It was a quiet race for the win, but there was plenty of action for second and third. Mexico City is one of the more unusual places that Formula 1 races, and it’s all thanks to altitude. The city sits at than 7,350 feet (2,240 m) above sea level,…
Many Turing mechanism models yield too-perfect patterns; varying cell sizes vastly improves the results. A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport to self-assemble into a hexagonal pattern. Credit: Siamak Mirfendereski and Ankur Gupta/CU Boulder A mixture of two types of pigment-producing cells undergoes diffusiophoretic transport…
Storm reached sustained winds of 160 mph on Monday morning. Hurricane Melissa will make landfall in southern Jamaica less than 24 hours from now, and it is likely to be the most catastrophic storm in the Caribbean island’s history. As it crawled across the northern Caribbean Sea on Monday…
Marine mammals are being forced into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn. For millennia, some of the world’s largest filter-feeding whales, including humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales, have undertaken some of the longest migrations on earth to travel between their warm breeding grounds in the tropics to…
A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle. The outage that hit Amazon Web Services and took out vital services worldwide was the result of a single failure that cascaded from system to system within Amazon’s sprawling network, according to a…
If we ID the DNA for a great antibody, anyone can now make it. One of the things that emerging diseases, including the COVID and Zika pandemics, have taught us is that it’s tough to keep up with infectious diseases in the modern world. Things like air travel can…
This e-reader has a color screen and 5G. Digital reading devices like the Kindle have existed for almost 20 years, and the standard eReader form factor has hardly changed at all. Amazon, Boox, and a few other companies have offered larger E Ink screens, but how about something smaller?…
The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic. Earlier this month, Tesla rolled out a new firmware update that added a pair of new driving modes for the controversial full self-driving (FSD) feature. One, called “Sloth,” relaxes acceleration and stays in its lane.…
Investors sued Rivian claiming it knew prices had to rise after its IPO. Electric vehicle startup Rivian announced on Thursday that it has settled a lawsuit with some of its investors. The company continues to deny allegations of making “materially untrue” statements during its inial public offering but says…
A handful of bat species hunt birds, and new sensor data tells us how. There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which…
