Man's dislike for drugs, homelessness may have motivated fatal shootings in Phoenix metro area A potential motive in the five separate fatal shootings in metro Phoenix may have been the suspect's dislike of drugs and homelessness. The man is being held in jail without bond. Look Back in Time to the Early Universe. As the universe expands, it stretches out the waves of light coming from distant galaxies. Now you can measure this stretching, or “redshift” and use it to look back in time. The new Redshift Wrangler citizen science project, hosted by Zoonverse, asks you to help astronomers peer across billions of light years using this remarkable trick to learn how galaxies form. “In astronomy, the closest we g… BSS questions Isro chief claims, asks why Isro hasn’t used tech from Vedas to build rockets, satellites The Breakthrough Science Society (BSS), a collective of scientists and researchers, on Tuesday urged public figures, including administrators of scientific organisations to reflect the ethos of science in their discourse, while terming a recent statement about science in ancient India by Isro chairman S Somanath “an unrealistic claim”. Private astronaut crew, including first Arab woman in orbit, heads for splashdown An all-private astronaut team of two Americans and two Saudis, including the first Arab woman ever sent into orbit, headed for splashdown off Florida's coast on Tuesday, capping an eight-day research mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). |
How insects track odors by navigating microscale winds Insects use odor plumes -- which travel like smoke and form when the wind blows odor molecules from their source -- to track down sources such as flowers or pheromones. But wind tunnels are typically unable to replicate realistic outdoor wind conditions. Researchers decided to explore microscale wind conditions in various outdoor environments to better understand what flying insects might experience while tracking odor plumes. Brian Shul Dies at 75; Fighter Pilot Who Flew World’s Fastest Plane He was near death after his plane was shot down in the Vietnam War but survived to fly the world’s fastest and highest-altitude jet. Live coverage: U.S.-Saudi commercial astronaut crew heading for Earth today Wrapping up a nine-day mission, four commercial astronauts on Axiom Space's second flight to the International Space Station departed the orbiting research complex at 11:05 a.m. EDT (1505 UTC) Tuesday. The crew will ride back to Earth inside a SpaceX Dragon crew capsule, targeting splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico at 11:04 p.m. EDT (0304 UTC). Self-driving cars are bad at the social part of traffic Self-driving cars fall short when it comes to understanding the social codes in traffic that tell human drivers to yield or continue driving. |
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