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The pilots, technicians, and researchers on board had to simultaneously operate the craft and instruments, while carefully listening to directions from team members on the ground. “Imagine, you get this information firehose, and you’re in a plane in turbulence in a snowstorm,” says Sandra Yuter, a weather and climate expert at North Carolina State University, who was the lead mission scientist overseeing the flight from the ground. “It’s very intense; you come back and are absolutely exhausted....

Over the years, improvements to headlights in the United States largely revolved around simply making them brighter. Meanwhile, the rest of the world began experimenting with in-car technology to adapt a vehicle’s headlights to better light the world around them. Meanwhile, the US.was left in the stone age with its headlight tech being limited to rudimentary features like auto high beams. Thanks to the new infrastructure bill, that’s about to change....

It also used to be an even bigger ecological playground. Roughly 80,000 years ago it was also home to extinct megafauna, or giant animals similar to ones found today that once lived in the country’s forests and plains. That includes giant wombat relatives. However, there has been a bit of a wombat relative identity crisis occurring in the study of these marsupials. Remains of the extinct Diprotodon are commonly believed to be Australia’s “giant wombat,” but it isn’t the closest wombat relative since it belongs to the family Diprotodonidae and not Vombatidae....

NASA released the first picture from the fully aligned telescope on Wednesday, showing the star 2MASS J17554042+6551277. Though other telescopes have previously photographed the star, JWST captured it with higher resolution. The telescope also detected other stars and galaxies in the background. These are called “deep field” images. “This is going to be the future from now on,” said Jane Rigby, JWST operations project scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, according to Space....

90’s Dad Cap: All That Hat Baseball Adjustable Strapback Bring it back to the OG Nickelodeon faves with this All That cap, which has a timeless design and retro style that adds flair to any outfit. Not all will remember the NickRewind classic, but if they do, this hat is a worthy gift of a certifiable 90’s kid. Nickelodeon essential: The Nick Box The Nick Box is a subscription service that just dumps a bunch of Nickelodeon nostalgia right at your front door....

And where turkey is being eaten, there is inevitably talk of tryptophan—a naturally occurring chemical found in turkey and other foods. This building block of protein often takes the blame for eaters feeling sleepy soon after the Thanksgiving meal. Science has cleared tryptophan, though—it’s not the culprit when it comes to drowsiness after the feast. There are far more important factors leading to those post-turkey comas, not least of which is my Uncle Clarence’s story about parking at the airport....

Meteorologists warn that rainfall could reach rates of two inches per hour in parts of New Jersey and Long Island, and New York City could see a total of five inches of rain. As of Tuesday morning, some areas in northern New Jersey have already gotten about 4 inches, and the downpour is expected to continue all day. CNN is currently tracking the downpour, which forecasters say is just the first of multiple storms that will target the area in the final week of October....

Nuclear warheads are hardly the only measure of a nation’s destructive power, but they’re easily the most eye-catching. China already has the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, behind Russia and the United States. In the report, the Pentagon estimates China’s arsenal to currently be over 400 warheads. The Federation of American Scientists, which produces an independent assessment of nuclear forces, estimated China’s arsenal at over 350 warheads as of early 2022....

Will we be dealing with the same old diseases? Or will we have engineered solutions to be super-human healthy? That’s what we’ll try to figure out in this episode of Futuropolis—the prognosis for future illnesses. Unfortunately, cancer isn’t going away anytime soon. But oncologist Jennie Crews tells us how our bodies can be persuaded to kill these out-of-control cells. On the other end of the life cycle, geneticist Santiago Munné describes a bizarre but not implausible vision of what baby-making might look like in just 20 years....

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured the earthquake as having a magnitude of 7.8. The magnitude of an earthquake is the amount of energy released by an earthquake at the source. When an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 strikes on land, the damage can be catastrophic, as we saw last April, when an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck Nepal, killing thousands and triggering landslides and avalanches throughout the region....

