EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS Samsung Galaxy Note 8 revealed Almost a year after Samsung’s disastrous exploding Galaxy Note 7 was pulled from sale this popular phablet is making a spectacular return. Samsung has just lifted the lid on the all-new Galaxy Note 8 and it appears they have put their past issues […]
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Space age chicSpaceX By Sam Wong Space suits are getting a much-needed style makeover. Elon Musk has posted the first photo of SpaceX’s space suit, which will be worn by astronauts riding in the reusable Dragon crew capsule. Musk appears to be modelling the sleek white suit himself. It’s designed […]
I circled the San Francisco Bay and drove to the coast, but the fuel gauge in the 2017 Ford C-Max hybrid barely budged. It moved as slow as the wall clock in calculus class. As I felt the well-tuned driving dynamics from behind the wheel, and surveyed the large cargo […]
Cataclysmic collisionDana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc./Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics By Mika McKinnon Have we detected a new flavour of gravitational wave? Speculation is swelling that researchers have spotted the subtle warping of the fabric of space resulting from the cataclysmic collision of two neutron stars. Now optical telescopes – including […]
By Josh Gabbatiss The hallucinogenic effects of magic mushrooms are well documented. But nobody knows what psilocybin, the chemical responsible, does for the mushrooms themselves. Now, one of the first genomic analyses of hallucinogenic fungi has deciphered psilocybin production, and even suggested a function for it. By messing with insect […]
No eavesdropping with quantum commsGetty Images By Devin Powell The weird world of quantum mechanics is going for a swim. A team of Chinese researchers has, for the first time, transmitted quantum entangled particles of light through water – the first step in using lasers to send underwater messages that […]
By Aylin Woodward There’s a bright side to everything, perhaps even mass die-offs of animals. If one population of a species goes rapidly and completely extinct – maybe thanks to a forest fire or hurricane – it may help the species persist in the long run. Members of a species […]
Beginning to see the light?NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle By Jesse Emspak The “alien megastructure” star that has been puzzling us for the past few years might have a more ordinary explanation: an orbiting Saturn-like planet, complete with wobbling rings. In 2015, a group led by Tabetha Boyajian, then of Yale University, found […]