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Monster Machines: The SkyRanger Flies In The Face Of Inclement Weather
Quadcopters have become a popular choice for aerial surveillance tasks, in both the public and private sectors, thanks to their portability and ease of use. The problem is their diminutive nature also limits where and when they can fly — high winds can knock them clear out of the air. The new SkyRanger sUAS, however, is powerful enough to lift off in conditions that would ground other drones.
The How And Why Of All That Beautiful Space Photography
Space is a gorgeous place. Considering we’ve only seen an infinitesimal amount of it, it makes you wonder what other lovelies it has in store for our eyes — and humanity as a whole. But how do we go about capturing all these amazing images of galaxies, nebulae and other phenomenon in the first place?
Cockroaches Are Evolving To Avoid Poison, Will Rule Us All
Think twice before stomping the lights out of the next cockroach you come across — you’re going to want them to return the favour after the takeover. Thanks to new research on this most vexatious blight of mankind, we can now say more or less definitively that the despised cockroach will, in fact, come to rule us all. Because, apparently, they’re developing the ability to outsmart our attempts at poisoning them dead.
It Sure Looks Beautiful Inside The Ring Nebula
The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas. These new images, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, reveal that the glowing gas shroud is actually a rather different shape to what’s previously been observed.
How Do A Building’s Guts Help It Weather A Tornado?
When a big funnel of destruction touches down, it puts everything that’s about ground in instant trouble. But exactly how much trouble actually depends a lot on construction, and not just things like structural reinforcement: pretty standard, inherent things like the size of the rooms.
Bowling With God: Vint Cerf Talks Time Travel, Porn And Web Addiction
They say that success has many parents but failure is an orphan. Judged by that standard — or any other — the internet is a success. Al Gore invented it. Tim Berners-Lee got a knighthood out of it. Everyone was using it before it was cool. But only two men have ever borne the title “Father of the Internet”. One is the late computer scientist Bob Kahn. The other is Vint Cerf.
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