via Luke Kingma and Lou Patrick-Mackay at Futurism Cartoons
NASA’s Voyager 2 November Exit Of The Heliosphere, Now A Denizen Of Interstellar Space
While Voyager 2's exit took place in November of last year, and the included video is dated from December 2018, the exit of the craft from the Heliosphere, and entry into interstellar space (just as the craft's sibling - Voyager 1 did in late summer of 2012) is still very much a newsworthy item hereabouts. Simply Outstanding.
DeepSqueek
via Bobbi Nodell, writing at the University of Washington, and reporting on the University of Washington School of Medicine's new DeepSqueek rodent audio translating software and their efforts to translate and comprehend rodent communications through the use of DeepSqueek (paywall)..
"Two young scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine developed a software program called DeepSqueak, which lifts this technological barrier and promotes broad adoption of rodent vocalization research...." This program takes an audio signal and transforms it into an image, or sonogram..." - via Bobbi Nodell, reporting for the University of Washington School of Medicine's
MIT: Underwater to Atmosphere Radio Communications Perfected
Incroyable! Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed what could very well be the 'holy grail' of submarine-to-surface communications. Monikered TARF, the system ostensibly converts SONAR to RADAR with no mid-processing steps required. Absolutely superb work, and today's Must Read.
Bob and Alice Meet The Ultimate Firewall →
Not the Alice and Bob we know running and frolicking along and about various and sundry paths to Security Nirvana, oh no me prtetties, but the Alice and Bob of mathematics, blackholes, paradoxes and whatnot... Examine - if you will - what happens when the pair meet the ultimate firewall - Today's Must Read.
Theories of Everything, Mapped →
deGrasse Tyson's View, Cassini's Final Moments →
' Cassini gave us Saturn, but also gave us Earth — as only deep space could reveal: Small. Frail. Lonely. Steeped in darkness. pic.twitter.com/zjF6jNUFyU ' - Neil deGrasse Tyson, via Twitter
XKCD, Eclipse Science →
XKCD, Physics Confession →
Seams, Minimum Number of →
via the notion of Universal Origami comes a Guarantee of a Minimum Number of Seams. An outstanding achievement that will yield enormous returns in the coming years.