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As we get closer to returning to the moon, setting foot on Mars, and eventually colonizing other planets, one of the biggest questions we still face is exploring what prolonged space exposure does to the human body. Surprisingly, we know very little about the long-term effects of space radiation, but there’s a good reason for that: We haven’t really gone to deep space more than a small handful of times. In the 1960s and 1970s, several crewed NASA missions went to and from the moon, with the last Apollo mission ending in 1972....

Media Platforms Design TeamDETROIT—It should be no surprise that Toyota is hopping aboard the soon-to-blossom electric city-car segment. At last year’s New York Auto Show, Nissan announced it will have an electric city car, probably not unlike the Cube, and we drove examples of Subaru’s R1e electric microcar as well as the Mitsubishi iMiev EV. At the recent L.A. Auto Show, Mini showed an EV Mini Cooper it will have on sale soon as well....

You just can’t slow down time and space: The universe is expanding 9 percent faster than scientists ever expected, according to new measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a big task, measuring the expansion of the known universe. Naturally, it’s always been something of a time suck for the Hubble. But thanks to a new method called DASH—Drift and Shift—the telescope can now rapidly take photos of several regions of space....

How much awesome drone footage have you seen? If your answer is anything other than “not enough,” you’re wrong. Fortunately for you, here’s a compilation of world-class drone footage from this year’s New York City Drone Film Festival. View full post on YoutubeThe footage includes intense action shots, beautiful landscapes, buildings and architecture, and everything in between. There are even some shots of the drones themselves. The New York City Drone Film Festival, now in its second year, is where filmmakers from around the globe enter their drone footage for a chance to win one of several awards....

If you’re getting a new knife in any capacity for the holidays, congratulations. Knives are great for cooking, woodwork, any wide variety of enjoyable activities. But a good knife comes with a responsibility to sharpen it. YouTuber John Heisz has come up with a unique woodworking design that’s up for the job.View full post on YoutubeUsing two pieces of an old sharpening stone, Heisz makes interlocking slots for a knife to run smoothly....

Next week, a collection of countries around the world are going to make a big announcement, and no one is sure exactly what it’s going to be. However, there are some possibilities, and the most exciting one is that they are about to reveal the first-ever photograph of the event horizon of a black hole.Taking a photo of a black hole is not an easy task. Not only are black holes famous for not letting any light escape, even the nearest known black holes are very far away....

The Wild Boars are home. With a third and final effort, all 12 trapped boys and their coach have been rescued from the depths of the Tham Luang Nang No caves. The international team of 19 divers made their final 5 rescues the same way they made their first eight: slowly and carefully. The divers, three Navy SEALS, and a doctor, brought the boys up from the perilous depths two at a time, working through the cavern’s narrows turns and murky water with precision....

Back in December 2017, reports surfaced that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie. The idea that the creative mind behind Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction would soon be unleashed upon the Star Trek universe tickled a part of my Trekkie brain I didn’t know existed. But there was a second part to the rumor, something that anyone knowing Tarantino’s work would come to expect: the film would also be R-rated....

It’s been a long race for the right to build the U.S. Air Force’s next trainer jet, but the competition finally has a winner. Boeing, in partnership with Saab, has won the $9.2 billion contract to create the T-X, the plane that will train the next generation of pilots. It’s the continuation of a great week for Boeing, which, in collaboration with Euro defense firm Leonardo, just won the contract to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet of UH-60 “Huey” helicopters....

The last time you woke up feeling sick, you probably Googled your symptoms. And while Google is always tweaking its algorithms to deliver the most pertinent and reliable information, this is one area where it’s especially important they get it right.Good news, then: Google’s health information is now vetted by folks at the Mayo Clinic. Their preview knowledge graf at the top that appears after you search also includes the Mayo Clinic information....

Media Platforms Design TeamView full post on YoutubeElon Musk is just toying with us now. The geek superstar already has his hands and calendar full running a private space company that’s traveling to the International Space Station and a car company that’s taking the world and Wall Street by storm. But Musk can’t seem to help himself from indulging sci-fi-style curiosities—or trying to become Iron Man.Last month it was hyperloop. Fed up with California’s long-delayed, over-budget, slow high speed rail, Musk thought up a solution to carry people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes and then released the plans into the wild, saying essentially, “Here, somebody build this....

