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A study utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct evidence that ultraviolet “winds” from nearby massive stars can cause rapid mass loss in young star protoplanetary disks through FUV-driven photoevaporation. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comResearch utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope highlights the destructive power of ultraviolet “winds” on the gas in protoplanetary disks surrounding young stars, shedding light on the intricate dynamics that limit the formation of gas giants…

A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth’s oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to zoom in and observe the disk.What they discovered is that the protoplanetary disk around the baby star HL Tauri has more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. In fact, the water found in the disk could fill the Earth’s oceans a total of three times. The…

Credit: Inventiones mathematicae (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s00222-023-01198-1 Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal, likes to ask. Polterovich uses spectral geometry, a branch of mathematics, to understand physical phenomena involving wave propagation.…

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy. I’m briefly startled by the drive’s low mechanical whirring — a warm, ambient background score that instantly transports me back to my childhood. Some of my first painfully preteen journals were hidden poorly on nondescript floppies just like this one. I click on the disk’s sole file, an MP3 titled “Inability to…

Photo: nikkytok / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)There’s good news if you’re running out of space on your Google account. Researchers from Scientists from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology just figured out how to fit up to a petabit of data onto an optical disk by storing information in 3D. In other words, that’s 125,000 gigabytes on a single DVD-sized disk, or what experts refer to as a “big boy.”What Drew Noomi Rapace to Constellation?Optical disks like DVDs and Blu-rays are cheap and durable but…

If you have an account on your Mac that’s no longer used and is taking up valuable disk space, you can remove it in just a few steps. Our guide will take you through everything you need to do to delete a user on a Mac quickly and easily. There are plenty of other changes you can make to improve your Mac — if you want to use Split View on a Mac or learn some handy trackpad gestures, we’ve got you covered. But for now, let's set about deleting a user on your Mac. Alex Blake / Digital Trends…

You think you know someone, then you see them in a slightly different way and BAM, they surprise you. I'm not talking about other people of course, I'm talking about a fabulous star that has been studied and imaged a gazillion times.Beta Pictoris has been revealed by many telescopes, even Hubble, to be home to the most amazing disk. Enter James Webb Space Telescope and WALLOP, with its increased sensitivity and instrumentation a new, exciting feature emerges.This image from Webb's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the…

Astronomers have found early ring and spiral structures in young planetary disks, indicating that planet formation begins much earlier than previously thought. This groundbreaking discovery, revealed through ALMA data, challenges existing models of planet formation and suggests a much faster timeline for the emergence of planetary structures. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comEarly Evolution of Planetary Disk Structures Seen for the First TimePlanet formation may occur much more rapidly than previously…

Let’s get the obvious talking point out of the way: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet are divisive games. Generation IX has caught a lot of heat for its glitches and lack of polish, but despite that, I personally have still had fun with these games. So someone like me should love The Indigo Disk, right? Let me explain: here at Destructoid, we’ve played hot potato with Pokémon review duties. CJ Andriessen and Eric Van Allen reviewed Pokémon Violet and Scarlet respectively, each arriving at the same “6/10” score. And later, the…

There has always been a select few Pokémon that have more obscure ways to get them to evolve. In the early games, the trickiest ways revolved around trading, but as the generations passed, new and fourth-wall-breaking methods began creeping in. Inkay was one of the most tricky to evolve when it debuted on the 3DS, but now that it’s back in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk. Considering we’re no longer in the two-screen system days, the old evolution method had to be tweaked for the new hardware. Whether you…