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Researchers create insect-inspired autonomous navigation strategy for small, lightweight robots

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Small, 56 gram “CrazyFlie” drone that can navigate back to a starting location using an insect-inspired navigation strategy. Credit: Guido de Croon / TU Delft | MAV Lab Have you ever wondered how insects can travel so far from their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant … Read more

Meteor showers, planetary skies and clustered giants create spectacle over southern Utah

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SAINT GEORGE – July marks the beginning of a spectacular display in the skies over southern Utah, where clear skies and a waning gibbous moon set the stage for planetary encounters, astronomical flights into the gas giant, and the start of one of the year’s richest meteor showers. Stock photo of meteor shower for illustration … Read more

Hands-on: Cong Burn’s Stacks Plug-in and iOS App Synths, Loops and Layers – CDM Create Digital Music

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From the creator of Strokes, Stacks is a unique 4-voice wavetable morphing polysynth combined with a 4-track granular looper. But that description doesn’t really do it justice: modeling and digital grunge combine to create a raunchy instrument that behaves like an experimental studio. I’ve been playing around with a test version of Stacks on desktop. … Read more

Physicists create ‘impossible’ time crystal by shooting atoms into balloons

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Scientists have blown up some atoms like balloons to create an extreme version of an ‘impossible’ state of matter. By bombarding rubidium atoms with lasers, physicists have forced them into an airy Rydberg state. This experiment resulted in an exotic state of matter known as a time crystal. According to the team, this opens up … Read more

A once-in-a-lifetime explosion is about to create a ‘new’ star in the sky

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Credit: Stellarium Web Online Star Map Every night a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won’t set the sky ablaze, it is a special chance to see a rare event that is normally difficult to predict in advance. The star in question is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB, pronounced … Read more

Scientists successfully create a time crystal made of giant atoms

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Experimental protocol and mean-field phase diagram. Credit: Physics (2024). DOI file: 10.1038/s41567-024-02542-9 A crystal is a system of atoms that repeats itself in space at regular intervals: at every point, the crystal looks exactly the same. In 2012, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek asked the question: Could there also be a time crystal, an object … Read more

Look up! A once-in-a-lifetime explosion is about to create a ‘new’ star in the sky

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Every night a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won’t set the sky ablaze, it is a special chance to see a rare event that is normally difficult to predict in advance. The star in question is T Coronae Borealis (T CrB, pronounced “T Cor Bor”). It’s located in … Read more

Co-founder of Titanic submarine company wants to colonize the moon and create a coexistence with Earth

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Really supportindependent journalism Find out moreClose to Our mission is to provide objective, fact-based reporting that speaks to power and reveals the truth. Whether it’s $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Support us in delivering journalism without an agenda. A year after the Titan submarine disaster, OceanGate’s co-founder has expressed his ambitions to colonize the … Read more

Beneath the moon’s surface, magnetized lava can create ‘lunar vortices’

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A dark grey high altitude view of the lunar surface, with tiny craters speckled throughout, and one large crater on the far right.

New research suggests that mysterious swirl patterns on the lunar surface may be linked to subsurface magma activity. The “lunar vortices“observed on the moon show a spiral pattern created by magnetized rocks that deflect or redirect the waves solar wind particles that constantly bombard the moon. Moon rocks that fall within the lunar vortices remain … Read more

Continental, DT Swiss and Swiss Side join forces to create the Continental Aero 111, the ‘world’s first aerodynamic tire’: here are our first riding impressions

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Continental, DT Swiss and Swiss Side team up to create the Continental Aero 111, the 'world’s first aerodynamic tyre': here are our first ride impressions

The mysterious new tire spotted on the front wheels of Decathlon AG2R riders at the Tour de France can now be revealed as the Continental Aero 111. It is the culmination of six years of research and development between DT Swiss, Swiss Side and Continental, with the aim of creating the ultimate wheel-tyre system, or … Read more