Month: April 2026
NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, April 19 (game #777)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…
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‘A mosaic-like pattern’: This new ‘Swiss-Army’ optical chip replaces bulky hardware to deliver better, faster broadband
Controlled disorder enables multiple optical functions within a single compact device Mosaic metasurfaces reduce space requirements for complex light manipulation tasks Eleven optical functions operate simultaneously on one engineered surface Researchers at Monash University have flipped a long-held assumption in optics by showing how controlled disorder can make optical devices…
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The RAM shortage could last years
According to Nikkei Asia, even as suppliers ramp up DRAM production, manufacturers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027. SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world’s largest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron —…
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‘For nocturnal creatures, there’s nothing better than camera traps’ — how an award-winning wildlife photographer used old secondhand DSLRs and custom camera traps to make discoveries that ‘stunned’ Kenya’s Masai Mara rangers
The winners at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026 have been revealed, and once again the prestigious contest, which this year attracted 430,000 entries from over 200 countries and territories, was packed with incredible photography and stories. I was fortunate to get a sneak preview of the exhibition — which…
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‘Birds avoid turbines far more than prediction models assume’: Spoor’s AI monitoring is changing how wind farms measure wildlife risk
One of the biggest hurdles facing new wind farms is proving how wildlife interacts with turbines in the real world. Developers and regulators need to understand how wildlife interacts with wind turbines, but much of the current process relies on intermittent surveys carried out by human observers using binoculars or…
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‘1,000x faster internet’: New Chinese crystal breakthrough could make the world’s GPS obsolete overnight
Nuclear clocks promise accuracy far beyond existing atomic timekeeping systems Thorium 229 offers a rare pathway to practical nuclear time measurement Ultraviolet breakthrough reduces one of the hardest barriers in nuclear clock development A new crystal developed by Chinese scientists has broken the world record for ultraviolet light conversion, bringing…
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