And for tech nerds? Well, you can get down and dirty with some hardware. If you want to spend the summer learning what makes electronics tick, The 2022 Complete Arduino Pioneer Starter Kit and Course Bundle offers an excellent primer. Not only does it feature a mini motherboard that you can tinker with, but it also packs courses that will beef up your understanding of creating tech projects from scratch....
Such recent activity raises the possibility that, volcanically, Mars “may still be active, even today,” says David Horvath, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, who led the study while at the University of Arizona. What’s more, NASA’s InSight mission has picked up Marsquakes coming from the area Horvath studied. The quakes suggest there could still be molten magma below the surface, warming the frozen underground and making make liquid water possible around volcanic hotspots, Horvath says....
SynTouch’s Biotac sensor detects temperature, pressure and vibration, just like the human fingertip. It even has artificial fingerprints to increase its sensitivity. In one study, the sensors were better than blindfolded humans at feeling the difference between various materials. That could make them ideal for helping companies design products with a precisely determined texture. Wired explains: Biotac sensors could provide a way for designers and manufacturers to quantify and standardize texture....
Fitbit Sense $179.95 (Was $249.95) Fitbit says the Sense’s battery can last up to six days depending on which features you use. This is very impressive given its feature set, especially when you compare it with the Apple Watch, which only lasts around 18 hours. If you’re searching for a smart watch and are primarily interested in using it to track your health, don’t skip out on this Fitbit Sense deal at Best Buy....
If you wish to upgrade your Apple gear and accessories, but don’t want to spend an arm and a leg, lo and behold these discounted alternatives for you to enjoy. With this sale, you can enjoy up to a 66-percent discount on refurbished Apple devices and tools. Apple MacBook Air 11-inch 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 128GB – Black (Refurbished) Reach peak productivity anywhere you go with this MacBook Air that ticks all the boxes: 9 hours of battery life, 128 GB of flash storage, Intel Core i5 processor, and 4GB of RAM....
A study published in the current issue of the journal Sexual Health found that science students were more likely to be virgins than their artsy classmates. Researchers in Australia surveyed 185 men and women, ages 16 to 25, at the University of Sydney on their sexual history and STD knowledge. Responses to questionnaires revealed that “art students were younger [and] more likely to be sexually active” than science students (who, presumably were too busy doing homework to get out and get busy)....
The Australian edition of Popular Science magazine and popsci.com.au launched on 24th September 2008. Kevin Cheung is the Editorial Director on Popular Science. The website, built in Drupal, is easy to navigate and chock-full of exciting daily content. It is also highly customisable, so finding the content you’re interested in is a breeze. The whole site is organised by keywords, so for instance, if you click the “robot” tag, you’ll see only articles about robots....
If you asked your dog whether other dogs’ butts smell good—and somehow broke the language barrier—they probably still wouldn’t understand the question. While it’s impossible to know exactly what feelings a canine feels when they take a whiff of another pooch’s rear end, it seems like the main driver behind their sniffing is the fact that other butts smell interesting. Sussing out the volatile chemicals that contribute to another animal’s unique perfume is the equivalent of asking for a business card....
As BBC News reported this week, a group of researchers pooled together from Bristol, Cambridge, London and the UK’s NHS Blood and Transplant recently injected their first two human volunteers with 5-10 milliliters (roughly “a couple spoonfuls”) of blood grown entirely within a laboratory setting—a world’s first. About four months later, the test subjects will also receive a similar injection of donated, naturally-developed blood to compare. If the patients’ bodies don’t reject the “artificial” donation, it could be an absolute game changer for increasing supplies of previously ultra-rare blood types, and may even one day enable smaller and less frequent transfusions....
If you’re already long overdue for a gear upgrade, there’s no harm in waiting for a few more months to enjoy the new Apple devices. But if you’re looking to save money and don’t mind using a computer from past releases, picking up a refurbished unit is the way to go. Of course, refurbished doesn’t necessarily mean defective. It may have a few scuffs here and there but it works just as new....
