09 Jan ORCs, Newly Discovered Ghostly Circles in the Sky Can’t Be Explained by Current Theories

Astronomers have found ghostly circles of radio emission, hanging in space like cosmic smoke rings. What are they? No one knows. The race is on to find out.

 

 

In September 2019, the astronomer Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she had found while browsing new radio astronomical data. She had started noticing very weird shapes she couldn’t fit easily to any known type of object. Among them, labeled by Anna as WTF?, was a picture of a ghostly circle of radio emission, hanging out in space like a cosmic smoke-ring. None of the attending astronomers had ever seen anything like it before, and had no idea what it was. A few days later, another astronomer, Emil Lenc found a second one, even more spooky than the first one.

 

Read the full article at: singularityhub.com

02 Jan Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

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Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.

Read the full article at: berthub.eu

02 Jan The best photography of 2020

To celebrate the new year, here is a hand-picked selection of the most impressive photographs of 2020. This gallery gathers our favorite images from the top photography competitions of the last 12 months, including subway fighting mice, head-spinning wildlife snaps, and some spectacular drone shots.

Read the full article at: newatlas.com

25 Dec NORAD tracks Santa Claus in cosmic trip of International Space Station | Space

NORAD and AGI are tracking Santa’s flyby of the International Space Station, which comes just in time for Christmas during the station’s 20th anniversary year of crewed missions.

Read the full article at: www.space.com

24 Dec 12 design fails that were so bad they were actually good

Good design takes a lot of skill, time and energy – it never happens by chance. And it’s vital to remember that design is ultimately about clear communication. Just as a writer or speaker needs to choose the perfect words to deliver their message, designers must communicate theirs by selecting the correct visual elements, which convey exactly what they want to say.

But unintended interpretations sometimes occur, creating confusion through oversight or lack of feedback. Sometimes, those mistakes can be so major that onlookers outside the process wonder how the design got signed off. Bad design can serve a purpose, though, which is to exist as a lesson on what not to do. Here, we round up 12 ginormous design fails, covering packaging, UI and logo design, which offer us all something to learn from. If you’d like a lesson on what to do, see our guide to logo design.

We look at 12 design blunders that serve as lessons to avoid repeating in your own projects.

Read the full article at: www.creativebloq.com

19 Dec WIRED: SpaceX Launches—and Crashes—Its Starship Mars Rocket

The test flight didn’t come close to the edge of space, but the prototype was a big step toward the rocket’s first orbital mission.

 

Just recently, SpaceX successfully launched—and nearly landed—a fully-assembled prototype of its next generation Starship rocket on a suborbital flight from its facility in south Texas. This is the rocket that Elon Musk hopes will soon carry humans to the moon and, eventually, to Mars, but Wednesday’s launch was an unmanned test flight that lasted just a few minutes. The rocket flew to an altitude of 40,000 feet—roughly the cruising altitude of a commercial airliner—and performed what Musk has called a “belly flop” maneuver on its way back to earth. The rocket executed a controlled descent to the surface and righted itself just a few hundred feet above the ground. But it wasn’t able to slow its descent enough to safely touch down, and it exploded spectacularly near the landing pad. While the rocket made it only about a tenth of the way to space and didn’t survive the landing attempt, it’s still a major step toward a first orbital mission and a big win for Musk’s interplanetary ambitions.

 

Read the full article at: www.wired.com

19 Dec LED lights found to kill coronavirus: Global first in fight against COVID-19

Researchers from the Tel Aviv University (TAU) have shown that the coronavirus can be killed efficiently, quickly, and cheaply using ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs). They believe that the UV-LED technology will soon be available for private and commercial use.

 

This is the first study conducted on the disinfection efficiency of UV-LED irradiation at different wavelengths or frequencies on a virus from the family of coronaviruses. The article was published in November 2020 issue of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.

 

Read the full article at: aftau.org

19 Dec Do Uranus’ Moons Have Subsurface Oceans?

Scientists tested whether a classic technique could detect subsurface oceans on the moons of Uranus. In this scenario, the planet’s oddball magnetic field offers a big advantage.

 

Uranus’s magnetic field, like so much about the planet itself, is quite odd compared with other solar system planets: The field is tilted by 59° from the planet’s spin axis, and its center is shifted by about a third of the planet’s radius from the planet’s center.

Magnetic induction confirmed the presence of Europa’s and Callisto’s subsurface oceans, but Jupiter’s very symmetric magnetic field made it impossible for the Galileo mission to figure out the oceans’ depth, thickness, or salinity with its small number of flybys.

 

Read the full article at: eos.org

11 Dec First Robotic Kitchen In The World Cooks And Cleans Up Everything – KEDLIST

A British company has claimed that they have built the world’s first robotic kitchen. The total concept consists of a robot assembled into a luxury kitchen where the robot will learn the recipe and serve you with freshly cooked food in front of you. The name of the company is Moley Robotics which was established in the year 2014. Dr. Mark Oleynik is the creator of this amazing robotic kitchen which even mimics the patterns made by human hands at the time of cooking meals.

Read the full article at: kedlist.com