New Horizons records farthest Earth images from 2017
The Long Range Reconnaissance Imager aboard NASA s New Horizons captured three distant Kuiper Belt targets in December 2017 setting new distance records. Porters notes on the Pale Blue Dot and Voyager 1 context anchor this milestone as New Horizons continues toward 2019 s 2014 MU69 flyby and beyond.
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Earth
NASA
New Horizons
Pluto
Simon Porter
Southwest Research Institute
Colorado
Porter
New Horizon
Carl Sagan
Voyager 1
Voyager
Solar System
Jupiter
Hubble
Glasses reveal unique 3-D vision in praying mantises
Scientists fitted tiny 3-D glasses on praying mantises to study their stereoscopic vision. Results show mantises match moving targets in depth without relying on correlated image contrast, suggesting a distinct light-change detection algorithm. Findings may guide simplified robot vision for drones and lightweight robots.
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Current Biology
Jenny Read
Newcastle University
England
Read
Vivek Nityananda
Migraine sufferers linked to broader cardiovascular risk
A Danish BMJ study of 51 000 migraine patients and 510 000 controls finds migraines raise risks of stroke, heart attack, blood clots, and irregular heartbeat. Authors note higher risk with aura, stressing migraines as a population-level cardiovascular risk factor.
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Kasper Adelberg
Aarhus University Hospital
Denmark
Adelberg
Tobias Kurth
Institute of Public Health
Charite- Universitatsmedizin
Berlin
Kurth