Named slightly differently depending on which platform you’re on, the latest Fortnite update has been released. This new patch was released today on all platforms and includes a lot of tweaks and changes. For those playing Fortnite Battle Royale, this latest update has provided stats for the first time, which […]
Daily Archives: October 12, 2017
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Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, a day reputed to bring bad luck down upon all who experience it. It’s also the title of a classic 1980 horror film about a murderous stalker haunting teenagers at a lake campground. In a continuing effort to pay tribute to all of its ’80s […]
As Hurricanes Harvey and Irma wreaked widespread destruction in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina in late August, and just days later, Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with a force “not seen in modern history,” we are seeing the worst of Mother Nature bringing out the […]
WASHINGTON — General Atomics is better known for building Predator combat drones and mining uranium than building spacecraft, but that could change as the company develops an interest in building defense-focused cubesats. Also in the realm of possibility: using expertise from building railguns to design a large, electromagnetic cannon as […]
Life on Earth is impossible without photosynthesis. It provides food and oxygen to all higher life forms and plays an important role in the climate system, since this process regulates the uptake of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere and its fixation in biomass. However, quantification of photosynthesis at the […]
New research offers the first demonstration of optical fibers sturdy enough to sense a wide range of human motion.
Using a new twist on a technique for imaging atomic structures, researchers have detected a unique quantum property of the Majorana fermion, an elusive particle with the potential for use in quantum information systems.
When talking with their young infants, parents instinctively use ‘baby talk,’ a unique form of speech including exaggerated pitch contours and short, repetitive phrases. Now, researchers have found another unique feature of the way mothers talk to their babies: they shift the timbre of their voice in a rather specific […]