As Hurricane Larry curved north in the Atlantic in 2021, sparing the eastern seaboard of the United States, a special instrument was waiting for it on the coast of Newfoundland. Because hurricanes feed on warm ocean water, scientists wondered whether such a storm could pick up microplastics from the sea surface and deposit them when … Read more
TOPSHOT – Aerial view of the Essequibo region taken from Guyana on December 12, 2023. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, will meet on December 14, 2023 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, on their countries’ growing dispute over the oil-rich region of Essequibo, amid mounting international warnings against escalating the … Read more
SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — NASA has made history once again as they successfully streamed a video from 19 million miles away. The ultra-high definition streaming video experiment was conducted on Dec. 11 by NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) team, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California reported Monday. JPL says the technology is … Read more
A woman from Dartmouth, N.S. now holds the most academic degrees of any woman in history, making her an official world record holder, according to the World Record Academy. “I have 32 of them,” Dr. Stephanie Attwater said. But her diplomas and degrees didn’t come easily. Attwater was involved in a severe car accident 20 … Read more
‘We will succeed, you will see’ – Pochettino relishing Chelsea challenge Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Chelsea host Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals tonight as both Premier League teams look to secure their place … Read more
Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species resignedly given the name “Enigmocarpon.” The new … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A recent study out of Michigan State University found significant variations in career interests between men and women. Surprisingly, even with these interest differences, gender gaps in career opportunities are more substantial than anticipated. The study also noted that these gender differences are more pronounced at lower education levels. This suggests … Read more
About 12% of the world’s bird species have been driven to extinction by human activity, new research has found – double previous estimates. The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, estimates that about 1,430 bird species have died out since the Late Pleistocene period, which started about 120,000 years ago. Known bird extinctions, identified … Read more
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There’s a bit of a battery manufacturing boom going on. In 2021, battery manufacturing in the United States totaled approximately 55 gigawatt-hours’ worth of cells, or roughly enough batteries to produce 700,000 EVs. By 2030, that production is expected to top 1,000GWh, growing by nearly a factor of 20. Billions of dollars in incentives such … Read more
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Many eyes will turn to the sky on Saturday to catch a glimpse of an extremely rare “ring of fire” solar eclipse. But experts are cautioning against looking directly at the eclipse to avoid serious eye damage. An annular eclipse occurs while the Moon is near or at the farthest point in its orbit around … Read more