For a lot of reasons, those people aren’t as clever as they think. First of all, it’s far from being an original joke. Second of all, not reading an article immediately would only be an example of procrastination if there was a reason you needed to read it but have decided—for no valid reason—to do something less important instead. “All procrastination is delay, but not all delay is procrastination,” says Tim Pychyl, founder of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada....

“The findings are promising and exciting,” says lead study author Michael Bogenschutz, director of the NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine. “We saw large and very persistent effects that could help us find out what place psilocybin will play in the treatment of alcohol use disorder and potentially co-occurring mood and anxiety disorders.” Though it enrolled fewer than 100 people, the trial “represents the largest psilocybin study to date, and the relatively robust outcomes in both overall drinking, and drinking-related behaviors in a study of this size are therefore noteworthy,” says James Giordano, professor of neurology and biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center who was not a member of the research team....

Hunting down lag on the Razor Huntsman V2 Huntsman is Razer’s line of gaming keyboards with optical switches, an increasingly common alternative to mechanical keyboards, where pressing a key pushes down a panel that allows a laser to shine through and “actuate” the key, sending an input signal. Switching from mechanical switches to analog in keyboards and mice is the next phase in PC gaming peripheral makers’ never-ending war on input lag....

Ransomware attacks are pretty much what the name implies—targets’ data is hacked and subsequently encrypted, then held for a ransom. Orchestrators then usually threaten to leak or sell the sensitive information if victims do not pay. Luckily, the district’s superintendent reported no demand was immediately made over the weekend, and schools were able to reopen on Tuesday with no interruption to scheduling. That said, security experts warn the schools may not be out of the woods for some time, if ever....

SIM cards, which allow your phone to connect to your network provider, contain bits of nickel, copper, silver, and gold. Now, researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Cagliari in Italy have discovered a low-impact way to recycle gold from this electronic waste, and reuse it in chemical reactions for drug manufacturing. The process could help save e-waste from landfills and also reuse precious metals that would otherwise have to be mined....

The knowledge comes per an exclusive report from Reuters yesterday, which lays out how Pushwoosh’s activities are raising concerns for the company’s often high profile customers overseeing troves of sensitive user information. Reuters does not claim that a breach of privacy has taken place, but does point to the Russian intelligence agencies’ far-reaching authority and previous orders to companies to share their data with the government. “I am proud to be Russian and I would never hide this,” Pushwoosh’s founder, Max Konev, wrote Reuters via email, adding that the company “has no connection with the Russian government of any kind....

The law is an amendment to Russia’s Air Code. Here’s how Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news organization, describes it: RT, a different media organization owned by the Russian government, says this about the rules: The 0.55 pounds (or 250 grams) weight registration threshold for drones is identical in both the Russian and American drone registration laws. Russian law also establishes a minimum of a two-person crew for the drone, which is a step further than the American law....

Reports of salmonella poisoning began in early August, and peaked later that month. It can take three to four weeks to determine if a sick person has been affected by an outbreak, so rates could be much higher than what’s been reported so far. Most of the reported cases have come from Texas and Oklahoma. Salmonella is a type of bacteria that causes salmonella poisoning, or salmonellosis. Symptoms typically include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach cramps, which can begin anywhere between six hours and a week after consuming a product contaminated by the bacteria....

It’s also not surprising why people have become more innovative when it comes to building cooling products. From personal air coolers to USB-powered humidifiers to battery-powered juice makers to even car refrigerators, there is a growing number of products dedicated to keeping you cool when you’re out and about. But if you want a constant breeze when you’re under the sun, the Cool Blades 4.0 neck fan may be worth the investment....

“We are just imploring the investors to divest and to prevent what could be major violence against the Indigenous people and other residents of Hawaii,” Noelani Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor and one of those standing in protest at Mauna Kea, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Friday. Big Island Now reports that graduate students and professors from UC Berkeley, Caltech, the University of Toronto, and numerous other institutions have signed a petition asking that “members of the astronomy community leverage their power to oppose further violence against Mauna Kea protestors....