The latest massive climate report paints a bleak future. In a summer of unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, floods, and all the attendant death and suffering that’s come with them, the world’s leading climate scientists have issued their starkest warning yet. Humanity’s influence on the climate is “unequivocal,” the report warns, before going on to list…
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QLED vs OLED vs everything else
Games Radar has posted a good article discussing TV display options. This forest of acronyms might seem impenetrable, but each one is important as each indicates very different attributes and characteristics from another. Despite most new TVs appearing much the same, both in appearance and specification, different panel technologies have their own pros and cons,…
What does the edge of the solar system look like?
It might be stranger than you think. That lack of symmetry comes from the sun’s movement through the Milky Way, as it experiences friction with the galactic radiation in front of it and clears out a space in its wake. “There’s a lot of plasma [charged particles] in the interstellar medium, and… the inner heliosphere,…
3 Amazon privacy settings you need to change
USA Today posted an article about privacy settings on Amazon. This tip always catches people off guard. As an Amazon customer, you have a profile visible to other Amazon users, created automatically. For details, see this USA Today story.
Universe’s biggest EXPLOSION is caught on camera
A massive gamma-ray blast… A massive gamma-ray blast more than a billion light years from Earth is the largest explosion in the Universe ever detected and recorded by astronomers. The explosive event was the death of a star and the start of its transformation into a black hole, according to experts from the German Electron…
Titanium bubbles discovered in supernova
Titanium bubbles discovered in supernova could help solve the mystery of exploding stars. Titanium has been discovered in the beautiful remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova about 11,000 light-years away. This discovery could help scientists understand what leads some giant stars to explode, according to the new study. For more, check out this CNN/MSN story.
NASA’s Hubble is back!
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back with a stunning image after a long mysterious glitch. The telescope’s first images after the debacle include a pair of colliding galaxies and a galaxy with unusual extended arms. According to NASA, most disk galaxies have an even number of spiral arms, but this one has three. For more,…
States against power-hungry PC’s?
According to The Register, Dell stopped shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states in America because they demand more energy than local standards allow. Customers seeking to purchase, for example, an Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop from Dell’s website and have it shipped to California are now presented with a message that tells…
Black Holes and energy harvesting
A colossal flare could be the first evidence energy can be extracted from black holes. a rotating black hole generates vast amounts of energy, which, theoretically, can be extracted from the ergosphere, a region that sits just on the outside of the event horizon. This has been shown both theoretically and experimentally – and now…
Do parallel universes exist?
Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse. Sounds like something from the MCU. Science fiction loves the idea of a parallel universe, and the thought that we might be living just one of an infinite number of possible lives. Multiverses aren’t reserved for “Star Trek,” “Spiderman” and “Doctor Who,” though. Real scientific…