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As part of a larger 1.5-million-pound arrangement with UK Sport, BAE developed the first technology that quantifies the time difference between the first and second shot to within 0.01 second. Coaches believe that understanding the time lapse for successful, and unsuccessful, shots, will allow shooters to better find the correct rhythm. They’re also interested to see whether times change between practice and competition, the result perhaps of an itchy (or sticky) trigger finger?...

Newton’s First Law tells us that “an object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion, at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force.” What’s happening in the video is similar to the old tablecloth trick. You can pull a tablecloth out from under a pile of dishes if you do it quickly, because, while a force accelerates the tablecloth, as long as the tablecloth doesn’t apply a significant force on the dishes, they’ll stay where they are, in accordance with the First Law....

Use a reflector to make a subject’s eyes pop A reflector is one of the simplest lighting tools that a photographer can have in their kit—we think everyone should have one. It can work wonders when lighting conditions are just so-so. A basic white reflector can fill in shadows on a sunny day, a gold reflector will warm a subject up, while silver creates a bright and neutral fill on an overcast day....

Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages like soda and fruit juices can increase people’s risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and lead to excess weight gain, which can lead to a host of other chronic health conditions as well. Cutting soda won’t eliminate those diseases—which have complicated causes—entirely, but models show reductions driven by taxes may cut down on their effect. In March, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association called for more widespread sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, citing their ability to reduce the amount of soda people drink and help combat health problems like obesity....

This stub is part of our “Best Of 2014” special effects package. You can check out the creativity and tech that went into other amazing films from this year here.

The findings are the best evidence yet that there is a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, 27,000 light-years away. And it appears to be spinning. This groundbreaking achievement follows the team’s first image, made public in 2019, of a distant black hole called M87* that’s located beyond our galaxy. What’s more, the shape and size of this black hole further confirm what Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity would have predicted....

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It’s a lot like a Model 3 Despite the Model Y’s crossover SUV-style design, the vehicle shares roughly 75 percent of its parts with the Model 3. Sadly, that means your new affordable electric crossover vehicle won’t get those fancy falcon wing doors found on the higher-end Model X. The Model Y checks in roughly 10 percent bigger than the model 3 sedan, which is already the best-selling electric vehicle on the market, and that extra room allows it to have three rows of seats and can fit up to seven people at once....

Normally, when you open up a doc, your presence is marked by a little icon of your face or the first letter of your name in the upper right-hand corner. But when you view a doc anonymously, you’re instead assigned one of several dozen animals. Google declined to comment for this story, but I was able to find a very long, crowdsourced list of critters online. Some are fictional, like the chupacabra or the meme-derived Nyan Cat....

Best overall: Milwaukee M18 Jobsite FanBest for stroller: Amacool Stroller FanBest handheld: HandFan Misting FanBest for camping: Fxexblin Camping FanBest for desk: Honeywell Turbo on the GoBest budget: Comlife Portable Neck Fan How we chose the best portable fans The temperature and humidity can get unbearable during where I live, which makes doing anything outdoors uncomfortable. That’s why I’ve made it my mission to find the best portable fans, so I can stay cool wherever I am....

At least, that’s the idea. There are no prototypes of Next yet, but the inventor, Tommaso Gecchelin hopes that the pods will start getting on the road in as little as five years. Next, as Gecchelin envisions it, is an app-based transportation system. Just like Uber or Lyft, you would put your current location and your destination into your phone, summoning a Next module. You get in and sit down (or stand–the design includes plenty of head room, though seat belt laws might have something to say about that) and the module starts off....

“Hundreds of people and millions of dollars in research have been involved in trying to find HGH in urine, and no one has been able to do it,” said anti-doping expert Don Catlin to the Associated Press. “This particular method has the potential — I’m not saying it does it, but the potential — to be a big step. It’s delightful. It could be a quantum leap forward.” The Ceres method relies on nanoparticles, originally developed for cancer research purposes, that can capture microscopic elements in fluid....

While space-faring coffee machines may make for interesting cargo, the Falcon 9’s Dragon capsule also held other precious freight. Embedded within the capsule, five experiments–ranging from musculoskeletal and neurological research on rodents to synthetic muscles–made their way to the International Space Station. The sponsors of this research? Private companies including Novartis, Merck, and Ras Labs. The station’s primary function is to serve as a research laboratory. Its sterile microgravity environment, surrounded by the harshness of space, makes it a unique place for testing the behavior of various materials and textiles, as well as experimenting with the growth of biological tissues and crystals....

The leaked information is mostly what you’d expect—personal data you have to fork over when checking into a hotel for the night. That includes standard stuff you might lose in a typical breach, like your name, email address, phone number, and date of birth. Some credit card info also got out, but the chain says it’s not sure if the perpetrating scoundrels have the ability to decrypt it. What’s not typical, however, is the fact that the breach also includes passport numbers, a fact that comes with its own some specific risks....

Wildlife photography requires a truly astounding amount of patience, planning, and luck. This year’s winners tracked colonies of army ants through the rainforest, camped out in snow-covered deserts, and hid behind underwater shipwrecks in an effort to showcase the diverse majesty of wild places and beings. And they weren’t alone: The contest received more than 48,000 entries from 100 different countries in its 55th running. Photographer Yongqing Bao received the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for “The moment,” a gripping action shot featuring a standoff between a marmoset and its foxy predator....

Masonite M-Pwr smart door Smart locks and smart doorbells are a known commodity in 2022, so now Masonite is simply making the whole smart door. The Masonite M-Pwr integrates a Yale smart lock, a Ring video doorbell, and a variety of sensors into the powered fiberglass door. For now, the M-Pwr is only available for contractors building new homes, so it isn’t something you can just buy, but it is an interesting step in the move towards integrating smart home tech into houses, rather than bolting it in on after the fact....

To ensure you never find yourself in that predicament, we recommend a selection of kitchen shears designed to be easy to clean, up for any job (even very specific ones), and reliably sharp. When you’re looking to cut ingredients, don’t cut corners. Shears are one of the most reached-for items in your kitchen…which means they are also likely to the most often misplaced. For those who’d rather not calculate time spent looking for kitchen shears vs....

If you spent the summer watching HBO’s Chernobyl through your fingers, this is old news. The prestige drama sacrificed quite a few facts for narrative’s sake and should not be mistaken for anything approaching a documentary. But the creators carefully embroidered their five-episode miniseries with cultural and scientific detail: The sets, in the words of the New Yorker‘s Masha Gessen, are “reproduced with an accuracy that has never before been seen in Western television or film—or, for that matter, in Russian television or film....

That’s the conclusion of a summary of the report prepared for the Department of Defense, by director of Operational Test and Evaluation Nickolas Guertin (the position oversees all DoD testing and specifically reports to the Secretary of Defense). “More than 80% of those who experienced discomfort had symptoms after less than three hours using the customized version of Microsoft’s HoloLens goggles,” the summary reports, according to Bloomberg. Those symptoms included “headaches, eyestrain and nausea,” reports Bloomberg, which are conditions that can incapacitate people in normal circumstances....