Worm supermoon will illuminate the sky this weekend – CNN
(CNN)A supermoon heralding spring will light up the sky Sunday and Monday. The true full moon occurs Monday, but it will appear full for three days from early Sunday until early Wednesday, according to NASA. For those in the US, March's full moon also happe…
3 Possible Careers For Antonio Gates Now That He’s Retiring from the NFL
After 16 years in the NFL, Los Angeles Chargers tight end Antonio Gates is retiring from the NFL. With over $70 million in career earnings, he can certainly afford to take his time figuring out what he is going to do next. For the immediate future, it seems he will remain with the Chargers as…
Beyond your doorstep: What you buy and where you live shapes land-use footprint –...
Princeton researchers developed a tool for examining consumption-based land footprints and found that when direct land-use such as housing is combined with indirect land-use through the consumption of goods and services, each of our imprints on the land could be significantly higher than most people are aware. They identified five individual actions (at left) that…
Watch PewDiePie Roast Fortnite Star Ninja After Shock Twitch Exodus
PewDiePie lays into Ninja as he weighs in on the Fortnite streamer's departure from Twitch for Microsoft-owned platform Mixer. | Source: PewDiePie/YouTube (i), Sarah Stier / Getty Images / AFP (ii). Image Edited by CCN.After yesterday's explosive news that Fortnite streamer Ninja is leaving Amazon's Twitch and moving his entire operation over to Microsoft-owned platform…
Xbox Isn’t Done With Big Game Announcements: Phil Spencer
Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirms that his team isn’t done with big game announcements in 2019. Several major Xbox game reveals were made at the X019 event. Games like Obsidian’s Grounded and Rare’s Everwild were two of the games announced. Speaking to IGN at X019, Xbox boss Phil Spencer teased more to come from his…
Chinese scientists created ‘monkey pigs’ by adding primate cells to pig embryos – BGR
If there’s one thing sci-fi movies have taught us over the year it’s that combining one animal with another animal almost always ends badly. Scientists in China aren’t trying to create mutant monsters, but they did successfully create baby pigs with monkey cells. Yes, you read that correctly. As NewScientist reports, a team of researchers…
March supermoon, a ‘worm moon,’ will dazzle skies Monday – CNET
A brilliant full moon rises at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2017. NASA/Kim Shiflett The next supermoon of the year will put on a bright show Monday night. A supermoon occurs when a full moon is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, called "perigee," making it brighter and bigger than a regular…
NASA scientists track Greenland’s melting ice, and the findings are not good – MarketWatch
ABOARD A NASA RESEARCH PLANE OVER GREENLAND — The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as 15-story buildings. Like nearly every other glacier on Greenland, the massive Kangerlussuaq is…
Elon Musk Bought 300 Hectares for a New Gigafactory That May Be Unusable
Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin has hit a major stumbling block as activists try to block its construction. Google was once thwarted by local activists when trying to open a tech start-up incubator. Elon Musk’s claims that the Gigafactory will have a net positive environmental impact aren’t enough to assuage environmentalists’ worries. Elon Musk was on the…
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See the First Eerie NASA Images of DART’s Asteroid Crash Site – CNET
On Monday, the world watched as a little NASA spacecraft called DART met its explosive end. This box, slightly bigger than an oven and winged with solar panels, had been fated to die since it left Earth in November. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test's mission was simple: Crash into a large asteroid so scientists can see whether…
Uncovering Hidden Patterns: AI Reduces a 100,000-Equation Quantum Physics Problem to Only Four Equations...
Abstract quantum physics illustration.Scientists trained a machine learning tool to capture the physics of electrons moving on a lattice using far fewer equations than would typically be required, all without sacrificing accuracy.A daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations has been compressed into a bite-size task of as few as four equations by…
Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way’s black hole at ‘mind-blowing’ velocity –...
Home News The orbit of the newly discovered rapid hot spot around Sagittarius A* superimposed on top of the first image of the supermassive black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration. (Image credit: EHT Collaboration, ESO/L. Calçada (Acknowledgment: M. Wielgus)) (opens in new tab)Astronomers have detected a blob of hot gas whizzing…
