Gadget in-extremis

We covered the camera system used in the Sphere Entertainment dome only recently, and it already has a rival...

This is what NASA’s Cold Atom Lab looks like. It’s aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and has recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer, the agency shares. 

Researchers build an atomic clock that is more precise and accurate than any previous clock - for the first time, a clock can detect the effects of gravity predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity at the microscopic scale.

A team at Aston University can send data at a rate of 402 terabits per second, claiming a world record in the process. They were using “standard fibre” for the optical comms.

This is Manta Ray, Northrop Gruman's newly unveiled "Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle" (UUV), designed for undersea missions without direct human presence - to help "master the deep".

Considering buying a digital camera? How about Sphere Entertainment's Big Sky camera system? STMicroelectronics makes the 316Mpixel 18K image sensor at the heart of the device...

Scientists at the NPL celebrate the first inclusion of a UK optical clock - the Sr1 strontium optical lattice clock - in the determination of International Atomic Time (TAI).

Pictured is Nasa’s cutting-edge X-59 aircraft, parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. This is where it will be based while undergoing ground and initial flight tests.

What is this? It's Nasa's 'Capture, Containment, and Return System' for its planned, super-complicated Mars Sample Return mission.

Check out LG’s huge - 272-inch - MAGNIT 8K Micro LED display, which has made its debut at the ISE 2023 show in Barcelona.