Would You Eat This Space Lettuce?
It may look unnatural (the LED lighting doesn't help) but this is part of a series of experiments aboard the International Space Station that sees astronauts growing lettuce in space. Read more >>
It may look unnatural (the LED lighting doesn't help) but this is part of a series of experiments aboard the International Space Station that sees astronauts growing lettuce in space. Read more >>
This giant cosmic bubble may seem an unusual sight, but in fact it’s pretty common across the Universe—because its the remnants of a dying star, otherwise known as a planetary nebula. Read more >>
This image shows two moons of Saturn, Mimas on the right and Dione on the left. And though it may be hard to believe, that dark line running through the centre is in fact Saturn’s ring. Read more >>
This might look like a slightly ramshackle home-brew drone, but its a new kind of robotic vehicle developed by NASA that “can gather samples on other worlds in places inaccessible to rovers.”
If you want to hear something very quiet, you need to reduce the ambient volume of your surroundings. For quantum physicists, though, that meant creating the world’s quietest gas.
The company has also taken the precaution of blacklisting apps that are known to use the exploit, which may help save some people from attacks.
This isn’t the kind of family snap we’re used to seeing — but it is still insanely cute. A drone piloted by conservationists close to Vancouver Island captured this image of a family of orcas as they swam through the sea together. Read more >>
Hey, you, get off of my cloud (book).
The potential vulnerability allows malware to be installed on a Mac without needing any system passwords.
This is Shannon’s information theory, and it’s the equation that makes data compression possible. Without it, you couldn’t have loaded this page on the web.
The wonder material gets a bit more wonderer-er.
This isn’t a dirty, peeling sticker but a groundbreaking scientific first.
Presumably someone at Google is making sure that the car knows its driver is actually a human, rather than a rock. Or a particularly large cat. [XKCD]
The purchase will reportedly help to evolve the companies' self-driving car technology.
Your eyes are good—but how good?
Right now they use heavy aluminium masking tape to cover up surfaces during production. Now, engineers at BAE Systems have created a new kind of tape that leaves the surface clean when it’s peeled away
