What causes pools below waterfalls to periodically fill with sediment?
Deep pools below waterfalls are popular recreational swimming spots, but sometimes they can be partially or completely filled with sediment. New research showed how and why pools at the base of waterfalls, known as plunge pools, go through natural cy.....»»
Dealerships explore chat options instead of lead forms
Some dealerships are exploring ways to engage with customers while they're actively shopping online instead of following up after they fill out a website form......»»
How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that just raised $10M
As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. Noticing that a neighbor’s pool was often empty, Laskin reached out to ask if his family could use her pool. To make it.....»»
GM moves up Ontario truck output to Q4; hiring nearly 1,700
The automaker is looking to fill nearly 1,700 new unionized jobs — 1,500 of them production workers — at its Oshawa, Ontario, assembly plant......»»
"I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them"
Dr Fill , a computer program, has just won one of the most prestigious crossword competitions in the US......»»
Spacecraft magnetic valve used to fill drinks
A precision magnetic valve originally designed to help steer a lander down to a comet has found a surprise terrestrial use through ESA's Technology Transfer and Patent Office: adding flavors to beverages within a few thousandths of a second per each.....»»
Cave deposits show surprising shift in permafrost over the last 400,000 years
Nearly one quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, amounting to some 9 million square miles, is layered with permafrost—soil, sediment, and rocks that are frozen solid for years at a time. Vast stretches of permafrost can be found in Alaska.....»»
Lockdowns Cut South Asia Smog. They Could Fill Reservoirs, Too.
Cleaner skies over South Asia that resulted from pandemic lockdowns last year likely affected the timing of snowmelt in the Indus River basin of Pakistan and India, researchers reported on Monday. From a report: The lockdowns cut emissions of soot an.....»»
Researchers rescue endangered black abalone buried by debris flows
The Big Sur coast is prime habitat for black abalone and has had one of the few remaining healthy populations of this endangered species. So when heavy winter rains triggered debris flows from the Dolan Fire burn scar, dumping tons of sediment onto t.....»»
Software Program Dr.Fill Finally Wins Prestigious Crossword Puzzle Event
Long-time Slashdot reader gregstumph writes: Dr.Fill, a software program that solves crossword puzzles, finished in first place at the 2021 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, for the first time ever (its previous best was 11th place in 2017). Dr.....»»
Sinkholes fill Turkey"s breadbasket in drought
Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes......»»
Hidden magma pools pose eruption risks that we can"t yet detect
Boulder, Colo., USA: Volcanologists' ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth's crust. But what happens if the magma can't be spotted?.....»»
Home gym startup Tempo raises $220M to meet surge in demand for its workout device
When the pandemic forced everyone to stay at home last year, many gym-goers looked to at-home fitness makers to fill the void for their cardiovascular and strength-training workouts. To help meet that demand, Tempo, the five-year-old fitness startup.....»»
Wyze Home Monitoring review: Great savings, gaps to fill
Are you making any compromises by choosing the ultra-affordable Wyze Home Monitoring over other systems?.....»»
LMP CFO Bernstein resigns after 8 months
LMP Automotive has launched a search for a replacement and CEO Samer Tawfik will fill in temporarily......»»
How baked bat guano helped archaeologists understand our ancient past
In an experiment to understand better how ancient artifacts are altered by the sediment in which they are buried for thousands of years, Australian archaeological scientists buried bones, stones, charcoal and other items in bat guano, cooked it, and.....»»
Huge volcanic eruption didn"t cause climate change and mass extinction 140 million years ago
Mass extinctions are times in Earth's past when large proportions of life suddenly and catastrophically died. These have occurred periodically over the past 550 million years. The exact causes of these extinctions are not fully understood, but there.....»»
Renesas reportedly seeking capacity support from Taiwan foundries
Renesas Electronics is reportedly seeking capacity support from TSMC and other Taiwan-based foundries to fill its supply shortfall caused by the suspension of its fire-damaged fab......»»
Deadly heat waves will be common in South Asia, even at 1.5 degrees of warming
Residents of South Asia already periodically experience heat waves at the current level of warming. But a new study projecting the amount of heat stress residents of the region will experience in the future finds with 2 degrees Celsius of warming, th.....»»
Rare fossilized algae, discovered unexpectedly, fill in evolutionary gaps
When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada's remote Yukon territory, she was hoping to find microscopic fossils of early life. Even with detailed field plans, the odds of finding just the right rocks were low......»»
Neglected species: "Living fossil" sturgeon on the brink of extinction
Depending on your political affiliation, the words "Sturgeon in peril" may fill you with delight, despair or indifference. For those of us at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), however, this kind of headline is already old news......»»