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Supercomputer simulation re-enacts the birth of the Moon Spinning the story a bit… Researchers at Durham University developed supercomputer simulations, showing how thisancient collisionmay have unfolded. The velocity of Theia and the angle of impact affected the collision, as did the rotational rate of the body. The team of investigators examined a wide range of possible conditions, ranging from no spin to a quick rotation, and from glancing blows to more direct impacts....

SuperMama, a brand new site catering to Middle Eastern mothers and families, launched at the beginning of October. The bilingual Arabic and English site provides information for mothers and mothers-to-be, provides a platform for an online community to come together and interact, and even provides its users with a toolbox to manage tasks, both at home or at work, keep track of your budget, and your health. The story behind SuperMama SuperMama co-founders Yasmine El-Mehairy and Zeinab Samir met 5 years ago when they were colleagues at an Egyptian IT services company OpenCraft, which didn’t make it through the 2009 economic crisis....

The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during theearly hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse, and a red blood moon all at once. So what does this all mean? The Moon appears 12% bigger when it is closest to Earth compared with its appearance when it’s farthest away. Credit: Tomruen/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA...

ClipDoubleris a Mac OS X app that enhances the functionality of the built in Mac clipboard. We all know how a clipboard works. You copy some stuff (usually text) and it is stored temporarily in the clipboard before you paste into another screen or app. As soon as you copy another snippet of data, the previously stored information is deleted to store the new one. While not very efficient, for most of the day to day tasks, this limited functionality is more than enough....

United Airlines has announced it will purchase up to 50Boom Overture supersonic jetsfor commercial use by 2029, heralding the return of supersonic passenger flights nearly 20 years after the Concorde wasdecommissioned. Supersonic planes halve the time it takes to fly from New York to London, from seven hours down to 3.5 hours, but such airliners were abandoned following Concorde’s final flight in 2003. Concorde had becomefinancially unworkableafter ahigh-profile crashin 2000, combined with excessive ticket prices, high fuel consumption, and increasingly high maintenance costs....