Recordbreaking

Hold on to your hats as the Mars helicopter takes us on another ride over the Red Planet. NASA released new footage of the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight, revealing the tiny rotorcraft’s longest and fastest excursion yet.On April 18, NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity covered a distance of 2,310 feet (704 meters) at a speed of 12 miles per hour (5.5 meters per second). The video from the flight was released Friday, as the team currently prepares for a29th flight on Mars.“For our record-breaking flight, Ingenuity’s…

via Paramount Much was made of The Suicide Squad giving Sylvester Stallone the unique distinction of having a movie open at the top of the domestic box office in every decade since the 1970s, but Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick have ensured in spectacular style that the longtime A-lister won’t be too far behind Sly’s six-decade streak. What arguably makes it even more impressive is that Cruise has reigned as one of the industry’s biggest stars for the entirety of that duration, whereas it’d be more than fair…

As reported by Windows Central, SK Hynix has released a brand new PCIe Gen 4 SSD known as the Platinum P41, featuring capacities of up to 2TB and sequential speeds of up to 7000MB. However, its most prominent feature is its incredibly fast random read and write speeds of 1,400,000 IOPS and 1,400,000 IOPS respectively. Making the P41 one of the fastest SSDs on the market in terms of random read and write performance.For some perspective, the fastest SSD we've tested so far (like the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB) has peaked at…

What's in a star? Well, if you're a highly evolved specimen nearing the end of its life named HD 222925, rather a heck of a lot, actually.Scientists have conducted an analysis of this dim object, and identified 65 separate elements. That's the most elements ever found in a single object outside the Solar System, and most of them are heavy elements from the bottom of the periodic table, rarely found in stars.  Since these elements can only form in extremely energetic events such as supernovae or neutron star mergers, via…

Annabel Steadman was a 22-year-old trainee solicitor commuting between London and Oxford when she had a vision of a unicorn. “I wasn’t thinking about writing a book at all. It just kind of came into my head as I was walking along,” she says. “I saw this image of a unicorn, with a boy riding it. And I immediately knew that it wasn’t the fluffy kind that were starting to come into the shops at that time.”Eight years later, she is about to launch a series of novels, the first three of which secured an eye-watering…

The world of particle physics has been on shaky ground lately. For years, researchers have been scrutinizing particles to make sure that the rules we use to explain the Universe hold up – with troublingly inconsistent results.  To add to the endeavor, physicists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have now measured the heaviest known elementary particle with an unprecedented amount of precision.In a much-needed win for the Standard Model of particle physics – the set of rules that predict the behavior of all particles…

NASA will run a live broadcast of the return to Earth of American astronaut Mark Vande Hei after a record-breaking 355-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Along with Vande Hei, two Russian cosmonauts — Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov — will also touch down in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz MS-19 capsule on March 30. The Soyuz will undock from the Rassvet module, heading for a parachute-assisted landing, NASA said. On March 15, Vande Hei has surpassed Scott Kelly's previously held record of 340…

In photography, depth of field refers to how much of a three-dimensional space the camera can focus on at once. A shallow depth of field, for example, would keep the subject sharp but blur out much of the foreground and background. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have taken inspiration from ancient trilobytes to demonstrate a new light field camera with the deepest depth of field ever recorded. Trilobytes swarmed the oceans about half a billion years ago, distant cousins of today's…