The chorus of the concept track for the movie Fame, carried out by actress Irene Cara, consists of the line “I’m gonna live eternally.” Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer. But a literal expression of this hubris resonates in some corners of the […]
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The Longest Known Earthquake Lasted 32 Years
A devastating earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 1861 was extended considered to be a sudden rupture on a formerly quiescent fault. But new exploration finds that the tectonic plates under the island experienced been bit by bit and quietly rumbling from each and every other for […]
People May Have Used Fire to Clear Forests More Than 80,000 Years Ago
Humanity’s environmental impact did not start with the bang of agriculture or industrialization but a whisper initiated lengthy ago—one that experts are eventually finding out to hear. New archaeological and paleoenvironmental findings now date human exercise that reworked our normal environment to additional than 80,000 many years in the past, […]
Stalagmites Embody Clock-Like Chronicles of Time Over Thousands of Years
Deep underground, in mysterious caverns that feel pretty much measureless to individuals, caves have devised their individual bizarre methods of trying to keep time as the eternities go by. Around millennia, a ponderous trade normally takes put so slowly, it would make the expanding of grass search motion-packed in comparison. […]
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought — ScienceDaily
The initial emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth throughout the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion decades back) has vital implications for plate tectonics, ocean chemistry, and organic evolution, and it took place about 50 percent a billion a long time before than beforehand assumed, in accordance to […]
Celebrating 60 Years of Humans in Space
When cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the to start with human to fly in place, he also grew to become an prompt superstar, a diplomatic icon of the Soviet Union around the environment. Gagarin blasted off Earth 60 a long time ago on Monday (April 12), kicking off the era of human spaceflight. […]
Humans were apex predators for two million years
Scientists at Tel Aviv University ended up equipped to reconstruct the nourishment of stone age individuals. In a paper posted in the Yearbook of the American Actual physical Anthropology Association, Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai of the Jacob M. Alkov Section of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, with […]
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: April 2021
1971 Present day Glass “A process whereby plate glass of higher high quality is built by floating it around a tub of molten tin is fast changing the traditional plate-glass process in the U.S. The float process, formulated in England about 10 yrs in the past by the glass-generating firm […]
Fossils Reveal Cephalopods May Be 30 Million Years Older Than We Thought
The course of marine animals known as cephalopoda – which currently contains squids, octopuses, and cuttlefishes – could have been all-around on Earth 30 million a long time before than earlier considered, according to new investigation. What’s far more, if we do have to have to reset the timings on […]
Nuclear Power Looks to Regain Its Footing 10 Years after Fukushima
Nuclear energy faces a wobbly long term 10 several years after an earthquake and tsunami induced a triple reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. But the industry’s unstable footing has significantly less to do with the Fukushima accident—and much more to do with how a all-natural gasoline […]
Emerging Evidence Indicates COVID-19 Pandemic Has Negatively Impacted Women in Academic STEMM Fields, Endangering Progress Made in Recent Years
Preliminary evidence indicates that the COVID 19 pandemic has negatively affected the well-being of women in academic STEMM fields in a range of areas, including productivity, work-life boundary control, networking and community building, and mental well-being, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.