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Enlarge / Artist’s conception of a blob of hot matter orbiting close to surface of a black hole. At this distance, its orbit is influenced by the black hole’s spin. (credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) While black holes themselves swallow any light beyond their event horizon, the area outside the event horizon tends to emit lots of […]
Enlarge / Orion is a military drone that can fly for five days with 1,000 pounds of payload. Aurora says it can perform surveillance missions 3,000 miles from home base. (credit: Aurora) It looks like the drama surrounding Google’s controversial involvement in Project Maven is coming to an end. Yet another report from Gizmodo on […]
STATE-of-the-art brain imaging technology has provided new clues about memory loss in older people that may help to diagnose dementia earlier. Currently there are no good ways to determine which memory lapses are normal parts of ageing and which may signal the early stages of a severe disorder such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Enlarge / No, not those ghosts. (credit: Eli Christman) For the longest time, imaging was probably the most boring subject imaginable. Unless you were excited about comparing various mass-produced, brand-name lenses, there wasn’t much to talk about. That changed briefly with the invention of the laser, but the actual imaging technology was still… yeah, boring. […]
Enlarge / With the right type of processing, frosted glass can actually improve imaging. (credit: Steve K / Flickr) It’s probably not often that someone walks into your office and says, “I want you to make me a finely engineered device that makes everything worse.” Yet that seems to be a solution to creating images […]
Preserving and restoring art is a very tricky business. Trying to maintain the balance between original work and repairing damage is difficult and oftentimes methods aren’t always agreed upon by members of the art community. This has been seen over and over again with works like Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper and Michelangelo’s Sistine […]
