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It’s almost a mantra in climate science: The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. But that figure, found in scientific studies, advocacy reports, the popular press, and even the 2021 U.N. climate assessment, is incorrect, obscuring the true toll of global warming on the north, a team of climate … Read more
A good pair of binoculars are an indispensable tool for anyone interested in astronomy, and we’ve put together our recommendations of the very best binoculars your money can buy. When choosing the best binoculars it can be tempting to go for the highest magnification, but think again. Binoculars deliver such amazing views of the night … Read more
A robot hand that has the lightness of touch to hold delicate objects and the strength to crush cans could one day be used as a prosthetic Technology 14 December 2021 By Carissa Wong A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips … Read more
SQLite is a popular relational database management system excessively used in these days. But unlike other database management systems, it’s not a client-server database engine. In fact, it’s embedded into the end program. SQLite is widely supported by various browsers, operating systems, embedded systems and many other applications. If you want an open-source and embedded … Read more
The next full moon will occur on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 11:36 p.m. EST (0426 Dec. 19 GMT), but the moon will appear full the night before and after its peak to the casual stargazer. The December full moon is also known as the Cold Moon. The full moon shows its face to Earth about … Read more
Astronomers have captured the deepest and sharpest images of the Milky Way’s center ever, enabling scientists to estimate the mass of the giant black hole at our galaxy’s heart with unmatched precision. The Milky Way observations, made with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, also revealed a … Read more
Astronomers have observed Sagittarius A* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy – closer than ever before, and Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity still holds up Space 14 December 2021 By Leah Crane Stars orbiting very close to Sagittarius A* (centre), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the … Read more
Emily Schwing: This is 60 Second Science, I’m Emily Schwing. The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial biome in the world. It covers 14 percent of the land on earth. [fade up sound of dogs barking] And, today, I’m with my dogs on the north side of Denali National Park and Preserve. Schwing: I’m walking … Read more
A few years back, there was a fundamental difference between Windows Dedicated Server Hosting and Linux. However, nowadays the companies that use different hosting enjoys compatible services that reduce the difference to some extent. If you invest in a wrong server or a hosting package, no amount of trying will make you satisfied. Therefore, it … Read more
In 1900 diver Elias Stadiatis, clad in a copper and brass helmet and a heavy canvas suit, emerged from the sea shaking in fear and mumbling about a “heap of dead naked people.” He was among a group of Greek divers from the Eastern Mediterranean island of Symi who were searching for natural sponges. They … Read more