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Semana Mundial del Espacio 2026
🚀👨🚀👩🚀Esta semana dejamos volar nuestra curiosidad más allá de la Tierra para celebrar la Semana Mundial del Espacio en #Universum 🤩. Desde explorar con realidad virtual el cráter Jezero en Marte hasta interactuar con modelos 3D del rover Perseverance.
Mañana será el último días de actividades, ¡lánzate y vive un día fuera de este mundo! 👇 https://bit.ly/4x5BTT4
#SMEenUniversum #TuUniversum #SemanaMundialDelEspacio
Universum, el Museo de las Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México es pionero-en su tipo-en Latinoamérica.
See Blender 5.3 Running On Wacom Android Tablet
5.3 has finally entered beta, bringing DLSS denoising, 3D Gaussian Splatting support, Cycles dispersion, and more.
You can also download the Android version:
Video by Cartesian Caramel.
Check out the BCON26 presentation on the Android Platform Support project, then download the official APK and give it a try yourself.
Atari’s Iconic 1980s Computer Is Back & Available For Purchase
Atari has brought back its iconic 800XL home computer from the 1980s, keeping the original design while adding modern features like HDMI output, 25 built-in games, and more.
Available for pre-order.
Enjoy the classic experience with the 800XL, enhanced with modern display support, new features, and a collection of 25 games.
Pizza Tower Runs on 3DS Due to Custom GML Runner Called Cinnamon
Pizza Tower can run on the Nintendo 3DS thanks to Casriel’s custom GML runner, Cinnamon, which brings GameMaker: Studio games to older Nintendo consoles.
Read about the project.
Check out Casriel’s tool that brings GameMaker: Studio games to older Nintendo consoles.
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Be careful taking a deep breath outside today. You might accidentally inhale someone’s radio antenna.
It sounds like a cartoon gag, but engineers just proved it in a lab.
They just built a working antenna out of thin air. A high-energy laser turns an invisible column of atmosphere into a conductor that broadcasts radio signals.
To feed it without touching it, they shoot the beam through a copper ring, jumping waves across empty space.
Turn off the laser, and the antenna dissolves back into breathable air. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11674160
🌟 How a “Laser Antenna” Works.
Normally, antennas rely on metal conductors because their free electrons can carry and broadcast electromagnetic signals. In this study, scientists used an intense beam of light to ionize the air, creating a plasma filament (a glowing string of charged gas).
Because this filament has mobile electrons along its outer edges, it mimics the behavior of a traditional metal wire, giving it all the basic ingredients needed to act as an antenna.
Multimodal profiling uncovers an aging-associated ETS1-MYO1B vascular niche responsive to ipragliflozin
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Tissue aging involves complex changes in vascular, immune, and stromal compartments that collectively reshape the local tissue ecosystem and may contribute to age-related diseases, including cancer, fibrotic diseases, and cardiovascular disease. However, it remains unclear whether reproducible, cell-specific vascular niche states emerge during aging and whether these states can be therapeutically targeted.
Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its movement as it bends and twists
MIT engineers have developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists. The sensor is similar in principle to some motion-capture garments, which track a person’s physical movements to mimic them in a virtual avatar. Those designs use rigid sensors that are stitched into a suit at strategic locations.
In contrast, the team’s new design uses multiple soft optical fibers that zigzag throughout a soft and stretchable sheet. When the sheet bends, the fibers bend in kind, changing the pattern of light that travels through them. The researchers developed an algorithm to interpret the bending light patterns on the fly to create a digital image that moves the same way the sheet is moving. The team also showed that the design is resistant to damage: Even when a few fibers are cut or disconnected, the remaining fibers can still accurately reconstruct the sheet’s overall shape.
“Our setup is targeting fully soft and stretchable sensing surfaces so it’s potentially safer for interacting with a human or a soft environment,” says Qifan Yu, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT.
