The Arctic ice cap is on course for a record-breaking melt session following a summer of unstable conditions, says the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
“The numbers are coming in and we are looking at them with a sense of amazement,” the center’s director Mark Serrez said. “If the melt were to just suddenly stop today, we would be at the third … Read More → "Arctic ice set for record-breaking summer melt"
… Read More → "How to avoid the inevitable feeling that your job sucks"It’s inevitable. After enough time at any job, you have a day that really sucks. Then, eventually, maybe another. And another. Suddenly the job you loved starts to feel like, well, work. And bad work at that. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Special relativity has changed the way we think about time and the order of events. Einstein famously showed that two events can look simultaneous to one observer but not to another. In fact, it’s possible to make two spatially separated events appear in any order by choosing to view them from different frames of reference .
But what of three or more events? “Do all possible time orderings occur in some frame or … Read More → "Special relativity and the curious physics of chronology"
75 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, people are still looking for her. In fact, just last month, a search team started a search expedition only to leave without discovering Amelia’s wreckage. Or so they thought. The team recently took a closer look at the underwater images they captured and now think they may have found her.
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You just gotta watch for yourself. (Thanks Ari!)
… Read More → "Parkour dog"More than 2 million lines of software code drove NASA’s successful Rover Curiosity landing on Mars. And, for the last two years, every single line was analyzed and scrubbed by static analysis products from Coverity, Grammatech, Semmle, and Uno.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used all of the aforementioned products plus a GCC compiler and a homegrown tool to comb through the software, looking for errors or possible errors.
One of the tricky things about checking all that code & … Read More → "NASA scrubbed Mars Rover code clean — over and over"
This isn’t your childhood Hot Wheels slot car track — that was okay when you were a kid. This slot car racing track, built by Slot Mods, is for the big boys and girls. You see,adults don’t play with their toy cars on the floor, they race them on top of detailed slot tracks modded on old defunct 1969 Camaros. Welcome to … Read More → "Coolest slot car racing track sits on top of a real 1969 Camaro"
What makes M.C. Escher’s drawings so fascinating? The fact that they’re incredibly realistic drawings of impossible structures, right? Apparently, they’re not as impossible as they seem. Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology are working on designing and building 3D structures of M.C. Escher’s drawings, bringing to life what is, technically, impossible.
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