ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More

From the breathtaking innovations in the 'Star Wars' trilogy to the astonishing imagery in 'Transformers,' Industrial Light & Magic has truly revolutionized visual effects in TV and movies. ILM's ...

‘Baby’ planet photographed for first time inside star’s ring

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times more massive than Jupiter, is the first planet of its kind to be observed growing inside its star’s ring, as captured by the Magellan Telescope and the ...
Gear Patrol

This Gorgeous Yet Affordable New Utility Knife Boasts an Incredibly Rare Feature

With Teenage Engineering looks and a Daft Punk-like promo video, the Maker II brings the sizzle — and quite possibly the ...

Virtual particles: How physicists' clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

Third dimension of data storage: Physicists demonstrate first hybrid skyrmion tubes for higher-density quantum computing

Typically, the charge of electrons is used to store and process information in electronics-based devices. In spintronics, the ...
Quanta Magazine

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...
What Hi-Fi? on MSN

Pro-Ject Primary E

Pro-Ject’s Primary E turntable is the blueprint for how to make a great-sounding, no-frills starter record player on a budget.It’s the most affordable traditionally designed Pro-Ject turntable – and ...

Tilly Norwood has Hollywood seething. She’s an AI-generated ‘actor.’

Emily Blunt, Lukas Gage and Toni Collette are among the actors expressing unease over the AI character Tilly Norwood that is being marketed to Hollywood.
Cartoon Brew

China’s ‘Nobody’ Surges Past 1 Billion Yuan ($185M), Breaks 2D Animation Record

Chinese animated feature Nobody was number one at the local box office over the weekend, crossing the 1-billion-yuan ($138.5 million) milestone as it continues rewriting records for 2D animation in ...
GitHub

kernelized surface (SGG2, 2D Gaussians) as particle kernel function

As mentioned in the paper, kernelized surfaces (SGG2, 2D Gaussians) can be used as a particle kernel function. I’d like to understand how these particle kernel functions can be applied within this ...
Game Rant

Blue Prince: How to Solve the Closed Exhibit Puzzle Box

Mina has been playing video games for her whole life. She hails from Virginia in the USA, and she loves cozy games, FPSs, MMOs, and puzzle games. She lives in Richmond with her husband and her kitty, ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists discovered evidence for a new four-body quasi-particle in 2D semiconductors

One of the central tasks of physics is to understand how various materials possess certain properties such as electrical, optical, thermal, or magnetic properties. These properties underlie all ...