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Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona , the sun's outer atmosphere , is an alluring sight. But the subtle details and extreme ranges in the corona's brightness, although discernible to the eye, are notoriously difficult to photograph. Pictured here , however, using over 120 images and meticulous digital processing, is a detailed wide-angle image of the Sun's corona taken during the Great American Eclipse in 2017 August. Clearly visible are intricate layers and glowing caustics of an ever changing mixture of hot gas and magnetic fields . Hundreds of stars as faint as 11th magnitude are visible behind the Moon and Sun, with Mars appearing in red on the far right. The next total eclipse of the Sun ...

Health Public health states of emergencies allow health officials to act fast to control these preventable diseases. Thirty-six people in Washington have confirmed cases of measles, a highly contagious, sometimes fatal—and with vaccines, preventable—disease. The outbreak has prompted… via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2CVBiKA"

Gadgets Get ready to start your YouTube career. DJI's vlogging camera shoots super-smooth 4K video right out of the box. via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2Tn3DAr"

Space The window of Opportunity is closing. NASA hasn't given up on Opportunity just yet, but this could be the agency's last effort to reestablish contact with the rover—here's why. via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2HAPKxj"

Muscle Month No jade eggs required. While buying expensive rocks to stick up your nethers is a bad idea, maintaining a strong pelvic floor is a great one. via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2RoT4v5"

7.21: === GENERAL * Melee creeps average gold bounty reduced by 3 * Range creeps upgrade cycle gold bounty increased from +3 to +6 * Replaced the primary jungles' ancient camps with big camps * Heroes no longer gain 25% more benefit from their primary attributes (affects attributes from both items and the hero) * All heroes' primary attribute growth values increased by 15% * Health per strength increased from 18 to 20 * XP required to reach level 7->12 changed from 640/660/680/800/820/840 to 720/750/780/810/840/870 (the difference is +80/90/100/10/20/30 XP) * The following melee heroes now have +5 movement speed: Naga Siren, Underlord, Monkey King, Nyx Assassin, Bloodseeker, Riki * The following melee heroes now have +10 movement speed: Alchemist, Dragon Knight, Meepo * The following melee heroes now have +15 movement speed: Legion Commander, Lifestealer, Lycan, Sven, Ursa, Wraith King * Ranged heroes with 295 movement speed and above now have 5 less m...

7.21: === GENERAL * Melee creeps average gold bounty reduced by 3 * Range creeps upgrade cycle gold bounty increased from +3 to +6 * Replaced the primary jungles' ancient camps with big camps * Heroes no longer gain 25% more benefit from their primary attributes (affects attributes from both items and the hero) * All heroes' primary attribute growth values increased by 15% * Health per strength increased from 18 to 20 * XP required to reach level 7->12 changed from 640/660/680/800/820/840 to 720/750/780/810/840/870 (the difference is +80/90/100/10/20/30 XP) * The following melee heroes now have +5 movement speed: Naga Siren, Underlord, Monkey King, Nyx Assassin, Bloodseeker, Riki * The following melee heroes now have +10 movement speed: Alchemist, Dragon Knight, Meepo * The following melee heroes now have +15 movement speed: Legion Commander, Lifestealer, Lycan, Sven, Ursa, Wraith King * Ranged heroes with 295 movement speed and above now have 5 less m...

Health Washington is likely just the first state to experience a widespread outbreak of this scale. The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency on Friday after 26 cases of measles had erupted in Clark and King counties. via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2HBfxW4"

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Gadgets NASA’s Space Shuttle Orbiter, in 435 pieces. The best science-y jigsaw puzzles for this most auspicious National Puzzle Day. via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2WviMSf"

Magento recently addressed two vulnerabilities that could lead to command execution and local file read, a SCRT security researcher reveals.  Written in PHP, Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that is part of Adobe Experience Cloud. Vulnerabilities in Magento – and any other popular content management systems out there – are valuable to malicious actors, as they could be exploited to impact a large number of users. In September last year, SCRT's Daniel Le Gall  found  two vulnerabilities in Magento, both of which could be exploited with low privileges admin accounts, which are usually provided to Marketing users.  The first of the two security bugs is a command execution using path traversal. Exploitation, the researchers reveal, requires the user to be able to create products. The second issue is a local file read that requires the user to be able...

Magento recently addressed two vulnerabilities that could lead to command execution and local file read, a SCRT security researcher reveals.  Written in PHP, Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform that is part of Adobe Experience Cloud. Vulnerabilities in Magento – and any other popular content management systems out there – are valuable to malicious actors, as they could be exploited to impact a large number of users. In September last year, SCRT’s Daniel Le Gall  found  two vulnerabilities in Magento, both of which could be exploited with low privileges admin accounts, which are usually provided to Marketing users.  The first of the two security bugs is a command execution using path traversal. Exploitation, the researchers reveal, requires the user to be able to create products. The second issue is a local file read that requires the user to be able to create email templates.  The root cause of the first issue is a path traversal, whichLe ...

Environment A bout of cold weather doesn’t change the reality of warming global temperatures. A frigid blast of Arctic air is gushing over much of the Midwest this week, hammering many cities including Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Milwaukee. Temperatures… via Popular Science "http://bit.ly/2B8nHPW"