Category: Art

On Monday, Xbox announced that it would be hosting its next Partner Preview event on Wednesday, March 6th. Well, March 6th is here, and the event is over, so we have another round of game trailers and announcements to talk about. Today, Xbox hosted its March Partner Preview event. The event, which streamed live on...

Key milestones for creating a planetary-scale Digital Twin Earth. Credit: Brocca L et al/Frontiers The water cycle looks simple in theory—but human impacts, climate change, and complicated geography mean that in practice, floods and droughts remain hard to predict. To model water on Earth, you need incredibly high-resolution data across an immense expanse, and you...

Netflix proved that cracking down on password sharing can be quite lucrative. Despite the online protests from people threatening to cancel their subscriptions after the anti-password-sharing measures were implemented, Netflix actually got millions of new subscribers in the second half of 2023. It’s no wonder Disney was quick to announce it also plans to ban...

If you’re a Netflix subscriber and find yourself with time on your hands over the next week or so, good news — the streaming giant has decided to close out the first quarter with a veritable flood of new content, much of which will start to roll out over the next seven days. We’re talking...

Artist’s illustration of SpaceX’s Starship on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX) Practice makes perfect, which is especially true for moon missions with astronauts on board. That’s why SpaceX and NASA recently completed more than 200 docking scenarios together with Starship hardware. Starship is the landing system that will bring astronauts to the lunar surface with...

From the expanse of the Mississippi River to the heights of the Great Smoky Mountains, here are the Tennessee boutique hotels, camping compounds, and storied resorts we suggest for exploring Memphis, Nashville, and beyond. The Memphian, Memphis Best for: Art lovers The lone hotel in Overton Square, The Memphian offers a one-of-a-kind lodging experience, blending...

A series of images showing asteroid 2008 OS7 tumbling past Earth on Feb. 2, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A stadium-sized asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched. Asteroid 2008 OS7 passed by Earth on Feb. 2, 2024 at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers),...

Cellular structures made from metal alloys could strengthen everything from bone implants to rocket parts—if they didn’t keep cracking under pressure. Researchers have so far spent years attempting to solve for uneven weight distribution issues across these artificial “metamaterials” to little success. As detailed in a recent study published in Advanced Materials , however, a...

A discovery by researchers from the GIGA — Center of Research Cyclotron at University of Liège reveals that the sleeping body also reacts to the external world during sleep, explaining how some information from the sensory environment can affect sleep quality. Researchers at ULiège have collaborated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland to investigate...

The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations (UN) climate negotiations concluded in December against a backdrop of shattered climate records, extreme weather, and climate events in 2023 that resulted in substantial loss of life, …Read whole article here