Lexus is at the 2019 Chicago Auto Show and has brought with it the cool 2019 Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series. The car is entering production and will be a very limited edition with only 100 of the LC 500 Inspiration Series cars produced. The ride is the third vehicle to slot into the Lexus Inspiration Series.
Scientists have discovered a gigantic cavity forming in the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. The massive cavity is about two-thirds of the area of Manhattan and is said to be almost 1,000-feet tall and growing. The cavity is growing at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, and the discovery is part of a NASA-led study of the glacier.
Astronomers are excited and have announced that a small and underfunded project has made a world's first discovery. For the first time, astronomers have been able to detect a 13km radius body at the edge of the solar system. Kilometer size bodies such as this have been predicted to exist for over seven decades, but this is the first time one has been discovered.
Chevrolet has a new big gun from Ford to fight at the road course and drag strip, that car is the 2020 Shelby GT500. The GT500 is offered only with a dual-clutch automatic transmission. The Camaro ZL1 1LE, by contrast, has always been offered with only a manual transmission.
Astronomers have used X-ray data from the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory along with data from the ESA XMM-Newton combined with UV data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to gather new evidence that could make astronomers re-evaluate their understanding of the universe. The data gathered lends proof that an invisible force called dark energy may be getting stronger over time. Before the new data, dark energy was thought to be constant over time.
Researchers are always looking for new materials that can help power electronics and medical devices in the future. MIT has made a breakthrough with a new material that makes that goal closer to reality. The breakthrough is thanks to a fully flexible device that can convert WiFi signals into electricity that could power devices.
Gazoo Racing is normally building modern racing cars or out racing. It built a racing car recently that is far from modern, and looks a bit odd but is totally awesome. The vehicle is a restoration of a classic Toyota racing car that won the very first Suzuka 500km race in the mid-60s.
A group of researchers from Penn University, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the University of Cambridge have made a breakthrough with a new material that is very strong, yet very light. The material is a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium, but four to five times lighter. The material has nanoscale pores on its surface that are made using a self-assembly process making the porous metal similar to natural materials like wood.
Engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California have started transmission a new set of commands to the Opportunity rover to try and get the rover to phone home. NASA promised that it would reassess the situation for the rover this month in October of last year, and is making good on that promise. Opportunity stopped communicating with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a massive dust storm blanketed the Red Planet.
Mazda has pulled the covers off the new 2019 Mazda3, and we already know that the cars will have new tech to woo buyers. Mazda says that its KODO design is applied to the sedan hood, cabin, and trunk and is meant to evoke elegance and sleekness. The horizontal flow of the car accentuates the wide, and low stance with a calmness says Mazda.
The NASA New Horizons mission is currently out in the Kuiper Belt having a little look around. The spacecraft flew by an object called Ultima Thule, known formally as Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. The flyby of the object was on January 1.
The Hubble space telescope has been in space for many years now. Of late it has had some challenges, including one that left its Wide Field Camera 3 non-functional for a while. Hubble is back at work, and scientists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have shared a new image that took three years to produce. The photo is the deepest image of the Universe ever taken from space.