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A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it. No, no, Snap decided that the next evolution in the art of taking pictures of yourself would involve a flying robot. Lisa Frankenstein's Crew on Casting the Right Stars So it launched the Pixy, a tiny yellow drone designed to follow you around and take cute candids of you while you did stuff. The product, which retailed between $185 and…

By U.S. Department of Energy January 1, 2024Quark gluon plasma (QGP) is a unique state of matter produced by colliding heavy nuclei in laboratories, leading to the creation of a QGP fireball. This fireball undergoes expansion and cooling, eventually forming subatomic particles that are key to understanding QGP. New research using the maximum entropy principle has led to advancements in understanding the transition from QGP to hadronized states and identifying critical points in quantum chromodynamics. Credit:…

Fireballs were spotted in the sky around 4 a.m. Thursday morning, leaving Southwest Florida residents confused and concerned. Many were unsure what had created the fireballs, with some blaming asteroids, Chinese spy balloons, and even drones. According to astronomers, the fireballs were created by the remains of a Chinese rocket burning up on reentry. The rocket in question was launched on March 22 and is believed to have carried Chinese satellites into orbit. The fireballs that appeared as a massive glow over…

Over the weekend, footage of bright, flashing streaks of light that blazed across the sky over Sacramento, California, went viral, with most people wondering whether it was a meteor or a UFO. As it turns out, it was neither. Instead, the mysterious objects ended up being some fallen space junk that was once attached to the International Space Station (ISS).On Friday, people in Sacramento were treated to the rare sight of roughly ten fireballs flying overhead in the skies. The traveling fireworks were even captured by…

Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared, high-resolution image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. A pair of UCLA-led studies demonstrate some of the scientific advances that the telescope is making possible. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScIAstrophysicists shed light on how hydrogen fog burned away after the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Big Bang</div><div…

Skywatchers will have a chance to see one of the best meteor showers of the year. The Taurid meteor shower will be visible throughout the coming week, with a possibility of bright meteors being visible as well. Here’s what you need to know so you don’t miss out. Each year, a broad field of debris left behind by the comet Encke passes by the Earth, with some of that debris interacting with our atmosphere. This creates what we have come to know as the Taurid meteor shower. This annual event is often one of the…

New Zealand may seem to be under meteor bombardment at the moment. After a huge meteor exploded above the sea near Wellington on July 7, creating a sonic boom that could be heard across the bottom of the South Island, a smaller fireball was captured two weeks later above Canterbury.  Fireballs Aotearoa, a collaboration between astronomers and citizen scientists which aims to recover freshly fallen meteorites, has received a lot of questions about these events. One of the most frequent is about the bright green color, and…

The King of the Koopas gets a LEGO makeover Making LEGO sets that are designed with adults in mind is one of the best decisions the company ever made, because LEGO has released some really awesome, complex builds over the past few years. Just in their Nintendo collaboration alone, which debuted in 2020, they gave us the buildable NES and the “?” block with different levels from Super Mario 64 on the inside. LEGO’s newest release is another banger in the Mario-themed line: a giant Bowser that shoots fireballs. I have to…

Source: LEGO Group / Nintendo LEGO Mario building kits have been popular ever since they first showed up on store shelves in 2020. We've gotten a LEGO Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach who all have computers inside and displays that make symbols appear on their chest and allow them to make different expressions. But now, we're finally getting The Mighty Bowser building kit to join our heroes. Unlike the other three figures, Bowser does not have a display anywhere on his body. However, he does offer buttons on his…