dryriver shares a report from CNN: Several rival companies may be hard at work trying to get Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept off the ground, but hurtling across country — maybe even across continents — at 600 miles per hour in a low-pressure steel tube still feels far from reality. But 13-year-old New York student Caroline Crouchley may have invented a more…
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Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet
An annual global audit from the Break Free From Plastic movement has found the largest sources of plastic pollution. Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo are the top three most identified companies as sources of plastic pollution around the globe. From a report: As part of their audit, Break Free From Plastic conducted 484 cleanups in 50 countries, on six continents. According to…
The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map
Bundles of undersea fibre optic cables connecting continents form the backbone of the internet – a network that now connects more than half the world Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432530-500-the-greatest-network-the-world-has-ever-seen-the-global-internet-map/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA’s space geodesy project mapping out a bright future
In April 2019, an international team of more than 300 scientists unveiled the first recorded images of a black hole, its dark shadow and vivid orange disk peering back across 55 million light years of space. Capturing images from so far away required the combined power of eight radio telescopes across four continents, working together to essentially form a massive Earth-sized…
These giant croc-like carnivores terrorized Triassic dinosaurs
Researchers have identified fossil remains as belonging to rauisuchians, predatory crocodile-like animals that fed on early dinosaurs and mammal relatives 210 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/extinct-giant-croclike-carnivores-triassic-rauisuchian…
The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World
The Americas were the last continents conquered by humanity. Now we know that those who settled there were a hardy group that first had to survive in the Arctic Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332490-500-the-first-americans-the-untold-story-of-the-pioneers-of-the-new-world/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Underground Continents May Be As Old As Earth
New analyses of volcanic rocks fill gaps in Earth’s ancient history. Source: https://www.livescience.com/underground-continents-old-as-earth.html