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An NYPD cruiser on Nov. 23, 2017.Photo: Scott Roth (Invision/AP) The New York Police Department has yanked thousands of police body cams from deployment after a unit “burst into flames” while an officer was wearing it in Staten Island, according to the Daily Beast. The Daily Beast wrote the type of camera in question, a…

Image: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its first image from space. The image was shared by the European Space Agency (ESA) this weekend and looks to be a bit of a selfie, capturing…

100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It The World Wide Web is officially old enough for us judge what it’s produced. That’s right, it’s… Read more Read Facebook's War Room Is Definitely Managing at Least One Crisis Somewhere in the heart of Facebook HQ, a shadowy team toils behind the closed doors…

Daily for lighting the city streets at night to spend huge sums in the interests of economy and ecology would these amounts be reduced. But reduce the quality of light or number of lights is not reasonable from the point of view of security. What should I do? The Chinese authorities believe that it is…

The study of the nervous system of higher animals is no easy task. Especially if we are talking about the study of the human brain. To obtain the required material is very rare. Recently, however, neuroscientists are pretty well learned to deal with stem cells and it is through this group of experts from tufts…

On 11 October, the planned launch of “Soyuz-MS-10” with the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG”. But to reach orbit failed. The accident occurred at 119 seconds in the separation of the side blocks of the first stage from the Central block of the second stage. Then triggered a distress beacon, the ship was divided into compartments and…

October 21, 1879 Thomas Edison conducted a successful test of the advanced they are incandescent bulbs. Despite the modest performance, the light in the vacuum bulb with carbon filament could replace street gas lighting. The lifetime of the lamps does not exceed 40 hours, but due to the low cost of production and supplies Edison’s…

Photo: Evan Vucci (AP) The U.S. has had a brief respite from nuclear apocalypticism after that brief period when Donald Trump seemed pretty likely to start a war with North Korea via Twitter. But this being Trump, the power of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has never seemed very far from his mind, and on Saturday…

When the planets revolve around the Sun, separated by a good distance, we think that they are not in contact and share material. The solar system can be a cruel place, where asteroids are falling and flying comets, but the planets themselves seem too big and massive, in order to participate. When large shocks affect…