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Evening Standard
Technology
Rachelle Abbott and Mark Blunden

Tech & Science Daily podcast: Billions of objects revealed in Milky Way

An astonishing 3.3 billion-plus cosmic objects in our Milky Way have been revealed in stunning detail for the first time.

The vast inventory of celestial entities - from baby stars to vast, colourful cloud of dusts and gases - was created from the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, run by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

The project took two years and the Dark Energy Camera generated 21,500 exposures of the sky, creating a huge 10-terabytes of data.

A study believed to be the first of its kind has discovered ultraviolet light-emitting drying lamps used for gel manicures could damage your DNA.

The research co-author from the University of California told Tech & Science Daily the skin cancer concerns around UV drying lamps used in gel manicures at nail and beauty salons after research shows the process can damage DNA.

Plus, Boston Dynamics’ strong biped humanoid robot Atlas, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX rebirth idea, cybercriminals’ earning plunge, wind farms’ UK EV revolution, record-breaking toad in Australia and penguins seen from space.

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