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What makes Jordan Peele one of the best horror directors (whether he agrees with that or not) is that he knows horror films are all about the spectacle. You may be afraid of what you are about to see, but it does not stop you from wanting to take a closer look. Peele's latest terrifying vision Nope deals with the threat of flying saucers, and here is why one such saucer was scary enough for the horror director to drop an f-bomb describing it.Classic sci-fi films like The Day the Earth Stood Still or Close Encounters of…

An American Airlines Boeing 737-800, equipped with radar altimeters that may conflict with telecom 5G technology, can be seen flying 500 feet above the ground while on final approach to land at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York, U.S., January 6, 2022.Bryan Woolston | ReutersThe leaders of the country's biggest airlines learned a hard lesson this summer: It's easier to make plans than to keep them.The three biggest U.S. carriers — Delta, United and American — are dialing back their flight-growth ambitions, an…

If autonomous drones and flying taxis are going to thrive, they'll need AI that can handle a wide range of conditions — and Microsoft thinks it can help build that AI. The company has unveiled a Project AirSim platform that helps manufacturers create, train and test the algorithms guiding autonomous aircraft. The Azure-based technology has virtual vehicles fly millions of flights through detailed simulations in a matter of seconds, gauging their ability to handle different obstacles and weather conditions. A drone maker…

Pokemon Go is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a celebration event featuring Flying Pikachu with a 5-shaped balloon, Darumaka, and more. The special event will last till July 15 and give Pokemon Go players a higher chance to encounter and catch a Flying Pikachu as well as a Shiny Darumaka. Players will also get to experience a host of features and changes as part of the celebration event along with some bonuses. The Pokemon Go team has also shared a list of improvements they have made to Pokemon Go since its…

This summer was supposed to mark the rebirth of commercial aviation after two years of travel restrictions left the industry nearly in hibernation.Instead, it is turning into one of the most chaotic travel seasons in decades.Flights are being canceled, and delays are becoming chronic. Baggage is getting lost. Hourslong waits for check-in, luggage drop-off and security have exasperated travelers. It’s not just one thing going wrong. The system is under strain or breaking down at every link in the chain, and…

It was only supposed to fly five times. Yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.The tiny helicopter has become the regular travel companion of the rover Perseverance, whose core mission is to seek signs of ancient life on Mars."Everything is working so well," said Josh Ravich, the head of Ingenuity's mechanical engineering team. "We're doing better on the…

An asteroid named 2021 NY1 could come close to hitting the Earth this month. The asteroid has been classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It has also been classified as a near-Earth object owing to its predicted close pass by our planet. It is estimated to pass within 1,498,113km of the Earth sometime around September 22, 2021. The asteroid is estimated to fly by at a speed of 9.35kmps when it inches in towards Earth. It is a small- to average-size asteroid, estimated…

Scientists in Chile's Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called "flying dragon," a Jurassic-era dinosaur previously known only to the northern hemisphere.The flying reptile belonged to a group of early pterosaurs that roamed the earth 160 million years ago. It had a long pointed tail, wings and sharp, outward pointing teeth.The beast's fossil remains were discovered by Osvaldo Rojas, director of the Atacama Desert Museum of Natural History and Culture, and then further investigated by scientists at…

Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, US, have designed electronic microchips that can fly. These flying microchips, or microfliers, are the size of a sand grain and can fly without any motor or engine, much like a maple leaf or air-borne seeds of plants. These are the smallest-ever human-made flying structures. The microflier's aerodynamics is designed so that it falls in a stabilised way at a slow velocity. This ensures that it stays airborne for a longer time and disperses over a broad area.…

The European Space Agency (ESA), an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states, has shared on Instagram a small video clip of an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) running on a treadmill. Yes, you read that right. You must be wondering how an astronaut stayed stable in microgravity. Well, there's always a way.In the clip, the astronaut, Thomas Pesquet, had bungee cords attached to him and they ensured he didn't fly away from the treadmill. What's also remarkable is that the astronaut appears to…