On Thursday, the inaugural Luminar Bug Photography Awards announced its winners. The winning images, which render insects in exquisite detail, bring a whole new meaning to the term “close-up.” Mofeed...
This December 16 and 17, we’re hosting our very first TC Sessions: Space event. It’ll be a virtual, live-streamed two-day show, including conversations with some of the best and brightest...
Asteroid Bennu is ready for its close-up. On Tuesday, at around 6:12 pm, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will attempt to take a tiny piece of Bennu to return to Earth, a...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is about to touch down on an asteroid for a smash-and-grab mission, and you can follow its progress live — kind of. The craft is scheduled to...
Intel detailed today its contribution to PhiSat-1, a new tiny small satellite that was launched into sun-synchronous orbit on September 2. PhiSat-1 has a new kind of hyperspectral-thermal camera on...
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced 2020's Weather Photographer of the Year, providing a ton of gorgeous options for new desktop backgrounds. If we can't go outside due to a...
The urban legend that Hostess Twinkies last forever if left unopened is one of the more pervasive food myths surrounding preservatives, shelf life, and snacks that might survive the apocalypse. ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope grabbed a beautiful, haunting image of a gaseous "stellar nursery" that the space agencies published Friday. In this image we can see what's known as...
Spaghettification sounds like a particularly unpleasant thing to happen to pretty much anything that isn't a lump of pasta dough. Now imagine it happening to a star. That’s precisely what...
This year, Cornell University released three new apple varieties: the scab-resistant Cordera, the crisp and mild Pink Luster, and the complexly flavored Firecracker. Collectively, they're a culmination of decades of...
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