Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole’s rotation. Sgr A* is the name we’ve given to the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way. We’ve known about its presence since the 1970s but only managed to…
Tanks with defensive tech for shooting down drones are still proving vulnerable. Russian tanks have entered battle for the first time with a new active protection system designed to shoot down incoming drones. But the technology’s recent combat debut in Ukraine met with only limited success—Ukrainian drones still destroyed…
“A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle.” SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet. The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean intact after flying halfway around the world from…
Peacock’s quarterly profitability isn’t guaranteed. For the fourth time in four years, Peacock has raised its prices. The Select plan, which has ads and doesn’t include sports, movies, or Peacock originals, went from $8/month to $9/month. The monthly fee for the standard ad plan (Premium) went from $11/month to…
Fairphone sells components like the USB port and screen, all swappable with a single torx driver. As smartphone designs have become more refined, they’ve also become less repairable. Fairphone bucks that trend, offering devices that can be fully disassembled and serviced using a single screwdriver. But its devices were…
The American automaker returns to the top category of endurance racing next year. The car that Ford hopes will return it to overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans made its unofficial debut this week. Ford sent us some pictures of the still-unnamed car conducting its first…
New study finds that the tusks have not one but two spirals, twisting in opposite directions. CT scan of a narwhal tusk. Credit: Adrian Rodriguez Palomo/CC BY-NC CT scan of a narwhal tusk. Credit: Adrian Rodriguez Palomo/CC BY-NC Narwhals are toothed whales, renowned for their distinctive straight, spiraling tusks,…
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link. It’s not every day that attackers can force a frontier AI model to cough up user passwords and other sensitive data without user confirmation. That’s exactly what researchers recently did to Microsoft 365 Copilot for…
Research shows heat amplifies the dangers of pesticides. For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of pesticides, a growing body of research shows. Heat stresses the body, making it more vulnerable to pesticides and other toxicants, and protective clothing worn in the…
Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments. Egypt’s Theban necropolis holds over 400 tombs, a rich resource for archaeologists eager to learn more about that region’s ancient history. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology outlines how Egyptian…
