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Sony has announced a pair of full-frame telephoto lenses: the 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS zoom and 600mm F4 GM OSS prime. The FE 200-600 F5.6-6.3 G OSS has 24 elements, including aspherical and extra-low dispersion glass. T...

I'm very shocked at how much I liked the Sony 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G OSS after playing with it for a weekend a few weeks ago. I'm not at all saying that because I doubt Sony's ability to make a great lens, but because I fo...

The questions that kids ask about science aren't always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore. That is what inspired our series Science Question From A Toddle...

Flying can be pretty stressful. You've got all your bags and whatnot, plus the snacks you grabbed in the airport terminal, a magazine or six, and you're already a little tipsy from two hours at the airport bar... what, j...

As NASA is scrambling to land astronauts on the moon by 2024, the agency chief reminded employees today (June 10) that Mars -- not the moon -- is the agency's ultimate destination.

According to Reuters, the group of 20 finance leaders have agreed to draft plans to close international loopholes used by tech giants to reduce their tax bills.

Over the past few years, Google has been adding a ton of features to Google Maps that make its other navigation app, Waze, so popular. But that doesn't mean Waze is getting overlooked, as the company just announced a bra...

News A key obstacle to controlling on Earth the fusion that powers the sun and stars is leakage of energy and particles from plasma, the hot, charged state of matter composed of free electrons and atomic nuclei that fuel...

Natural products make some of our most potent medicines, among which macrocycles with their large carbon-rich ring systems are one class. Their size and complexity has made it difficult to emulate on Nature's success in ...

In a search for clues to what may delay or prevent Alzheimer's disease, scientists report that smarter, more educated people aren't protected from the disease, but do get a cognitive 'head start' that may keep their mind...

(Credit: Alexander Raths/Shutterstock) An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but several could do the trick. Millions of cardiovascular deaths around the world may be linked to a lack of fruit and vegetable consum...

News Air University's Squadron Officer School students pitched their initial ideas on how to better certain processes within the Air Force to Col. Wayne Straw, the school's commandant, and a panel of subject matter exper...

This is the first real effort to have a genome wide search for genes predisposing to diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

News In "Avengers: Endgame," Tony Stark warned Scott Lang that sending him into the quantum realm and bringing him back would be a "billion-to-one cosmic fluke." In reality, shrinking a light beam to a nanometer-sized po...

Governments have a wide variety of policy options at their disposal to respond to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, but many of these approaches have not been rigorously evaluated, according to a new study.

Overdose from opiates has skyrocketed. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, on average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. The high cost of antidotes such as NARCAN® prevents many fi...

News Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project. The new investigation, published in the jour...

Discovery of a new feature of a large class of pathogenic viruses may allow development of new antiviral medications for the common cold, polio, and other illnesses, according to a new study.

News In a search for clues to what may delay or prevent Alzheimer's disease, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that smarter, more educated people aren't protected from the disease, but do get a cognitive "head sta...

News Uber and other companies have a new place to test their driverless--and pilotless--technology in Fort Worth. The well-known ride-sharing company--which aims to develop an Uber Elevate air taxi system... Contributed ...

Videos On this week's episode Recon Analytics Roger Entner provides insights about what's at stake in the move from 4G to 5G, plus key differences planned for Release 16 and the economic impact of 5G on different countri...

News Ten state attorneys general including New York and California have filed a lawsuit to block the $26 billion proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, citing substantial decreases to competition and consumer harm. Staf...