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Large Plasma Tubes Confirmed to Exist Above The Earth's Atmosphere For over six decades, scientists have speculated about the existence of plasma structures that reside in the magnetosphere’s inner layers. Researchers in Australia have now created 3D images of these tubes for the very first...

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Watch Las Vegas' Population Boom As Its Primary Water Source Drains Among the many criticisms of cities during this epic drought is the idea that maybe not so many humans should live in deserts. But nowhere has more fingers pointed at it than Las Vegas. This visualization shows just how much...

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Rig for silent running is the one I remember hearing the most. It basically means what it says, STFU and keep that way, we're not supported to make noise. Rig ship for lady visitors I heard this one too:lol:. Never for when we had ladies, but always for senior officers. Put your p*rn away and...

Russia's Aerobatic Aviation Teams Are Pure, Ridiculous Spectacle Russia has added a new aerobatic layer to its yearly military aviation competition, and just like it’s shirtless, horse-riding leader, it’s just as outrageously over the top as you’d expect. Aviadarts is taking place near the...

The Ingenious Plan for the Ocean to Clean Itself Is Led By a 20-Year-Old A Dutch man barely out of his teens is leading one of the most ambitious ocean cleanup efforts ever: to halve the amount of plastic debris floating in the Pacific within a decade. The man’s name is Boyan Slat, and he’s...

A Robot That Pushes Like a Human Is More Impressive Than It Sounds A truly smart robot adapts to a variety of challenges on the fly—like adjusting its posture to push or pull big objects, just like a person does. But what comes naturally to humans is a lot more complicated for robots. Take...

No exciting tech news today, so how about a history lesson? Britain Sent Thousands of Its Convicts to America, Not Just Australia The joke about Australia is that it was founded by a bunch of criminals. And from 1788 until 1868, Britain did send roughly 164,000 convicts to the land down...

AI for UUV/USV? Remote weapons systems? Missile processing systems? Discrimination algorithms? Safety support and testing? :undecided: I don't know:(. I build robots:partay:: Ok, technically I make humans function better (or compromised ones function normally). I have a Masters in...

The Milky Way's Densest Star Cluster Looks Like A Dazzling Glitter Bomb The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the Arches Cluster, thought to be the densest star cluster in the Milky Way. This visually striking cluster is about 25,000 light years from earth, and is a...

I've tried to tell you, Nordic Stronk!!! Micro stories - small news bits too small to have their own thread Watch Júlíus Björnsson (AKA The Mountain of Game Of Thrones) carrying a 1433-pound (650 Kg) log on his back and walk five steps with it breaking a 1000-year-old viking weightlifting...

Scientists are Growing Tiny Cerebral Cortexes in Petri Dishes Yep, you heard that one correctly. In what could be a major step forward for personalized medicine, researchers have perfected a technique for growing miniature balls of cortical tissue—the key working tissue in the human brain—in...

The Physics Behind Ice Spikes, Nature's Perfect Murder Weapon Ice spikes may very well be the perfect untraceable weapon, but how do these jagged sticks of frosty death form? Turns out there’s no magic involved (womp), just some simple physics. Ice cubes freeze from their outer edges...

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Stunning Footage Captures Never Before Seen Deep Ocean Creatures In the Internet age, it’s easy to tell yourself you’ve seen it all. But while you’ve probably consumed a lifetime’s worth of cat videos, explosion gifs, and Hitler-vs-dinosaur action sequences at this point, the natural world’s...

Correct. Parts are being open sourced, such as simulator software, but much of the control software is being developed "in house" and under strict guidance. I can't give any updates on projects I'm involved in though; that information is classified as 1.4(e). HAPTIX STARTS WORK TO PROVIDE...

Open-Source Cyborg Hand is Making Prosthetics More Accessible Than Ever A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate just how quickly...

An Inside Look at the Construction of NASA's Next Mission to Mars Preparations for NASA’s next mission to Mars are kicking into high gear. And the technology the space agency is building for the Martian lander slated to launch in 2016 is enough to make science fiction fans foam at the mouth...