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We may be one step closer to answer one of the many questions surrounding Uranus and its 27 moons. According to a new study, data captured by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft has revealed that four of Uranus’ five major moons could be hiding oceans of liquid water within them. NASA notes that previously it was believed that Uranus’ five largest moons, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, and Miranda were too small to reliably retain enough heat to keep an internal ocean from freezing. However, the new study, which…

This time, the accusation against Apple is that it hid defective batteries in millions of iPhones by throttling them, according to a report by Reuters. The case has been filed by Justin Gutmann who is known as the consumer champion in the United Kingdom, and the lawsuit amounts to 1.6 billion pounds including interest. Apple has been accused of hiding issues with batteries calling them defective, and instead slowed down iPhones through software updates.  Apple is however denying the claims saying that most of the iPhone…

While analyzing the genomes of single-celled microbes, a team of researchers made a startling discovery: Thousands of previously unknown viruses were "hidden" within the microbes' DNA.The researchers found DNA from more than 30,000 viruses built into genomes of various single-celled microbes, they report in a new study. They explain that viral DNA might enable a host cell to replicate complete, functional viruses."We were very surprised by how many viruses we found through this analysis," says lead author Christopher…

Explorers have uncovered the existence of a secret chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Once the tallest human-made structure on Earth, the Great Pyramid has fascinated scholars, scientists, and explorers for thousands of years. Despite all the exploration of the structure, the pyramid remains a bit of a mystery. This newly discovered chamber is yet another slice of that mystery. A layer that scientists are trying to peel away using cosmic-ray muon detection. They cover this secret chamber in the Great…

Immortals of Aveum was the latest game to immediately spark my interest with a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, but after a cinematic trailer teased its existence, the studio behind it immediately went radio silent. Even though the EA Original is set to launch this year, developer Ascendant Studios has kept details about its upcoming first-person shooter close to the chest these past few months. I finally got a chance to see what the game looks like in action during a preview event, and it appears to…

Astronomers are currently searching for signs of life in the "habitable zones" of nearby stars, which is defined as the band around a star where liquid water can potentially exist.But a recent paper argues that we need to take a more nuanced and careful approach, based not on the potential for life, but the potential for computation.One way to define life itself is as a set of computations that act on information. The information is stored in DNA and the computations are performed by various proteins. The ability to…

A game involving n players in a circular field with n hiding spots. The ith player starts from the hiding spot given by the expression ((k * i * i + l * i + m) % n) and keeps moving until they find a spot to hide. Determine the sum of all the hiding spots that each player skips over before finding an unoccupied spot.Examples:Input: n = 47, k = 0, l = 1, m = 0Output: 0Explanation:For each i, player i arrives at the hiding spot i, and as it is empty, it hides there. No collisions.Input: n = 47, X = 0, Y = 0, Z = 42Output:…

3-Minutes PandasWhat should we do to see the entire printed dataframe after the execution of a Python script?Photo by Pascal Müller on UnsplashSometimes running through a Python script without reporting any errors is not the only task of the debugging process. We need to make sure the functions are executed as expected. It’s a typical step in the exploratory data analysis to check how the data looks like before and after some specific data processing.So, we need to print out some data frames or essential variables during…

A group of scientists has discovered what they believe to be rogue planets hidden in data captured between 2006 and 2014. The new planets are what astronomers refer to as “free-floating planets” — a population of planets that are poorly defined. According to a new paper, data captured during the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) II Gravitational Microlensing Survey could hide free-floating planets, highlighting the need for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Image source:…

Tiny glass Moon beads could be hiding a reservoir of water that astronauts can tap into when we send them back to the Moon. According to a new paper published in Nature Geoscience, tiny silicate glass beads discovered on the Moon’s surface are perfect for creating hidden troves of water on our lunar satellite. The paper is based on findings made by China’s Chang’e 5 rover, which landed on the Moon in December 2020. The rover then spent two weeks exploring the Moon, even digging up almost four pounds of…