This species of venomous sea snail preys on fish by emitting plumes of venom that stun and paralyze its prey, allowing time for the snail to slime along and eat the fish while it’s still alive. But the venom might be useful to humans, too. “Inside the venom, there are hundreds of [different] molecules,” says Danny Hung-Chieh Chou, author of a new study that took a deep dive into the molecular contents of the venom....
Zoom’s end-to-end (E2E) encryption is great news for those who care about their privacy and security online. But the feature is not enabled by default, so you might still be connecting with friends, family, and colleagues through the video calling program’s less-than-perfectly-secure standard encryption protocol. And listen, that’s… fine, but you deserve the best. Why should you enable E2E encryption On their own, encrypted communications are a jumble of incomprehensible characters that require a key to translate that mess into intelligible text messages, audio clips, or video calls....
The mission is intended to advance understanding of how isolation and confinement affect individual and group behavior, according to NASA’s Tumblr. Now NASA has released a 360-degree video on Facebook of the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), the compact, three-story habitat where the crew lives, located at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Check it out above. In order to make the simulated mission as realistic as possible, the crew also experiences a 1-10 minute delay on all communications with mission control, according to NASA....
The orbiter’s first images show a smattering of Earth’s changing landscapes: the sediment-swirled Great Lakes near Detroit, Michigan; the mangrove-dotted inlets and bays of the northwest coast of Australia; the shifting beaches and cities of the Florida Panhandle; drought-prone swaths of the Navajo Nation in the Western US; and the melting glaciers of the Asian Himalayas. With nearly half a century of data collection behind it, the Landsat program—which actually includes the work of just eight orbiters, as Landsat 6 failed to launch in 1993—aims to aid in the management of natural resources and help understand and mitigate the effects of climate change....
The launch, which happened on December 7, was Orbital’s first successful launch since one of their rocket’s exploded. The footage was released as part of NASA’s new initiative by NASA to film more of their endeavors in 4K, a much higher resolution than typical HD videos. The results so far have been predictably awesome, including a new view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Some key moments in the above video: the rocket being moved to the launchpad at the 5:20 minute mark, and the actual countdown that starts at 6:49....
Normally, they perform this job relatively quietly. They eat your food and hang out inside your guts, but they don’t generally want to kill you. That’d reduce their number of potential homes. That’s why many people infected with tapeworms stay fairly symptom-free (we regret to inform you that often folks realize they’re infected when bits of the worms start coming out in their poop). In the rare event the intestinal infection does cause symptoms, they usually include loss of appetite, weight loss, an upset stomach, and perhaps abdominal pain....
Much to my delight, I found Stanley already knew that there are people out there just like me that need to eliminate the guesswork when hanging things on walls inundated with live wires. In comes the Stanley® FatMax® Stud Sensor 300, the Rolls-Royce of stud sensors. It has the look and feel of something Tony Stark would have engineered. It helped me navigate the gauntlet of live wires and pinpoint exactly where each stud was....
At the track at Spring Mountain Motor Resort in Nevada, we were able to lap behind instructors from the Ron Fellows driving school who were in 2019 Corvette ZR1s. Before I slid into that seat, the Fellows crew hands me a black balaclava to line the white open-face helmet, while they lock the helmet into a chest-wrapping hybrid Head And Neck Support (HANS) device in anticipation of my high-speed laps....
The process doesn’t always happen smoothly, because these services all save your fitness data in slightly different ways—and they don’t necessarily want you to switch to another app. Although you can usually find export options, viable import options aren’t as common. Instead, you may have to try another solution. In some cases you’ll need to set up a sync between two platforms: This doesn’t necessarily transfer the historical data you’ve already collected, but it does keep two copies of your data in two apps, starting from the moment you set it up....
For everyone from the beginner to the aficionado, SwingLogic SLX MicroSim-Home Golf MicroSimulator offers a chance to play golf during the colder winter months, or when just hanging out with some friends. It’s on sale right now as a part of our Early Black Friday Drops, so be sure to purchase it now as these prices won’t drop any lower in the coming weeks and the inventory is diminishing. The SLX MicroSim is a 4K home golf simulator that enables you to practice golf for fun and during the colder seasons....
