Astronomers have captured an image of a small planet forming within the dusty disc surrounding a distant star. The still-forming planet is carving out a gap in the dusty disc as it orbits the star. Credit: C. Ginski/R. van Capelleveen et al. Astronomers had long theorised that planets probably exist in the gaps in these ‘circumstellar’ discs, and that they …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🎮 An Australian gamer transformed a LEGO Game Boy into a fully functional console. 🛠️ Natalie The Nerd used her skills to integrate a working motherboard into the set. 🔧 The project involved customizing the motherboard to fit inside the LEGO casing. 📚 Natalie plans to share documentation to inspire others in the gaming community. In the …
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Scientists have released new images showing, in incredible detail, antibiotics defeating disease-causing bacteria by piercing the microbes’ membranes and infiltrating their innards. The antibiotics, called polymyxins, were observed forcing the armored membranes around Escherichia coli bacterial cells to grow bumps and bulges. The bacteria then shed their outer membranes, leaving space for the antibiotic to enter the cells. “It was …
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OpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos. Within hours of Sora 2’s, release, though, many of the videos populating the feed and spilling over to older social media platforms depicted copyrighted characters in compromising situations as well as graphic scenes of violence …
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Player Ratings: Real Madrid 3 – 1 Villarreal Thibaut Courtois: 8.A massive save on a first-half breakaway kept Villarreal from taking the lead. Commanded his area well. Fede Valverde: 8.5.Played right-back — and, naturally, after saying he wasn’t born to play there, he looked born to play there. Tremendous defensively, relentless work rate, and delivered quality balls into the box. …
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A portrait of President Donald Trump may be featured on a commemorative $1 coin issued by the United States Mint in honor of America’s 250th birthday in 2026, according to first drafts of the images confirmed by the US Treasury. “No fake news here,” US Treasurer Brandon Beach post on X in response to images of the coin on X. …
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An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO’s new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy. LEGO has a bit of history when it comes to Nintendo hardware. The now-retired Nintendo Entertainment System set is a particular favorite of this writer, and yes, I popped a Raspberry Pi into the console and an …
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We use our smartphones just about everywhere, even in the bathroom, though we may not want to talk about that part. A recent study of colonoscopy patients revealed that most used their phones on the toilet at least once a week — and that those phone-on-the-toilet users showed a 46% increased risk for hemorrhoids. The cause and effect are clear. Caught …
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Let me be clear: this is not an emulator. Natalie did not stuff a Raspberry Pi in here. It’s far more impressive than that. What you’re seeing are real Game Boy cartridges, running on real Game Boy chips, soldered to a real circuit board of Natalie’s own creation. Working buttons, too. To fit it into the Lego Game Boy, she …
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