Today the Worldwide Leader in Sports debuted ESPN+, a new $4.99/month streaming service to broadcast sports to your phone or other mobile device. Instead of coming with a brand new app, the paid streaming service will live inside the ESPN free app for checking scores and sports new that millions of people already have.Sports has always been a sore spot for cord-cutters. With the decline of appointment viewership for broadcast TV, live games became the chief thing Americans would gather ‘round to watch at one time, and therefore the main holdout propping up the cable bundle....

Falcon Heavy successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A at 3:45 p.m. EST. About 5 million pounds of thrust from the heavy-lift rocket shook Cape Canaveral as onlookers cheered the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy. The two side boosters of the triple-core rocket successfully jettisoned after launch and flew back to landing pads at Cape Canaveral for nearly simultaneous touchdowns 1,000 feet apart. The center booster, however, failed to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean as planned, Elon Musk confirmed at a press conference after the launch....

The FDA has just approved the first digital pill, called the Abilify MyCite, that tracks whether a patient has eaten the pill or not. Each MyCite pill comes with a tiny ingestible sensor that communicates with a wearable patch placed on the patient’s skin, which itself communicates with a smartphone app. That app can then track how often the patient takes a pill and whether they’ve missed any doses.The technology is the product of research between Japanese pharmaceutical company Otsuka and Proteus Digital Health, and is designed to solve the problem of people missing medicine doses, which costs the U....

In today’s world of instant gratification, people often equate faster with better. But in our experience, satisfaction comes from doing things the right way with no shortcuts. This is how we and our friends at Knob Creek®, the leader of hard-earned, small batch whiskey, approach our respective crafts—which is why we created this three-part Build-A-Bar project in paid partnership with Knob Creek®. In the first installment, we covered how to build the bar from white oak repurposed from barn beams....

Proper attic insulation is the best way to prevent heat loss in the winter and retain cool air in the summer. So it’s time to pay close attention to what’s happening up there.If you feel like your house is leaking money via a drafty or unsealed attic, conduct an energy audit and/or use a thermal camera to find cool spots up there. It’s possible to fill those holes though, depending on the age of your insulation, you might be better off replacing your attic insulation outright instead of filling in the gaps....

The Threat: 400,000 fires each year kill almost 3000 and injure more than 14,000Where: AnywhereWhen: Most common in winter monthsMore Americans die in house fires every year than in all natural disasters combined. When in doubt, escape the building, but if you judge that you can safely mount a fire-extinguisher battle, there are two rules you need to know. Rule one: Stay 6 feet from the flames so you don’t torch the rest of your house by air-blasting a nascent fire across the room....

The frames around the cases that protect the original versions of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence are made of pure titanium coated with gold that matches the Rotunda of the National Archives Building. Inside the cases, each document sits on an individually machined aluminum platform, perforated so that moisture can reach the back of the parchment, keeping it supple. Tempered and laminated glass, calibrated to a thickness of three-eighths of an inch, closes the documents in and blocks out harmful high-frequency wavelengths of the light spectrum....

Media Platforms Design TeamThe episode “Of Human Action” kicks off with sirens wailing and police rushing to the aid of a teenage kidnapping victim. As the cops swarm the vehicle, the two suspects climb out of the car, unarmed. As one utters the prophetic, “You have no idea who you’re dealing with,” another officer begins to back up toward the ledge of the high-rise parking garage with a look of shock on his face....

November 28: At this week’s L.A. Auto Show, Mazda unveiled the newly redesigned 2019 Mazda 3, which is available as a sedan or as a neat-looking hatchback. More importantly, the car will feature Mazda’s Skyactiv-X, an engine design that merges diesel and gasoline engine technologies into something new and innovative. Back in May, we explained the engineering of the Skyactiv-X. Here’s that story: May 11, 2018: When you usually hear a knocking noise under the hood, it means a major headache and an expensive trip to the mechanic....