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The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of the city's electrical systems. Experts linked the unanticipated damage to what they came to call the electromagnetic pulse.
They block roads, eat houses, and spread literal brain worms. Only Florida knows how to deal with them.
A patch of seafloor off Turkey's Mediterranean coast has yielded what archaeologists say is the oldest shipwreck ever found. Dated to roughly 4,400 to 4,700 years ago around the era the Great Pyramid was going up in Egypt the 33-foot-long trade vessel lies nearly 100 feet under the...
GeekSpin - 22 hours 13 min agoA sailor scratched a mark into their drinking cup more than 2,000 years ago, probably so nobody else on the ship would use it. A joint expedition, comprising Croatian Conservation Institute (HRZ) archaeologists led by Jurica Bezak of the underwater archaeology department and local divers from Vis, has now recovered that cup from a shipwreck […] Read the original article here: Divers find sailors’ belongings frozen in 300 B.C. shipwreck . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking...
Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Ni o is here to make matters even worse.
In communities across America, people recovering from floods, storms and wildfires have been left waiting much longer for federal aid if it arrives at all.
The latest front in the ongoing global transformer shortage may be a disagreement over steel. To be precise, that steel is a specialty called grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES). It's a key ingredient in the majority of the world's transformers and in Europe, it's now a trade flashpoint. Last month, the European Commission, the European Union's main executive branch, significantly raised the cost of importing GOES from outside the EU. While EU steelmakers believe the measures...
Mother Jones - 1 day 1 hour agoLast week, less than a month after rolling back power plant pollution standards, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin addressed an audience of oil and gas executives at the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association's annual meeting in Santa Fe. The environmental agency was "within days," he told them, of releasing the draft reconsideration of […]...
A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar-energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season.
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 4 hours agoI recently came across this bucket at one of our local coffee shops a common drop and collection point for free goods, from books and magazines to excess zucchinis and figs. The bucket and its sign reminded me how much I like this dusty little town and its inhabitants, human and wild. So I called […] The post A Village to Feed a Fawn appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours agoFor decades, astronomers have searched for Planet Nine, a mysterious world believed to be hiding far beyond Neptune at the edge of our solar system. Now, scientists may have uncovered the strongest clue yet that this elusive planet really exists, potentially bringing them closer to solving one of astronomy's biggest mysteries. The discovery could change […] Read the original article here: Astronomers find first direct evidence of Planet Nine . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking...
Nature - 1 day 12 hours agoAlveolar type 2 cells can migrate from the lung's air sacs into the airways to repair damage there.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 12 hours agoThroughout this 40th anniversary year of Australian Geographic we're looking back at a selection of stories we've run over the decades. This feature article was published in Issue 78 of the magazine, in April 2005. The post Sugar and strife appeared first on Australian Geographic .
PBS Newshour - 1 day 14 hours agoRecord high temperatures this year forced European wine producers to harvest grapes much earlier than usual. French wineries fear it will lead to the worst season in 30 years. But Nordic newcomers to the world of wine are toasting what they believe will be a vintage harvest, thanks, in no small part, to climate change. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports from Sweden. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 16 hours agoParticle accelerator experiments could reveal evidence of this obscure part of the universe.
NPR - 1 day 16 hours agoNASA's Mars rover Perseverance has just hit a milestone for the longest distance traveled by an off-Earth vehicle.
NPR - 1 day 16 hours agoNASA's Mars rover Perseverance has just hit a milestone for the longest distance traveled by an off-Earth vehicle.
Solar geoengineering simulation shows what happens when geopolitics takes over.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 21 hours agoIn March, Thomas Harvey sat in on a talk at the American Physical Society's summit in Denver on a new model of the universe that claimed to eliminate the need for dark matter and dark energy. William George, a fluid dynamicist who spent his career studying turbulence and an emeritus professor at Chalmers University of … Continue reading Authors respond with a bit like a threat' after journal reveals postdoc's identity...
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An infamous Chicago cold case has ended with an accusation against a man who once investigated killings for the city. The Guardian reports that Chicago police have now named former homicide detective Thomas McInerney as the person who abducted and fatally shot 8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz in 1960 more than 65...
The Plaskett Fire burning in California in August.
As a teenager, Gillian Maegan Montalbo had pimples that weren't too bad just a few bumps on her forehead and nose.
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