Amazon’s first color Kindle e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, will run you $280
Amazon is revamping its whole Kindle e-reader lineup today. And situated amongst the nice-but- uncomplicated updates to the base design Kindle, the mainstream Kindle Paperwhite, and the pen-centric Kindle Scribe…
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Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite
The brand-new Kindle Scribe starts delivering on December 4 and begins at $399.99. This is a large boost over the very first Scribe’s $339.99 beginning cost, though the brand-new Scribe…
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What we can learn from animals about death and mortality
oh death, where is thy sting Susana Monsó talks with Ars about her brand-new book, Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death Credit: Princeton University Press Humans live every day with…
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Are we wrong about the age of the universe? The James Webb telescope is raising big questions.
Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). (Image credit: Dima Zel through Shutterstock) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ) is the biggest and most effective area telescope constructed…
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VST Sees Newborn Stars in Gum 39
Gum 39 is among a number of nebulae in a large excellent nursery called the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944), which lies about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation of…
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Researchers Discover Animal Life in Subseafloor Crust at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Marine biologists have actually discovered adult tubeworms and other vent animals listed below the seafloor in the East Pacific Rise, a volcanically active, fast-spreading ridge with various hydrothermal vent fields….
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NASA Astronauts, SOHO Spacecraft Snap New Images of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
An intense comet from the Oort cloud called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is going by Earth and will show up through the 2nd half of October 2024. This image, taken by…
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WWII British sub that sank with 64 on board finally found off Greek Island
The wreck of HMS Trooper was found at a depth of 770 feet in the Aegean Sea north of the island of Donoussa. (Image credit: Κostas Thoctarides/Planet Blue ) Shipwreck…
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Rare illusion gives ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ comet a seemingly impossible 2nd tail after closest approach to Earth for 80,000 years
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was found with a thin streak of light, referred to as an anti-tail, pointing in the total opposite instructions to its intense streaming tail. This picture was handled…
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Top-secret X-37B space plane will execute ‘never-before-seen maneuvers’ on its descent to Earth
The X-37B will participate in “aerobraking” — a series of regulated descents into Earth’s environment. This will quickly and unexpectedly alter its orbit. (Image credit: Boeing Space) A trick, speculative…
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