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For the first time in history astronomers have discovered iron and titanium in the atmosphere of a planet outside the Solar system. This exoplanet — KELT-9b — is the hot alien world of all that we have ever found. The planet is so hot that its temperature is higher even than most stars. Hot exoplanet…

We all look forward to the launch of the space telescope James Webb, who is stuck in a never-ending series of delays, thanks to the idiots at Northrop Grumann — but old Hubble still delivers gorgeous views of the heavens. Last the telescope will remind you of how you are insignificant in the Grand picture…

What if this, but seen through a clunky headset?Photo: Julio Cortez (AP) Retail giant Walmart has apparently concluded that the experience of visiting its massive retail stores can be kind of unpleasant and appears to be working on technology that would, uh, simulate a flashy version of that experience from the comfort of your couch.…

Three physicists at Columbia University have made a splash with his new theory of the phonons, they assume that these particles can have negative mass and therefore negative gravity. Angelo Esposito, Rafael Krichevsky and Alberto Nicolis wrote an article in support of his theory and unloaded it to the server arXiv preprints. Most theories depict…

Back in 2009, Simon Irish, the investment Manager out of new York, have discovered a method by which, in his opinion, it was possible to change the world. Irish saw that the entire world is in need of enormous number of projects in the field of environmentally friendly energy sources to replace its infrastructure on…

Ugh.Screenshot: Twitter The president has a lot of fervent grievances—everything from the “enemy of the people” news media to the “angry Democrats” supposedly on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team—but social media has now apparently earned his lasting enmity. A few weeks ago, Gizmodo reported that Twitter appeared to be demoting some accounts with a long…

Then-presidential candidate and current Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in 2016.Photo: Andrew Harnik (AP) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has filed an official discrimination complaint against Facebook, saying the site’s dizzying array of advertising tools makes it simple for advertisers to illegally exclude wide swathes of the population from seeing housing…

  In the place of the Solar system where we study the distant Universe using powerful ground and space observatories have provided us with data and knowledge that we never dreamed of. But we still have no opportunity to go somewhere beyond Mars, we were told about this mission to other planets. Despite all the…

Scientists believe that water should be an important component of many exoplanets (planets the size 2-4 times larger than the Earth rotating near other stars). If this is confirmed, the approach to the search for life in our galaxy will change. The discovery of exoplanets in 1992 sparked interest in understanding the composition of these…

Case makers are often the source of information about the design of future smartphones. This time renders of the upcoming Sony Xperia XZ3 in case third-party published German retailer TVCMall. For rendering you can see the main design features of the smartphone. Surprisingly, they show a single main camera on the back panel, the second…