An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: Meteorologists have never gotten a shiny magazine cover or a brooding Aaron Sorkin film, and the weather-research hub of Norman, Oklahoma, is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Palo Alto. But over the past few decades, scientists have gotten significantly — even staggeringly — better…

Check out this special tour of areas off-limits to the public. …read more Source:: CNet

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Who got a behind-the-scenes tour of the amazing Hoover Dam? We did. Now you can, too. …read more Source:: CNet

Throughout our day-to-day experiences, we come across or make use of many scientific principles which we might not be aware of, even if we immediately recognize them when they’re described. One such curiosity is that of caustics, which refers not only to corrosive substances, but can also refer to a behavior of light that can…

A research team from the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has created a printer — nicknamed the “replicator” — that shines light onto specific spots in a rotating resin that solidifies when exposed to a certain light level. What this does is forms the entire item all in one go, rather…

Keep an eye out for the iOS 12.1.4 update to be available for your iPhone or iPad, because if you’re running iOS 12.1 or later, this is a must-have patch that fixes the worst iOS bug to date. …read more Source:: ZDNet

When you build one-off projects for yourself, if it doesn’t work right the first time, it’s a nuisance. You go back to the bench, rework it, and move on with life. The equation changes considerably when you’re building things to sell to someone. Once you take money for your thing, you have to support it,…

“China hasn’t launched a new nuclear reactor build for over two years, but Chinese press reports that this nuclear hiatus has broken,” writes Slashdot reader carbonnation. “Approvals have reportedly been made for four Hualong One reactors — a domestic “Generation III” design — instead of U.S.-designed AP1000s.” From a report via MIT Technology Review: China’s…

Sometimes you have an idea, and despite it not being the “right” time of year you put a creepy skull whose eyes tell the time and whose jaw clacks on the hour into a nice wooden box for your wife as a Christmas present. At least, if you’re reddit user [flyingalbatross1], you do! The eyes…