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The James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers to peer into nearby galaxies and see the elaborate structures of dust and gas which are created by and necessary for star formation. The Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies, or PHANGS project, involves using data from different telescopes to look at galaxies that are close to us. By using telescopes such as theHubble Space Telescopeand the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, researchers can collect data in different wavelengths such as the visible light and radio wavelengths....

“A lot of what you’re seeing here is a convergence of engineering and biology in ways that people didn’t imagine even just a few years ago,” saidJeffrey Borenstein, technical director of the Biomedical Engineering Center at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a mere stone’s throw from the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, the not-for-profit Draper Laboratory has been carrying out cutting-edge research for decades. In the 1960s, it helped design the Apollo Guidance Computer that placed the Apollo astronauts on the moon, and then returned them safely....

The photo editing console Loupedeck Plus is continuing to move beyond still photos. On Thursday, March 13, Loupedeck announced Final Cut Pro and Adobe Audition compatibilitywith the Loupedeck Plus. The update is the second video editor to be integrated with the accessory that was originally designed for editing images inside Adobe Lightroom. While the Loupedeck Plus is about the size of a typical keyboard, the USB-powered accessory uses buttons, dials, and wheels to create a hands-on experience for editing photos and videos....

The Xbox Series X/S will be the first consoles to supportDolby Visiongaming. The program will roll out to Xbox Insiders starting this week. Dolby Vision is meant to give games a significant graphical boost with “full-spectrum visuals.” It offers games upgrades like brighter highlights, sharper contrast, and more vibrancy, as well as more visibility in both light and dark situations. According to Dolby, it’s an automatic process. Players do not have to adjust brightness sliders to tweak their screen....

Summary TheMaze Runnerfranchise is guaranteed to break a major box office milestone thanks to the upcoming release ofThe Maze Runner 4. 20th Century Fox found great success by adapting James Dashner’s young adult novels into movies during the 2010s, as the originalMaze Runnermoviesmade over $940 million worldwide. It came as no surprise then when Disney confirmed its intention to develop more movies in the franchise after acquiring Fox. Although development was quiet for years, confirmation has now come that anewMaze Runnermovie is in development....

How the SKA facility is expected to look when it’s finished.Department of Industry, Science and Resources A new facility being built in the Australian Outback could potentially detect alien life in the universe. Construction work on the world’s largest radio telescope began on Monday some 320 miles north of the western city of Perth. When the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is complete, the $2 billion facility will be able to capture the entire observable universe in unprecedented detail, with the more than 130,000 Christmas tree-shaped antennas providing astronomers and scientists with a raft of valuable deep-space data that could unlock some of the secrets of the universe....

Google’s abandonment of the Nik Collection created enough of an outcry thatDxO rescued the photo-editing plug-ins in 2017. Now, the Nik Collection has its first new plug-in under the DxO name as part of the updatedNik Collection 3, a major upgrade that adds a new perspective correction tool, non-destructive editing, speed enhancements, workflow improvements, and, of course, new filters. The last time we used the Nik Collection, the plug-in suite was owned by Google — and free....

One Piece: Every definitive death in order Spoiler alert! Some big names in One Piece are included in this list as we round up every significant death in the series. OnePiecerarely kills off characters in the long-runninganime. Even series creator Eiichiro Oda has gone on record admitting that he dislikes it when characters die and tries to write around it as much as possible. Instead, they often opt for the “Team Rocketis blasting off again!...

OneWeb is poised to take on SpaceX’s Starlink with its own internet-from-space service. U.K.-based OneWeb successfully deployed another 36 satellites at the weekend and a short while later confirmed they were operating as expected. Sunday’s mission marked OneWeb’s 18th launch and its third this year and expanded its constellation to 618 satellites. The deployment was significant as it gave OneWeb enough satellites to offer global broadband coverage, Global services won’t begin until later this year, however, as OneWeb needs to finish building out the ground stations that form a critical part of the system....

You could have spent the entirety of 2023 keeping up with new games and you still wouldn’t have played a fraction of the excellent games released this year. That’s especially true for the independent scene, which produced some fantastic works of art in-between gargantuan releases likeThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I can’t blame anyone for missing a few — I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface myself — but you shouldn’t leave 2023 without a handful of indies in your backlog....

Overwatch‘s cutest robot has a whole new Lego-themed look in the game’s latest event,Bastion’s Brick Challenge. Blizzard announced the limited-time event on Monday, along with a video showing the new epic Brick Bastion skin in action — complete with an adorable brick version of Bastion’s pet bird, Ganymede (who can somehow still fly despite being made bricks). The challenge will last from September 17 through September 30, and will feature 12 new cosmetic rewards that you may earn by winning games in Quick Play, Competitive Play, and Arcade....

Themysterious PlatinumGames “Four” websiteunveiled a teaser trailer forProject G.G., the studio’s first self-published game. The short video shows a giant monster ravaging a city as a frightened Shiba Inu looks on. A headphone-wearing superhero rushes in to save the day by growing to the monster’s size and squaring up for a massive kaiju fight. While the trailer doesn’t show any gameplay, PlatinumGames bills the project as the climax to the company’s “superhero trilogy,” positioning it as a spiritual successor to the PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya-directedViewtiful JoeandThe Wonderful 101....

Nikon no longer has a mirrorless camera line. Nikon Inc. in Japan confirmed today that the 1-series isno longer in production, ending its seven-year run. “The Nikon 1-series cameras, lenses, and accessories are no longer in production,” a Nikon Inc. spokesperson told Digital Trends. “The Nikon 1 J5 and other Nikon 1 products are available at select retailers in some regions.” The Nikon 1’s demise is unsurprising — the series wasrumored to be on the way out last year....