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No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool

Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of a quantum experiment that studies the physics of traversable wormholes. Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light travel. In reality, they are purely theoretical. Unlike black…

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The best guitar tuners of 2022

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Best overall Peterson StroboStomp HD SEE IT This strobe tuner pedal is accurate to one-tenth of a cent and bright enough to read in direct sunlight. Best clip-on KLIQ UberTuner SEE IT The UberTuner from KLIQ…

A key to lizard evolution was buried in a museum cupboard for 70 years

Artist’s impression of Cryptovaranoides when it was alive. Lavinia Gandolfi A new fossil find in the United Kingdom is a victory for de-cluttering and organization enthusiasts everywhere. The fossil specimen of an ancestor of present day lizards first unearthed in the 1950s was recently found stored in a cupboard at the Natural History Museum in…

Nvidia patches a whole host of GPU driver security bugs

Nvidia has patched a host of bugs impacting its GPU Display Driver, addressing issues that may have led to “code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering”. The security bulletin addressed 29 vulnerabilities in total, ranging widely in severity, which could see hardware such as its flagship GeForce and RTX…

Finnish leader says the brutal truth is Ukraine shows Europe isn’t ‘strong enough’ without the US

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Uk in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Finland’s prime minister said Ukraine showed Europe is too reliant on the US for security. “I must be brutally honest with you, Europe isn’t strong enough right now,” Sanna Marin said. “We…