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Paolo De Gasperis/Shutterstock Noise reduction doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing to have turned on when you're using your television. However, there is only one instance where using the noise reduction setting would actually be of benefit: when you are viewing low-resolution videos on a TV that can handle better quality. When a TV…
Facial recognition works on seals. No, really.
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Many potential effects of climate change on humans, wildlife, and plants are relatively well-understood. Higher temperatures and extreme weather events can lead to food insecurity, loss of habitats, and the decline or extinction of species of living things. However, it’s also important to discuss how climate change can affect microorganisms or the tiny living things found everywhere on the planet that…
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On This Day In Space: July 3, 1998: Japan launches Nozomi...
Home News Spaceflight On July 3, 1998, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Nozomi spacecraft on a mission to Mars. This would be the country's first probe to go to another planet.Nozomi was supposed to arrive at Mars in Oct. of 1999, but an electrical malfunction left it lingering in a heliocentric orbit…
I watched hundreds of flat-Earth videos to learn how conspiracy theories...
Home News Science & Astronomy Earth as seen by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. Note lack of flatness. (Image credit: NASA) This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Carlos Diaz Ruiz (opens in new tab), Assistant Professor, Hanken School of…
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Home News Tech On the 198th day of its mission, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Mars can be an awfully windy place, it turns out.The Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 carrying, among other instruments, a weather station dubbed Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA). That…
Aphelion 2022: Earth will be farthest from the sun on the...
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James Webb Space Telescope has comets to catch when science begins
Home News Science & Astronomy Comet Hale-Bopp, as imaged from the Johannes-Kepler Observatory in Linz, Austria, in April 1997. (Image credit: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria under CC-BY-SA 3.0) Comets have mystified humanity for millennia, but with the James Webb Space Telescope beginning science operations this month, scientists hope to unravel secrets about…
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Airbnbs are convenient and often much more affordable lodging options for travelers compared to what’s usually available from a nice hotel. Still, there are tradeoffs with everything, and with that convenience comes the suspicion from some Airbnb guests that … the owners totally have a hidden camera in here somewhere. That’s one finding, in fact,…
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