Endangered Siamese crocodile in rare sighting at Thai national park

The critically endangered Siamese crocodile has been spotted for only the second time in a decade at Thailand's largest national park, according to photos released on Saturday.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-endangered-siamese-crocodile-rare-sighting.html

Warning light halts Boeing 737 MAX flight in Canada

Canadian airline Westjet on Friday cancelled a flight just prior to take-off after a warning light went off in the cockpit of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-01-halts-boeing-max-flight-canada.html

U of Louisiana-Lafayette mini-satellite zipping around Earth

A cubical satellite small enough to sit on the palm of your hand is zipping around the world and sending data about radiation to the Louisiana students who designed and built it.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-louisiana-lafayette-mini-satellite-earth.html

Chipmaker Intel Corp. blames internal error on data leak

The computer chipmaker Intel Corp. on Friday blamed an internal error for a data leak that prompted it to release a quarterly earnings report early. It said its corporate network was not compromised.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-01-chipmaker-intel-corp-blames-internal.html

'Baba Yaga' introduces with a virtual reality movie premiere

Last week Daisy Ridley and Jennifer Hudson went to a movie premiere together. They posed for photos and made remarks from a stage while an audience watched quietly.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-01-baba-yaga-virtual-reality-movie.html

New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure—the microscopic crystalline domains that form a bulk piece of metal. Smaller grains make for harder metals.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-technique-super-hard-metals-nanoparticles.html

Wet and wild: There's lots of water in the world's most explosive volcano

There isn't much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown bears and the most explosive volcano in the world.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-wild-lots-world-explosive-volcano.html