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Paul Selden peered into one such abyss and found two sets of glowing eyes looking back at him. A geologist at the University of Kansas, he and his colleagues studied spider fossils in the spookily-named Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation. The delicate eight-legged arthropods are typically preserved only in amber, but in this particular seam of Korean shale, several specimens of the extinct Lagonomegopidae family were trapped and, over eons, transformed into rock....

Besides the simple joy of seeing a cartoonish eel have its lunch, this video provides a remarkable look at how the snowflake moray succeeds at feeding out in open air. Most fish are suction feeders, and require water to help usher food into their bellies, but the snowflake moray overcomes this with its unique physiology. These eels actually have two sets of jaws. When they are ready to feed, the eels open up and push their second jaws, or the “pharyngeal jaws,” forward from their throat....

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Hey @PopSci, is the #mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say “if you think that’s a baboon, perhaps you are the baboon!” But probably not, because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want! The first person to get it right wins! We’ll retweet the answer from @PopSci, and also update this post so your amazing animal knowledge will be permanently etched onto the internet....

Flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston had a busy weekend maneuvering Orion between Earth and its satellite. The team performed three trajectory correction burns with thrusters to nudge the capsule into the perfect spot and speed for the Artemis I mission’s milepost. As a result, the vehicle moved into “the lunar sphere of influence,” or more simply put, the moon’s gravitational field. But the work doesn’t end there....

Nicknamed ‘Spooky’, the asteroid is likely a dead comet, and, appropriately enough for Halloween, from some angles it looked like a skull, but the newest images to be released weren’t nearly as creepy. “The radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 show portions of the surface not seen previously and reveal pronounced concavities, bright spots that might be boulders, and other complex features that could be ridges,” Lance Benner, leader of NASA’s asteroid radar research program said in a statement....

“It’s too bad that we’re not further along, that it’s [not] a normal occurrence for a woman to go up on a space shuttle flight,” she told a NASA historian in 2002. “It’ll be a wonderful day when this isn’t news.” These days, women flying aboard the International Space Station has become as unremarkable as Ride hoped it would. But plenty of milestones remain before the title “astronaut” can completely shed its historically sex-biased connotations....

We did it: NASA just landed on Mars again. The first image back from the InSight lander shows just a few pebbles around the surface—which is very good news. The landing site was chosen for its flat features; to ensure instruments rest evenly, the fewer the rocks the better. There’s a chance the CubeSats communications system was able to snap a photo of the parachute deployment, but the InSight team is still waiting to see if that attempt was successful....

About half of NBA teams use the video game in their evaluation of rookies and possible trades, according to the Los Angeles Times. They say that the game allows them to assess new players based on early season statistics, as well as get a sense of how adding a player might change a team’s dynamic. Sounds goofy, but consider the fact that NBA Live 09* boasts stats based on real-world player data....

Here is a short list of major news organizations referring to Sandy as a “superstorm”: The L.A. Times, CBS News, Time, The Guardian, Business Insider, the Toronto Star, and the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what Professor Alan Blumberg, professor of ocean engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology and director of its Center for Maritime Systems, says a “superstorm” is: “It’s a media invention. There’s no real meteorological term called ‘superstorm....

The Japanese gaming giant has long been known for its first-party games and dedicated hardware to go along with them. Nintendo’s recent change of heart is a result of the their partnership with DeNA—a smartphone gaming company that powers popular mobile titles like Star Wars Galactic Defense and Blood Brothers 2. Nintendo has put their trust in DeNA to bring Mario, Zelda and other possible first-party IP to the iPhone and Android....

While copper and brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) are antimicrobial and many of the tools made from these materials are marketed as “killing viruses,” that claim is misleading, and you can still transfer germs from the tool to your bag or other items. Whatever tool you choose, it does not replace washing your hands and following the latest scientific recommendations for your area. If you frequently lose small objects or are always transferring your stuff back and forth between different bags, these affordable tools have you covered....

We humans like to hear sounds in the range of human voices and tempos similar to the human heartbeat, whereas cats probably prefer something a bit shriller, and perhaps closer to the tempo of a purr. In March, Popular Science reported on a group of researchers who were making music specially for cats–including caterwauling notes, mewing, and the sounds of suckling. Now you can help Kickstart an entire album of these unsettling songs....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described the Lovelace architecture as a “quantum leap” for gaming. The cards feature 76 billion transistors, which allows them to deliver better performance in a more efficient package. It also supports an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling, or DLSS, which uses artificial intelligence to enhance specific games’ fidelity and performance. Huang promised the RTX 4090 will offer up to “four times the performance” of its current top-of-the-line GPU, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti....

In the past we’ve seen some prototype games and full-fledged counterparts on the Oculus, but few simple time wasters, and even fewer with simultaneous multiplayer capabilities. With the latest Oculus demonstration, we see two VR users playing ping pong, fighting with toys, and setting off fireworks—all in virtual reality. It’s the simultaneous nature of the multiplayer that’s really special here, showing how virtual reality can potentially connect people around the world and let them inhabit the same immersive digital world, more closely replicating actually being together in real life....

The CDC previously reported that the Omicron variant was responsible for about 73 percent of new COVID-19 infections between December 12 and 18.. However new data released by the CDC on Tuesday show a revised estimate for that week of just 23 percent, a 50 point drop. In the most recent week of data, December 19 through 25, the CDC estimates that Omicron made up about 59 percent of infections—almost all other cases were caused by Delta....

Although much recent coverage of CRISPR has been focused on gene-edited humans, figuring out how to alter the animals we eat is a burgeoning field. That field came into focus earlier this week in a news story from Reuters about a collaboration between British scientists to produce chickens endowed with flu resistance. If all goes well, the first of these chicks will hatch later this year. Flu-resistant livestock chickens would form “a buffer between wild birds and humans,” Wendy Barclay of Imperial College London, the co-lead on the effort, told Reuters....

In short, the OnePlus 9 Pro smartphone is easily one of the best overall Android devices on the market. It’s not perfect, but it is pretty great. But, is it right for you? What is the OnePlus 9 Pro smartphone? Pick up the OnePlus 9 Pro and it feels familiar. It’s 2.89 inches wide, 6.4 inches tall, and roughly a third of an inch thick. That can be hard to picture, but it’s slightly narrower than the OnePlus 8 Pro that came before it and the Samsung Galaxy S21....

Two-in-one: Carhartt Pipeline Glove Carhartt is a reliable and stylish work-supply brand, and their pipeline glove is a well-rounded option for work in winter. Made primarily of stretchable polyester, it’s heavy-duty with a cinch-able wrist and chamude leather palm and fingers. It comes with a simpler fleece glove that can be worn underneath for extra protection or on its own for less extreme circumstances. Tough: Mechanix M-Pact Coyote Tactical Gloves These rad desert-colored gloves are comfortable around the wrist, breathable, and weatherproof....

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