An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The de facto head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, apologized on Wednesday for the corruption and union-busting scandals that have bedeviled his conglomerate, declaring that he will be the last of his family members to lead the South Korean corporate empire. During a nationally televised news conference, Mr. Lee, 51, said…
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These new maps show 16 years of ice sheet loss
Using satellite data, scientists have made precise, detailed maps of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years. How the maps were made, and what they tell us. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/new-maps-16-years-ice-sheet-loss-greenland-antarctica…
4,200-year-old burial of Bronze Age chieftain discovered under UK skate park
The Bronze Age leader’s burial had a copper dagger and a ‘strike-a-light kit.’ Source: https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-chieftain-burial.html
Samsung Wants To Rival the Human Eye With 600MP Camera Sensors
Babu Mohan writes via Android Central: In an editorial published on the company’s website, Yongin Park, who heads the Sensor Business Team at Samsung’s LSI division, has revealed that his team is working on a camera sensor that will be able to capture more detail than the human eye. As noted in the article, the human eye is said to match…
Canadian ‘Sarlacc Pit’ was hidden for centuries
A gargantuan cave in the Canadian wilderness was only recently discovered because it had been filled with ice. Situated in Wells Gray Provincial Park… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336469/canadian-sarlacc-pit-was-hidden-for-centuries…
Watch for Lyrid meteors this week
Assuming ideal conditions, you might catch 10 to 15 meteors per hour in 2020’s Lyrid meteor shower. The peak is probably Wednesday morning – April 22 – but watch the mornings before and after, too. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/lyrid-meteors-best-before-dawn…
Spica is your guide star to Omega Centauri
Omega Centauri is the largest and finest star cluster visible to the eye alone from the Northern Hemisphere. Binoculars or a telescope show even more. A dark sky is best! Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/spica-guide-to-omega-centauri…
Possible Dinosaur DNA Has Been Found
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The tiny fossil is unassuming, as dinosaur remains go. It is not as big as an Apatosaurus femur or as impressive as a Tyrannosaurus jaw. The object is a just a scant shard of cartilage from the skull of a baby hadrosaur called Hypacrosaurus that perished more than 70 million years ago….
Powerful X-ray imaging reveals new details of dinosaur embryos in eggs
To look at dinosaur embryos entombed inside 200 million year old fossil eggs, scientists used powerful X-rays to create detailed images. They wanted to see how these embryos compared to those of modern-day dinosaur relatives. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-fossil-embryo-synchrotron-x-rays…
Disney World Furloughing 43,000 Workers
Walt Disney World in Florida plans to furlough about 43,000 workers after it closed last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company and a union coalition representing the workers said. From a report: In mid-March, Disney theme parks worldwide closed, including Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California. The furloughs, which are set to begin on April 19,…