As thaw accelerates, Swiss glaciers lost 10% of their volume in the last 2 years, experts say
A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter......»»
Ghost of Tsushima is a great PC port with one big problem
Ghost of Tsushima is finally on PC after four years, and although the port is excellent, it has one big problem......»»
What time is the Fury vs Usyk live stream? How to watch the undisputed boxing match
Boxing fans are about to witness the first undisputed heavyweight championship fight in 25 years. Here's how to stream the PPV event......»»
First EA Sports College Football game in over a decade officially revealed
It has been 11 years since there was an EA college football video game, but EA Sports College Football 25 is bringing the NCAA back to players......»»
Apple"s M3 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM drops to $1,199 with promo code
A coupon discount on the latest MacBook Air with a bump up to 16GB in RAM drops the price to $1,199. Plus, add 3 years of AppleCare for just $159 — a $40 savings.Get a coupon discount on Apple's M3 MacBook Air.To activate the promo code, which disc.....»»
How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time
"Static recompilation" is "the difference between weeks of work and years of work." Enlarge / "N-tel (64) Inside" (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In recent years, we've reported on multiple efforts to reverse-engi.....»»
Spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid discovered in the Mazon Creek locality
More than 300 million years ago, all sorts of arachnids crawled around the Carboniferous coal forests of North America and Europe. These included familiar ones we'd recognize, such as spiders, harvestmen and scorpions—as well as exotic animals that.....»»
NASA conducts ‘moonwalks’ in the Arizona desert for Artemis lunar mission
Being an astronaut isn't always glamorous, with years of training and research carried out on terra firma prior to a crewed mission......»»
A devastating fire 2,200 years ago preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain, down to a single gold earring
A ruined building in the middle of the Pyrenees records a tragedy for the people who lived there—a devastating fire that burned a settlement to the ground, destroying almost everything except a hidden gold earring. Now archaeologists' excavation of.....»»
Experts say coral reef bleaching near record level globally because of "crazy" ocean heat
Ocean temperatures that have gone "crazy haywire" hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off......»»
Nearly 80% of consumers would consider buying an EV in four years, Cox says
EV skeptics would consider an EV if it costs the same as a gasoline-powered alternative and if more public charging becomes available......»»
Sony listing hints at native, upscaled PS2 emulation on the PS5
Download promo promises "up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters." Enlarge / Identical cousins. (credit: Spellblade91 / Reddit) Years ago, Sony started making a select handful of "PlayStation 2 Classic.....»»
A new space mission may help physicists answer "hairy" questions about black holes
Physicists consider black holes one of the most mysterious objects that exist. Ironically, they're also considered one of the simplest. For years, physicists like me have been looking to prove that black holes are more complex than they seem. And a n.....»»
Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two—showing this has been happening for 155 million years
One of the wildest wonders of nature is the ability of some animals to reproduce by splitting in half. There is still so much we don't know about this process. So the discovery of a 155-million-year-old starfish fossil frozen partway through this pro.....»»
Wegovy Can Keep Weight Off for at Least 4 Years, Research Shows
Users receiving weekly injections saw their weight fall, plateau, and stabilize over the course of a four-year trial—but it’s still unclear how long these effects last after stopping taking the drug......»»
Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics
When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in a drastic change in properties like density and volume. Phase transitions in water are so common most of us probably don't even think about them, but phase transiti.....»»
Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most dist.....»»
Discovery may explain why Egyptian pyramids were built along long-lost Ahramat branch of the Nile
Some 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile which has long since been buried beneath farmland and desert. The findings, reported in a paper in Communication.....»»
Science is making anti-aging progress. But do we want to live forever?
Mayflies live for only a day. Galapagos tortoises can reach up to age 170. The Greenland shark holds the world record at over 400 years of life......»»
Penalties for dropping out of ecosystem services incentive programs should equal lost environmental benefits
Payment for Ecosystem Services programs (PES) are important tools that governments around the world use to improve water quality, protect forests and wildlife habitat, and sequester carbon. Under these programs, landowners—usually farmers—are pai.....»»
Here’s how many years Apple users are keeping their iPads
Alongside the 2024 iPad Pro and Air launches, CIRP has a new report that sheds light on Apple customers’ tablet upgrade cycles. Here’s how many years iPad users are waiting before buying a new model. more….....»»