The recurring nova T Coronae Borealis will shine as brightly as the North Star some time in the next five months, astronomers say. Sometime between now and September, a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth will flare up in the night sky, giving amateur astronomers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness this space oddity. The binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis—”northern crown”—is normally too dim to see with the naked eye. But every 80 years or so, exchanges between its two stars, which are locked in a deadly embrace, spark a runaway nuclear explosion. The lig ..read more

By Mark Jenkins Photographs by Thoko Chikondi Mount Mulanje, located at the southern end of Malawi in southern Africa, covers close to 400 square miles of steeply forested gorges and ancient stone summits. Rising more than 5,000 feet above the surrounding savanna, the massif was formed 130 million years ago, when magma, having cooled slowly beneath the surface of the earth, transformed into masses of crystallized granite. Over eons, the softer sedimentary rocks around the immense bulge of hard stone washed away. Recently, the massif, known as an inselberg, German for “island mountain,” i ..read more

Royal Research Ship (RSS) Discovery stopped at Azores, Portugal, for supplies during the 29th Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT29). The cruise departed from Southampton in the UK on October 13, 2019 and arrived at Punta Arenas in Chile on November 26, 2019, covering a meridional transect from approximately 50°N to 50°S. Credit: Bo Sha, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University A new study by researchers at the Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University, published in Science Advances, reveals that PFAS re-emit into the air from crashing ocean waves at levels c ..read more

EP-enhanced phase sensing platform. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl5037 Optical sensors serve as the backbone of numerous scientific and technological endeavors, from detecting gravitational waves to imaging biological tissues for medical diagnostics. These sensors use light to detect changes in the properties of the environment they’re monitoring, including chemical biomarkers and physical properties like temperature. A persistent challenge in optical sensing has been enhancing sensitivity to detect faint signals amid noise. New research from Lan Yang, the Edwin H ..read more

Shopping mall in Downtown Core, Singapore Funan (Chinese: 福南) is a mixed-use development comprising a retail mall, two office towers and a serviced apartment tower in the Civic District in Singapore. The new development was built on the site of the former building known as Funan DigitaLife Mall.[1] History[edit] The original mall first opened in January 1985 as Funan Centre, which provided more options for shoppers to shop at other than Orchard Road.[2] In the early 90s, the mall began to attract a critical mass of electronic and IT retailers over the years. Its main and long-time anchor t ..read more

The study highlights a critical disparity in the assessment of NBS compared to traditional engineering solutions for coastal climate adaptation. While NBS hold immense promise, they are often evaluated with less rigor, hindering their widespread adoption in climate adaptation strategies. Researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis to quantify the flood protection benefits of stakeholder-identified marsh restoration in San Francisco Bay. Focusing on San Mateo County, identified as the most vulnerable to future flooding in California, the study provides a rigorous evaluation of the efficac ..read more

On the northern edge of the Mojave Desert sits the remnants of a former boomtown. There, visitors are greeted by the crumbling concrete bones of a three-story bank and a general store’s broken facade. At the end of town, a shuttered train depot bakes beneath the desert sun. These fragmented structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns. But like several such places, this “overnight” settlement went bust as quickly as it boomed.   Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which ..read more

A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, the African continent has started emitting more carbon than it stores. When the total amount of carbon that is sequestered by natural ecosystems (such as the soil and plants in grasslands, savannas and forests) exceeds the amount of total carbon emissions within a system, it’s referred to as a net sink of carbon. But, the study found, as natural ecosystems are converted for agricultural purposes, the carbon storage capacity is decreasing – while the rate of emissions is increasing. Yolandi Ernst of the University of the Witwatersrand ..read more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Content deleted Content added Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit   Line 22: Line 22: | trainer = | trainer = | years_active = 2021-present | years_active = 2021-present | kickbox_win = 24 | kickbox_win = | kickbox_kowin = 8 | kickbox_kowin = | kickbox_loss = | kickbox_loss = | kickbox_koloss = | kickbox_koloss = | kickbox_draw = | kickbox_draw = Latest revision as of 15:34, 6 April 2024 French kickboxer Alexis Nicolas Born (1998-07-14) 14 July 1998 (age 25) Paris, Fran ..read more

In a statement following a briefing last week by Bintou Keita, the head of the UN mission, MONUSCO, ambassadors condemned all armed groups operating in the country and demanded the immediate cessation of hostilities and of any further advances by the M23. They expressed concern over ongoing displacement in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu and called on all donors to scale up support in response to the 2024 humanitarian response plan. Safe, timely and unhindered access They called on all parties, in particular the M23 and Congolese armed groups, to provide safe, timely and unhindered human ..read more