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ift.tt/3pUfnKk Enlarge / Perseverance’s two Mastcam-Z imagers (in the gray boxes) are part of the rover’s remote sensing mast. The seven minutes of terror are over. The parachute deployed; the skycrane rockets fired. Robot truck goes ping! Perseverance, a rover…

ift.tt/3uyvAZc Megan Baker Home Projects Editor Megan is a writer and editor who specializes in home upgrades, DIY projects, hacks, and design. Before Apartment Therapy, she was an editor at HGTV Magazine and This Old House Magazine. Megan has a…

ift.tt/37PNkWo Mars’ surface is a harsh environment for life.  But life on Earth is notoriously resilient as well.  No one is quite sure yet how microbes from Earth would fare on the Martian surface.  However, the impact of a potential…

ift.tt/3kwtdSc Melt 3 tablespoons unsalted butter in a 12-inch or larger, preferably high-sided, skillet over medium heat. Add the onions, half of the thyme leaves, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Cook, stirring frequently with a wooden…

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ift.tt/3pTnOFC Download the full 2021 Cyber Security Report    “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future,” as Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics said.  At the start of 2020, very few of us could have foreseen the ongoing…

ift.tt/3bpkZqA Humans’ desire to set foot on another planet – even make it their home is not distant as visionaries like Elon Musk are headstrong about their goal of colonizing Mars in the next few decades. More than a pipedream,…

ift.tt/3sioplY The Florentine engraver imagines an expedition to a lunar landscape peopled by New World figures in fantastical, size-shifting scenarios. via ift.tt/3unOjGT ift.tt/1m2aii5

ift.tt/2Me7kdw After a satisfying Easter brunch or dinner, the kids will likely steal away to a corner of the house, peeling open piece after piece of candy. But what about the adults? As with any good holiday meal, it’s important…

ift.tt/2OUonCi Vintage British Pathé footage from the 1950s captures a London barber performing a (then) rather unusual hairstyle on a man. This style, called “The Elephant’s Trunk”, not only involved making waves with a hairdryer but also using a hair…

ift.tt/3qMvk6r Panoramic image of Mars taken by Perseverance on February 20, 2021. Never before, in all of our millions of years, have humans directly observed a spacecraft landing on another planet. Until now. On Monday, NASA released a video (embedded…

ift.tt/3qMvk6r Panoramic image of Mars taken by Perseverance on February 20, 2021. Never before, in all of our millions of years, have humans directly observed a spacecraft landing on another planet. Until now. On Monday, NASA released a video (embedded…

ift.tt/3ulypgb Joseph Silverman remembers when he began connecting the dots that would ultimately lead to a new branch of mathematics: April 25, 1992, at a conference at Union College in Schenectady, New York. It happened by accident while he was…

ift.tt/2ZGny2m “You have to solve this yourself, otherwise you won’t see how beautiful it is,” Lee Sallows (quoted from here). According to SoraNews24, the following simple math puzzle was given to elementary school kids in Japan, but it has also…

ift.tt/3si4IKW Research by: Eyal Itkin and Itay Cohen There is a theory which states that if anyone will ever manage to steal and use nation-grade cyber tools, any network would become untrusted, and the world would become a very dangerous…

ift.tt/3k4JOwa Getty Images A previously undetected piece of malware found on almost 30,000 Macs worldwide is generating intrigue in security circles, which are still trying to understand precisely what it does and what purpose its self-destruct capability serves. Once an…

ift.tt/3dq3Rng Come January and February each year, much of China’s population gears up for the world’s most massive coordinated migration. The Lunar New Year is traditionally spent with family, which means that millions of people across the country pack their…

ift.tt/3k3BCw6 In 2007, some of the leading thinkers behind deep neural networks organized an unofficial “satellite” meeting at the margins of a prestigious annual conference on artificial intelligence. The conference had rejected their request for an official workshop; deep neural…

ift.tt/3djQXHr The story of a forgotten visionary suspended between science and spiritual yearning, who inspired Kant and anticipated Hubble. Thomas Wright (September 22, 1711–February 25, 1786) grew up with a passion for learning and a speech impediment that made the…

ift.tt/2ZjCT8G America lost a free speech champion last week with the death of Larry Flynt at the age of 78. The publisher of Hustler magazine was one of those rare people who actually took a bullet for his principles. In…

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ift.tt/3am268N Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software update promises to give the spacecraft a new lease on life. As NASA’s eye in the sky over the…