2019-03-01
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This Month’s Heatwave Melted 18 Gigatons of Greenland’s Ice Sheet
August 3, 2022The recent heat wave that baked both Europe and North America also had a major impact on the world's largest island: temperatures across Greenland spiked during the same time period, causing a major melt event that released 18 billion tons of water... continued
The New Level of Quantum Computing: A 9,000-Year Computer Problem Solved in Just 36 Microseconds
August 1, 2022Another milestone has been reached in the realm of quantum computing, with a Canadian company reporting that they have run a complex benchmarking problem through their new equipment that produced a solution that would have taken a conventional supercomputer 9,000... continued
The Pentagon and Congress Expand the Military’s UAP Investigative and Reporting Powers
July 29, 2022The Pentagon has established a new office tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The AARO will replace the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), established just last November, and is intended to expand... continued
Climate Watch: What Can We Do to Save our World? (Hint: It’s not Hard or Expensive and We can do It Right Now)
July 24, 2022I have updated Climate Watch, and I am publishing part of the update here because it departs significantly from previous updates in that includes practical ideas that can be used right now to make significant and useful changes that will... continued
Europe and the US are Sweltering Under Deadly Heat Waves—With More to Come
July 21, 2022Western Europe is baking under the effects of an intense heat wave that is producing not only record-breaking temperatures—including the first time in history that London, UK, has hit 40°C (104°F)—but also major wildfires across the continent. Similar conditions are... continued
How Crystals and Cosmic Rays Extend the Age of Humanity’s Ancestors by More Than One Million Years
July 19, 2022Through analysis of particles from space scientists may have pushed back the age of some of the oldest-known fossils of one of humanity's early ancestors, the hominid known as Australopithecus, by more than one million years. This discovery stands to... continued
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Stunning First Images
July 15, 2022On July 12, NASA released the first full images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), offering a deeper, more detailed look at a quintet of celestial phenomena. Aside from being 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space... continued
WHO Calls for Investigation Into Lab-leak as Possible Coronavirus Origin
July 13, 2022The World Health Organization group tasked with tracking down the origin of the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is strongly recommending that a deeper investigation be made into the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have been released into... continued
The End of an Era: NASA Announces the Shutdown of Interstellar Voyager Probes
July 11, 2022NASA has announced that after nearly a half-century of studying the outer reaches of the Solar System—and beyond—the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes will be shut down over the course of the next few years. Although both probes... continued
Recent Findings Regarding Convergent Evolution May Mean Many of Our Evolutionary Trees Are Wrong
July 8, 2022The evolutionary trees that we use to define the relationships between different species could be very wrong, according to researchers that study the genetic connections between various species, both contemporary and extinct. These extended family trees connecting all living things... continued