These next few nights – February 26 and 27, 2021 – watch for the full Snow Moon to light up the nighttime form dusk till dawn. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/full-snow-moon-on-feb-26-27-2021…
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Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession
After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-mars-spacecraft-quick-succession.html…
Urban Explorers Discover A Treasure Trove Of Soviet Computing Power
“The building did not stand out. Unremarkable industrial building, which was built in hundreds of Soviet cities,” explains a web site called Russian Urban Exploration. Hackaday describes what happened next:
It’s probably a dream most of us share, to stumble upon a dusty hall full of fascinating abandoned tech frozen in time as though its operators walked away one day and simply…
Double climate disaster may have ended ancient Harappan civilisation
The Harappan lived 5200 years ago in the Indus valley in huge complicated cities before the society eventually disappeared. Now it seems that two droughts in short succession could have been responsible for the downfall Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261018-double-climate-disaster-may-have-ended-ancient-harappan-civilisation/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
11 Fall Vegetables You Should Start Planting Now
Thinking of planting some fall vegetables? Here is a list of some veggies that you can add in your homestead, for a delicious fall harvest. RELATED: How to Plant Cauliflower this Fall Fruits and Vegetables Perfect For the Fall Season 1. Beets Beets are one of the most ideal crops for a fall harvest. You…Continue Reading
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A Plunge In Incoming Sunlight May Have Triggered ‘Snowball Earths’
Jennifer Chu writes via Phys.Org: At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was encased in a sheet of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in quick succession, somewhere around 700 million years ago, and evidence suggests that the consecutive global ice ages set the stage for the subsequent explosion of complex, multicellular life on Earth….
What a Week’s Disasters Tell Us About Climate and the Pandemic
The hits came this week in rapid succession: A cyclone slammed into the Indian megacity of Kolkata, pounding rains breached two dams in the Midwestern United States, and on Thursday came warning that the Atlantic hurricane season could be severe. It all served as a reminder that the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed 325,000 people so far, is colliding with another…
Scientists Get Their Best-Ever Look At Jupiter’s Atmosphere and Storms
Scientists have gotten their most detailed view of the wild storms that swirl through the gas giant’s atmosphere. Space.com reports: Every 53 days, Juno skims over Jupiter’s cloud tops in a close approach called a perijove, gathering data all the while. Among the spacecraft’s instruments is a microwave radiometer, which is tuned to identify lightning strikes and study what ammonia and…
Samsung Heir Apologizes For Corruption and Union-Busting Scandals
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…
Quantum Computing Milestone: Researchers Compute With ‘Hot’ Silicon Qubits
“Two research groups say they’ve independently built quantum devices that can operate at temperatures above 1 Kelvin — 15 times hotter than rival technologies can withstand,” reports IEEE Spectrum. (In an article shared by Slashdot reader Wave723.) “The ability to work at higher temperatures is key to scaling up to the many qubits thought to be required for future commercial-grade quantum…