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What can you do inside a short story? Of the many engagements with other writers in Mary Costello’s collection, one ambition appears to guide her particularly; that of the narrator in a Jorge Luis Borges story who glimpses the Aleph, the point in space that contains everything, in Costello’s rendering, “the tiny sphere that encloses the whole universe, that makes visible every point and every place and every act from every angle, and in every light”. In her second book of short stories – The China Factory appeared more…

MIT physicists have successfully imaged particle pairings in a cloud of atoms, providing new insights into the behavior of electrons in superconducting materials. The discovery, documented in the journal Science, could assist in understanding superconductivity and further development of heat-free electronics. (Artist’s concept.)The images shed light on how electrons form superconducting pairs that glide through materials without friction.When your laptop or smartphone heats up, it’s due to energy that’s lost in…

Researchers have enlisted a new kind of helper to monitor the microbiomes of cities around the world: the honeybee. A recently published analysis shows that the debris which gathers at the bottom of their hives can reveal a great deal about what's going on in their urban environments.Much like our guts, cities too have microbiomes, a composite of various types of microorganisms that thrive in the environment. And, much like analyzing the microbiome in our guts can reveal important details about our physical condition,…

Powering off Ubuntu Linux 22.04. Image: Jack Wallen Right-click the guest VM for which you want to take the snapshot and click Snapshots. Naming a new VirtualBox snapshot. Image: Jack WallenHow to revert to a snapshotOnce the snapshot is taken, it's then available for you to use. If you click on the VM listing in the left pane, you'll see two things: The snapshot and the current state. The current state may be the broken state you cannot use. We've created a snapshot that can now be restored. Image: Jack…

Photoroom uses AI to transform your poor photos into admirable product images. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is meant to mimic human intelligence. AI develops independent decision-making and the ability to predict input over time as it learns the patterns in big data. The more data that is fed into this system, the more human-like it becomes. Beyond the limitations of conventional editing software, AI picture editors support the completion of labor-intensive tasks manually in less time and money. These photo editors…

By National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences October 4, 2022EP-WXT Pathfinder targets a region of the Galactic center at the core of the Milky Way. Inset shows the 800-second time-lapse photograph from the observation. Credit: CAS/ESA/Gaia/DPACEP-WXT Pathfinder has released its first results.EP-WXT Pathfinder, an experimental prototype of a module that will ultimately be part of the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) on the astronomical satellite Einstein Probe (EP), recently released its first…

Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green tied the knot over the weekend to actress Hazel Renee. The two were former classmates at Michigan State and reunited years later. They got engaged in 2019. Over the weekend, Essence published exclusive photos of their engagement. NBA Star Draymond Green And Hazel Renee's Stunning Engagement Shoot. See the beautiful images captured from their engagement photo shoot below and congratulations in advance to the happy couple. #ESSENCE https://t.co/artIZQ8tvq — ESSENCE (@Essence)…