This Is The First-Ever Image Of The Event Horizon Of A Black Hole
In April 2017, eight radio telescopes around the globe all turned to look in the same direction. Their goal was an ambitious one: to image the shadow of the event …
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This 29-Year-Old Computer Scientist Helped Bring Us The First Image of a Black Hole
Katherine Bouman had a secret: An algorithm she’d developed had stitched together a picture of a black hole. She told nobody except her colleagues. Until today. That’s when Event Horizon …
NASA Is Paying Volunteers £14,000 to Watch TV in Bed for Two Months
If parting with your bed every morning is the hardest part of your day then rejoice, NASA is offering a job where all you do is lie down. You could …
The City of Miami Just Banned the Use of Glyphosate Containing Herbicides
There are growing concerns about both the safety and proliferation of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller. Those concerns are part of the reason that the city of Miami passed a unanimous …
These ‘Sea Nomads’ Are The First Known Humans to Have a Genetic Adaptation to Diving
The deepest dive recorded by the free-diving Bajau Laut people of Southeast Asia was to an impressive 79 metres (259 feet), and the longest time spent underwater by them was …