Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura
Kati Dimoff, a professional photographer, has a routine: Every time she's in southeast Portland, she checks the big Goodwill there for film cameras with exposed, undeveloped film. She'll take the film to Blue Moon Camera, a shop with a love for older technology, and have it developed. They are one of the best labs in the country for developing old, expired, or out-of-production film, she writes in an email.
Joshua Foer, Nat Geo
Veteran cavers Peter and Ann Bosted were cruising around their hometown of Hawaiian Ocean View, on Hawaii's Big Island, a few years ago when Ann spotted a small hole off the side of the road.It was no more than three feet widejust big and inviting enough for the couple to pull their car over and try to slink into.We had a couple hours to kill, Peter told me, so we started surveying, and we found a side passage that turned out to be a lot more mazy than we expected. Back home... Читать дальше...
Ferris Jabr, Hakai Magazine
One November night each year, beneath the full moon, more than 130 species of corals simultaneously spawn in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Some corals spew plumes of sperm, smoldering like underwater volcanoes. Others produce eggs. But most release both eggs and sperm, packed together in round, buoyant bundles as small as peppercorns and blushed in shades of pink, orange, and yellow.
Ling Xin, Physics World
China has launched the country's first dedicated X-ray telescope to study the radiation produced by black holes and neutron stars as well as detect gamma-ray bursts. The 1bn RMB Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) was launched today at 11:00 local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in north-western China's Gobi Desert. It will now be put into low-Earth orbit with an altitude of around 550 km. First proposed in 1994 and approved in March 2011, HXMT has... Читать дальше...
Mike Wall, Space.com
SpaceX's Mars-colony missions may take "pinpoint rocket landing" to a whole new level.Elon Musk's company has already brought a Falcon 9 booster safely down to Earth 11 times during orbital launches, on each occasion successfully targeting a relatively small landing zone: either the deck of a robotic ship at sea or a pad on terra firma near the launch site.
Emma Young, BBC Future
Until she was 40 years old, Melanie Goodwin had no memory of her life before the age of 16. Then, a family tragedy triggered a cataclysmic psychological change. Suddenly she was aware of other identities inside her, and the barriers between them were crumbling. The different identities belonged to her, Melanie felt, but her' at different ages, from three years' old to 16 and on into adulthood.These ages were not random. Amid the confusing, terrifying mingling of different... Читать дальше...
Ethan Siegel, SWaB!
By building bigger telescopes, going to space, and looking from ultraviolet to visible to infrared wavelengths, we can view stars and galaxies as far back as stars and galaxies go. But for millions of years in the Universe, there were no stars, no galaxies, nor anything that emitted visible light. Prior to that, the only light that existed was the leftover glow from the Big Bang, along with the neutral atoms created during the first few hundred thousand years. For those millions of years... Читать дальше...
Rob Stein, NPR
The use of electronic cigarettes by middle and high school students in the United States has dropped for the first time since the federal government started tracking the use of these products by young people.The number of teenagers using e-cigarettes fell from 3 million in 2015 to 2.2 million in 2016, according to a report published Thursday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
