Squash bees are specialists on squash pollen and also their most effective pollinators. Credit: Adrian Carper/CU Boulder On a cliffside at Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado, a fuzzy bee was industriously gnawing at the red sandstone. Making a loud grinding sound, the insect used its powerful jaws to drill tunnels and holes in … Read more
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks during the Business 20 (B-20) Summit in New Delhi on Aug. 25, 2023. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM shares rose as much as 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the tech and services provider announced fourth-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. Here’s how the company … Read more
The U.S. Navy is encountering a tenacious threat in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched wave after wave of low-cost precision weapons at vessels transiting the area, including attacks on U.S. warships themselves. “That’s one of the things [that] the Red Sea sort of demonstrates … we never know where the maritime … Read more
Graphic depiction of Thin Film Isotope Nuclear Engine Rocket (TFINER). Credit: James Bickford In the coming years, NASA plans to send several astrobiology missions to Venus and Mars to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. These will occur alongside crewed missions to the moon (for the first time since the Apollo Era) and the first … Read more
A ‘Ring Stick Up Cam’ is pictured at the Amazon Headquarters, following a launch event, on September 20, 2018, in Seattle. The camera was launched alongside more than 70 Alexa-enable products during the event. Stephen Brashear | Getty Images Amazon‘s Ring will no longer allow police to request users’ doorbell video footage in its neighborhood … Read more
More than 16,000 people in Sydney were left without power in a mass outage on Wednesday morning. The outage started about 5.50am and affected 16,620 customers in Sydney’s inner west. Ausgrid identified the suburbs of Leichhardt, Balmain, Drummoyne, Five Dock, Rozelle, Abbotsford, Birchgrove, Balmain East, Russell Lea, Wareemba and Rodd Point as being affected. Watch … Read more
The local enlarged image shows the specific structure of the color liquid crystal grating. Credit: Di Wang, Yi-Long Li, Fan Chu, Nan-Nan Li, Zhao-Song Li, Sin-Doo Lee, Zhong-Quan Nie, Chao Liu and Qiong-Hua Wang Holographic display technology provides an ultimate solution for real 3D display and has great potential in augmented reality and virtual reality. … Read more
YouTuber MrBeast built an empire out of flashy, high-dollar videos that rake in Zoomer eyes and advertiser cash. Out of apparently sheer curiosity, he recently posted one of those videos directly to Twitter in order to test out the new ad revenue model under Elon Musk — a video that just so happened to tout … Read more
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and X (formerly Twitter) Ceo speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), on December 15, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images Tesla is set to report fourth-quarter earnings for 2023 after the bell Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are … Read more
Scientists used a new, universal method to create a variety of 3D metallic and semiconductor nanostructures, including this structure revealed by an electron microscope. The scale bar represents one micrometer. The superimposed graphics convey that the researchers combined multiple techniques to layer silicon dioxide, then alumina-doped zinc oxide, and finally platinum on top of a … Read more
