Most of us associate sinkholes with frightening abysses, but in China, they’re considered “heavenly” for good reason. Far from being mouths of doom, a number of these have been discovered containing pristine ancient forests. Most recently, in August last year, cave explorers stumbled upon one of these giant holes, whichContinue Reading
Huge stars that collapse to create black holes may vomit out a lot more material during their lifespan than initially thought, according to a new study. The stars in question have masses more than 100 times that of our sun and a team of scientists has estimated these stars mustContinue Reading
Many modern devices – from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines – rely on strong magnets made from a type of minerals called rare earths. As the systems and infrastructure used in daily life have turned digital and the United States has moved toward renewable energy, accessing these minerals has become criticalContinue Reading
Five Years Ago This week in 2020… remember Parler? The uncensored free speech social media platform? Well, it was changing its tune and starting to ban users as it embarked on a speedrun of the content moderation learning curve (and we also noted some striking clauses in its terms ofContinue Reading
Hollywood Burbank Airport, also known as Bob Hope Airport, is a lesser-known excellent option for domestic flying in the United States. This airport is substantially smaller than its rivalLos Angeles International Airport, which welcomes over 76 million passengers annually. Yet, LAX is unpopular with passengers for several reasons, leading manyContinue Reading
This April, Airbus celebrated the 20th anniversary of the A380’s maiden flight. This jet has been built 254 times and has broken countless records, including being the only aircraft with over 500 seats and the only full-length double-decker aircraft. This can reach over 800 passengers in an all-economy configuration. AirbusContinue Reading
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I was trying to update my CachyOS system with in the usual Arch way when I encountered this ‘failed to synchronize all databases’ error. sudo pacman -Syu [sudo] password for abhishek: :: Synchronizing package databases… error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database) The fix was rather simple.Continue Reading
When the first company crossed a trillion dollars, it was amazing. And now you’re talking four trillion, which is just incredible. It tells you that there’s this huge rush with AI spending and everybody’s chasing it right now,” Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading…Continue Reading
Japanese quails were the first birds to be incubated and hatched in space. (Image credit: STERKL / Alamy Stock Photo) QUICK FACTS Name: Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) Where it lives: Steppes and meadows in Asia, notably China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia. It’s also found in Africa and parts of Europe. Some populations are migratory. What itContinue Reading
An illustration of The Exploration Company’s Nyx spacecraft reentering Earth’s atmosphere. (Image credit: The Exploration Company/ESA) We’ve sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloadsContinue Reading
A glut of new features were added to Gradia, a Linux screenshot markup tool built using GTK4/libadwaita, since I last wrote about it a few weeks back. Gradia was already a solid app with a focused feature set and a UI that, dare I say it, is delightful to use 1 ,Continue Reading
An international team of scientists has sequenced the whole genome from an adult male Egyptian who lived between over 4,500 years ago — a few centuries after Egyptian unification, bridging the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. The post Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian appeared first on Sci.News:Continue Reading