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I'll come clean. I've been writing this now for a few days, on and off, and it's been scrapped and rewritten more than a few times as well. See, the problem isn't the Apple Vision Pro, it's me. I haven't had a chance to spend any time with Apple's first foray into the spatial computing world because I live in the wrong part of the world and those of us outside the United States will have to wait a little while longer before we get to see what all the fuss is about. But I've been watching from afar. Engorging myself with…

As the saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover, but how about fore-edge paintings? Well, in this case, Maisie Matilda does a great job of selling them by adding magical drawings to literary classics such as The Lord of Rings trilogy, Dune trilogy, Harry Potter series, and others.Maisie's drawings haven't gone unnoticed, and as of today, the artist has over 600K followers on Instagram and 1 million on TikTok. Maisie draws on all the sides of the books and showcases the final result in a video format. Her detailed…

Featured in this image from the James Webb Space Telescope is Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211), a bipolar jet travelling through interstellar space at supersonic speeds. At roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Perseus, the object is one of the youngest and nearest protostellar outflows, making it an ideal target for JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)JWST’s detailed infrared image of HH 211 uncovers the dynamics of a young protostar’s outflows, offering new…

Towards the end of last year, the winners of the 16th edition of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards (AmSIA) were announced at the NEMO Science Museum. This competition — hosted by the Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA) — highlights three innovative ideas from the Netherlands each year. These are split into three categories: health, society, and environment & climate. Beyond simply spotlighting the fascinating minds behind these inventions, the event also helps make them a…

The rainbow looks different to a human than it does to a honeybee or a zebra finch. That’s because these animals can see colors that we humans simply can’t. Now scientists have developed a new video recording and analysis technique to better understand how the world looks through the eyes of other species. The accurate and relatively inexpensive method, described in a study published on January 23 in PLOS Biology, is already offering biologists surprising discoveries about the lives of different species.Humans have three…

NBC’s decision to stream the NFL Wild Card game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins may stand as a pivotal moment in TV history.The Saturday game, which the Chiefs won 26-7, was exclusively streamed in most of the country on NBCUniversal‘s direct-to-consumer service Peacock, which with 30 million subscribers has struggled to reach profitability.Based on the preliminary ratings for the game, Peacock likely saw a surge in signups and first-time users. The game averaged 23 million viewers, up 6% from…

It's official: 2023 was Earth's hottest year ever recorded, beating the previous record set in 2016 by a huge margin.Last year was also the first in which the world was close to 1.5°C (1.48°C) hotter than the pre-industrial average (1850-1900). We are brushing against the threshold scientists urged us to limit long-term warming to.Some scientists, including former Nasa climatologist James Hansen, predict 2024 will be humanity's first year beyond 1.5°C. As what were once dire warnings from climate experts become our…

Mesmerizing footage captures the incredible mom powers of a black-eyed squid as she hauls thousands of eggs through the ocean, for many months, not once letting go. Not even to feed."Brooding squid cannot swim very quickly, and may be easy prey for deep-diving marine mammals," explains the Schmidt Ocean Institute who captured the rare footage off the coast of Costa Rica, during their recent OctoOdyssey dive. Unlike most squids, Gonatus onyx, with its distinct big, white-rimmed black eyes, is one of only two known…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGlynis Johns fans on social media have reacted to the actor’s death aged 100 by paying tribute to the impact her performance of a feminist anthem had on their political awakenings.“Sister Suffragette” was composed by songwriters The Sherman Brothers for Johns to perform in character as Mrs Banks in Disney’s 1964 musical Mary Poppins.In their autobiography Walt’s Time, the brothers…

Artist’s impression of the different layers inside a massive neutron star, with the red circle representing a sizable quark-matter core. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSCNew theoretical analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter between 80 and 90 percent. The result was reached through massive supercomputer runs utilizing Bayesian statistical inference.Neutron star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day Universe, with as much as two solar…