Month: November 2023

Yikes…deadly pathogens lying dormant in centuries-old Arctic permafrost could become the latest threat from global climate change. The potential release of the pathogens has seized the attention of federal government scientists, medical professionals and Pentagon officials. Pathogens – disease-causing organisms – have been trapped for centuries in frozen ground across the Arctic, including vast swaths…

I’ve had a few instances to use Co-Pilot in the Edge browser and was duly impressed. Some of the items I searched for would have taken me a while to track down. Co-Pilot gave me the answer in less than five seconds. Microsoft said Thursday it will soon start testing the Copilot chatbot in an…

It’s amazing that we are still ffinding things like this. An ancient river landscape that dates back millions of years in Antarctica has been detected by scientists as buried under more than a mile of ice. The discovery gives us an insight into a long-lost Antarctic world shaped by rivers and plants. For more, check…

Two long-dormant “supervolcanoes” on two separate continents may be stirring to life. In recent months, more than a thousand minor earthquakes have rattled the area around the Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy, stoking fears that it may soon erupt again after nearly five centuries. Some 6,000 miles away, scientists have for decades recorded similarly…