We’ve got an exciting mix of product previews this week, including a super aero helmet from Ekoi as worn by the pros, a new high-spec turbo trainer from Cycplus, best known for their electric mini pumps, a summer jersey from Gorewear, a lightweight and aero bike from Merida with slide technology and some camo shoes … Read more
Plants have been observed to interact with their environment in ways that one scientist has claimed prove they are conscious. Paco Calvo, a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, has been researching plant intelligence and problem solving for years, discovering that the mimosa seems to ‘learn from experience’ when it stops folding. “In … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Asian shares advanced on Tuesday to defy a mixed day on Wall Street as speculation mounted that the tech sector’s rally may be ending. Most Read by Bloomberg Shares in Japan outperformed the region, climbing as much as 1.5%. U.S. stock contracts rose in Asian trade as various U.S. non-technical sectors advanced on … Read more
HELSINKI – China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft is on its way to Earth to deliver samples collected from the far side of the Moon. The Chang’e-6 service module is likely to fire its engines for a trans-Earth injection around June 21. The spacecraft is now in the final leg of its complex, 53-day journey that includes a … Read more
New Jersey Transit service was disrupted once again Monday evening, with travel suspended in and out of Pennsylvania Station for nearly an hour due to a report of a problem with Amtrak overhead wires in one of the Hudson River tunnels. Service was suspended at 6:37 p.m. and resumed shortly before 7:30 p.m., but trains … Read more
Hong Kong CNN – Debris from a suspected Chinese missile was seen falling to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness. Dramatic footage emerged online shortly … Read more
In this image of the Serpentine Nebula from the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a cluster of protostellar outflows lined up within a small region (upper left corner). In Webb’s image, these jets are signified by bright clustered streaks that appear red, which are shock waves from the … Read more
It may sound like fantasy, but as darkness approached – and with it an extremely rare lunar event – it felt like the beasts and birds of Stonehenge sensed something strange was happening. The song of the cabbages and the flight of the stars seemed particularly energetic; rabbits, animals with a mythical connection to the … Read more
A historic stock split is coming for this fast favorite. High-profile stock splits are all the rage, it seems. Just days later Nvidia split its shares 10-for-1, Broadcom announced that he would follow suit. In fact, some big names are choosing to share theirs this summer. After Nvidia’s stock split, perhaps the most anticipated is … Read more
The cosmic enigma created by evidence of seemingly massive black holes in the very early universe continues to deepen. JWST observations of one such anomaly, known as J1120+0641, show that the once-favored explanation for how these objects could emit so much light so quickly after the Big Bang is unlikely, forcing astronomers to try again. … Read more