Earlier this month, Foxtrot Alpha brought you an exclusive analysis of new satellite images that show the construction of a massive new hangar in a remote part of Area 51. Now, high resolution panoramic photos have emerged of the base confirming just how monstrous this new hangar truly is.

Shot very recently from Tikaboo Peak, some 26 miles from the base itself, and posted over at Dreamland Resort, these high-resolution panoramas  … Read More → "New panoramic images show Area 51’s new mystery hangar is gigantic"

There’s not a lot of downtime for the astronauts on the International Space Station. When they’re not busy running scientific experiments, they’re getting in some exercise or doing space walks. But luckily for the earthbound, they make time to snap gorgeous photos of our planet in a way we’d otherwise never get to see them, and then post those photos on Twitter.

< … Read More → "An interactive map of photos of Earth tweeted by astronauts"

CaptainCodeman asks:

I recently had a job interview in which they gave me an hour to write some real code. It wasn’t a huge amount, probably less than 100 lines. After about 45 minutes, I compiled, ran it, and got it to work. I may have spent 5-10 … Read More → "Is there a benefit to compiling your code as you go?"

Browsing through an Ikea catalog is basically a modern adult’s version of playing make-believe, letting you imagine just how gorgeous your apartment will never be. And it turns out, an Ikea catalog is even further from reality than you may have already thought: 75 percent of its product images are now CG. The surprising fact was noted by the The Computer Graphics Society, which … Read More → "Ikea’s catalog now uses 75 percent computer generated imagery"

Email is one of those things that’s just a part of your life, period. Most of us know someone who has closed their Facebook account or refused to join in the first place in a little foot-stomping stand by their ego, and you might even know someone who is thrilled with themselves for not owning a smartphone.

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Julia Belluz created the infographic below to compare how much money is donated to fight various disease and how many people in the USA die from those same diseases for an article in Vox. 

The graphic has since developed a bit of a life of its own. Belluz uses it to critique celebrity-driven … Read More → "Infographic shows the differences between the diseases we donate to, and the diseases that kill us"

Neat!

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We’ve seen drones used for all sorts of things from film production to package delivery. Now, it seems Disney may be looking to leverage the aerial vehicles for its theme parks. The company has applied for three patents that employ the remote-controlled gadgets for floating projection displays and airborne marionettes. That latter option is meant to boost hovering parade characters that have been limited to gas-filled balloons with little mobility, while … Read More → "Disney’s drone research eyes better parades and floating screens"

In one of his first forays into cinema science, Hasson found that when people watch a clip from the classic Western,The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, activity in several brain areas rises and falls at the same time in different individuals. The synched up brain regions included the primary auditory and visual cortex, as well as more specialized regions like the fusiform face area, which is important for (you guessed … Read More → "How movies synchronize the brains of an audience"

This beautiful purple jewel is an artist rendition of W0855—a Jupiter-sized brown dwarf 7.3 light years from Earth. If the scientists who just published a new paper on its composition are right, it’s the first object outside the solar system in which we have observed water clouds—an amazing … Read More → "Scientists find water clouds outside the solar system for the first time"