The world is not just zeros and ones. We should not always face problems in a dichotomous or Manichean way. In fact, many complex problems (there are many variables), changing, lysological (difficult to define or conceptualize…
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Every day more than 17 million lightning bolts strike the Earth; 200 per second. Lightning is an electrical discharge of up to 30 million volts, enough to provide light to a city of 200,000 inhabitants for one minute. Reach…
Using the University of Hawaii's Lu'ukai remotely operated vehicle, an expedition to the western Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) aboard the RV Kilo Moana in 2018 identified several new species at 4.5...
The director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, has admitted that the number of Americans who have been infected with coronavirus is probably 10 times higher than…
425 million high-resolution images of the Sun and 20 million gigabytes of data have been summarized in [this splendid video] (NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)) courtesy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) …
With 5 million square kilometers, with a small part today emerged and mostly under the South Pacific, this old continent called Zealandia can now be explored through detailed maps.
The maps, prepared by GN…
Fugaku is installed at the RIKEN Center for Computational Sciences in Kobe, Japan. And it just turned on, becoming the most powerful supercomputer in the world just turned on.
Fugaku has achieved the number one position in…
Don't believe in what you don't see and, above all, be very careful about believing in what you see.
Although one of the most overused clichés when someone is skeptical about a certain matter is that "you only believe in what you see" or "if you saw it the way I would believe too", seeing something firsthand is not enough to …
As early as the 18th century, people did not believe in the existence of meteorites. English and French scientists did not do it either.
For them, meteorites were hypotheses as exotic as those of...
Researchers from Caltech and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reviewed satellite and ground observations of the region and performed state-of-the-art atmospheric model simulations.
What they conclude, according to a new…