The Doomsday Clock — a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour — maintains last year’s time. Source: https://www.livescience.com/doomsday-clock-2021.html
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Study rules out dark matter destruction as origin of extra radiation in galaxy center
The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evidence of the annihilation of dark matter particles, but a team led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine has ruled out that interpretation. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dark-destruction-extra-galaxy-center.html…
After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform
It took five decades, but the Democratic Party has finally changed its stance on nuclear energy. In its recently released party platform, the Democrats say they favor a “technology-neutral” approach that includes “all zero-carbon technologies, including hydroelectric power, geothermal, existing and advanced nuclear, and carbon capture and storage.” Robert Bryce writes via Forbes: That statement marks the first time since 1972…
Buried GitHub archival storage to last 1,000 years
If civilization ever succumbs to global warming, nuclear annihilation, an unrelenting pandemic or a martian invasion, some future civilization—or alien life form—might well still be able to reconstruct today’s computers and compose advanced machine learning algorithms … and perhaps even play a round of Doom while they’re at it. …
Millions of Gargantuan Plasma ‘Spicules’ Might Be Spreading Heat Around the Sun’s Atmosphere
The sun’s surface is covered by millions of enormous plasma jets known as spicules at any given moment. Now, researchers think they know why. Source: https://www.livescience.com/solar-spicules-magnetic-field-annihilation.html
Your Brain ‘Shields’ Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
Our brains can’t understand “the idea of ending, of nothing, of complete annihilation.” Source: https://www.livescience.com/brain-shields-idea-death.html