one of several US cities to see mass protests over economic inequalit…
“a walking coffin”. Militant Muslim woman Hind Ahmas, 32 – dubbed France’s first “burka martyr” – is currently facing two years in prison for wearing the veil after refusing to pay a 50 Euros fine for the offence. She is appealing the fine on the grounds that the new law is unconstitutional and preparing to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Senior police chiefs…
mers and engineers used an instrument called Pionier, which replaces a multitude of mirrors with a single optical microchip. Although the first attempt to combine the four telescopes happened in March 2011, it did not really work, said Jean-Philippe Berger, a French astronomer involved in the project. But this time, it was already pretty clear that all the instruments were working correctly, Jean-…
NASA has identified a 460 ft wide asteroid, 2011 AG5, soaring through space and calculated that it could potentially impact Earth on February 5th 2040. The 2011 AG5 has already attracted the concern of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has begun discussing ways to divert it. The UN Action Team has put the odds of it hitting us at one in 625, though that could change nearer the time….
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