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22/07/2022

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11/02/2022

SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up.
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Such solar "storms" are caused by powerful explosions on the sun's surface, which spit out plasma and magnetic fields that can hit the Earth.
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The company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, said up to 40 of 49 satellites from last week's launch were hit.

10/02/2022

09/02/2022

Snapchat added more users, while it also posted a strong revenue result for Q4, as it continues to establish its role as a key connective platform for younger audiences, in alternative to the larger social media players.
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First off, on users – Snap added 13 million more daily active users in Q4, taking it up to 319 million overall.

06/02/2022

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Wal-Mart averages a profit of $1.8 million every hour.

05/02/2022

Facebook's owner Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230bn (£169bn) on Thursday, in a record daily loss for a US firm.
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Its shares fell 26.4% after quarterly figures disappointed investors.
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Meta also said that Facebook's daily active users (DAUs) had dropped for the first time in its 18-year history.
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The company's share price slide saw chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's net worth fall by $31bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

05/02/2022

Ice that took around 2,000 years to form on Mount Everest's highest glacier has melted in just 25 years, scientists have warned. Ice on the South Col Glacier (SCG) has shrunk 80 times faster than it formed, according to a new report published by international scientific journal, Nature.

04/02/2022

A one-of-a-kind black diamond dubbed the “Enigma" will go up for auction next month and is expected to sell for more around $7 million USD. The diamond was unveiled Tuesday by Sotheby’s Dubai, who says the massive black gem may have come from outer space.
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The Enigma, which has been cut to weigh exactly 555.55 carats and has 55 facets, is believed to be the largest cut black diamond in the world.

04/02/2022

The International Space Station (ISS) will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, according to Nasa.
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In a report this week, the US space agency said the ISS would crash into a part of the ocean known as Point Nemo.
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This is the point furthest from land on planet Earth, also known as the spacecraft cemetery.
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Many old satellites and other space debris have crashed there, including the Russian space station Mir in 2001.

03/02/2022

Facebook's global daily active users declined from the previous quarter for the first time, to 1.929 billion from 1.930 billion. Meta said it faced hits from Apple Inc's privacy changes to its operating system, which have made it harder for brands to target and measure their ads on Facebook and Instagram.

03/02/2022

As space facts go, this is pretty impressive. Research by Yale University scientists suggests that a rocky planet called 55 Cancri e — which has a radius twice Earth’s, and a mass eight times greater – may have a surface made up of graphite and diamond. It’s 40 light years away but visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Cancer.

02/02/2022

A new world record lightning strike of 440 miles has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, according to a Thursday announcement. The "megaflash" traveled that distance over parts of southern Brazil on Oct. 31, 2018, the WMO said. This is equivalent to the distance between Washington, DC, and Boston.

02/02/2022

Facebook's metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate.

02/02/2022

Nobody knows how the Earth got its name; all we know is that it is derived from an amalgamation of both the Old English and Old Germanic words for “ground”.

01/02/2022

Rising temperatures will reduce the area suitable for growing coffee by up to 50% by 2050. Meanwhile, some areas that are not ideal for growing coffee may become hospital to the crop.

01/02/2022

University of Illinois Chicago scientists have developed a new "artificial leaf" system to capture CO2.
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Recreating the process of natural photosynthesis in which plants turn sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into energy is a long-pursued goal in science. Often described as an "artificial leaf," these systems could play a key role in the fight against climate change, and a team of engineers has just picked up the pace with a solution that captures carbon dioxide at 100 times the rate of current technologies.

01/02/2022

Scientists in the city of Wuhan, China, the first stronghold of the corona virus, have warned that a new corona virus ‘NeoCov’ has knocked in the world. This new corona virus is very contagious and 1 in 3 infected patients can die from it. He said that this new corona has been found in South Africa. Although scientists also said that this neokov corona virus is not new. It is a matter of relief that the new corona virus has not yet spread to humans.

31/01/2022

For 20 years, a team of astronomers observed a star at the center of our galaxy orbiting a black hole.
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The star has now got close enough to the black hole for “gravitational redshift” to occur which is where the star’s light loses energy as the black hole’s gravity intensified.

30/01/2022

Some people with long Covid may have hidden damage to their lungs, a small pilot study in the UK suggests.
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Scientists used a novel xenon gas scan method to pick up lung abnormalities not identified by routine scans.
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They focused on 11 people who had not required hospital care when they first caught Covid but experienced long-lasting breathlessness after their initial infection.

30/01/2022

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Neptune’s moon Triton is the coldest known object in the solar system with an average surface temperature of -391° F.

30/01/2022

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Mercury is nearly tidally locked to the Sun and over time this has slowed the rotation of the planet to almost match its orbit around the Sun. Mercury also has the highest orbital eccentricity of all the planets with its distance from the Sun ranging from 46 to 70 million km.

29/01/2022

More than 220 new animal and plant species discovered in Greater Mekong, WWF says
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A monkey, a big-headed frog, and a knobbly newt are among 224 new species that have been discovered in a wildlife "hotspot".
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A total of 155 plants, 16 fish species, 17 amphibians, 35 reptiles, and one mammal have been found in the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia, conservation charity WWF has said.

29/01/2022

Despite an immense scientific and commercial interest, scientists have yet to find an effective way to halt hair loss, let alone reverse it. There are, of course, myriad products on the market that claim otherwise, but the vast majority are snake oil, and a few only delay the inevitable.
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Despite huge setbacks and disappointments, scientists continue to look for new ways to approach this hairy problem. The latest development of note comes from a U.S. startup called dNovo, which has used reprogrammed stem cells to grow human hair on the skin of mice.

28/01/2022

Thailand has become the first country in Asia to adopt de facto ma*****na decriminalisation, allowing residents to cultivate the plant at home.
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The country first legalised ma*****na for medical and scientific purposes in 2018, but the Narcotics Control Board has now removed it from its list of prohibited substances.
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According to health minister Anutin Charnvirakul, people can grow cannabis plants at home, but they must first notify their local government.

28/01/2022

A team of Australian astronomers have spotted a spinning object in the Milky Way periodically emitting a huge burst of energy, according to the science journal Nature.
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Natasha Hurley-Walker, an astrophysicist at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia, said the object kept appearing and disappearing over a few hours during the team’s observations, CNN reported.
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Hurley-Walker, who led the research team, said that the pulse was recorded every 18.18 minutes “like clockwork”, according to Nature.

28/01/2022

In preparation for potential hits, NASA has been working on upgrading its asteroid warning system and now, NASA's existing software has received a significant upgrade.
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The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has developed a new impact monitoring algorithm called Sentry-II, giving the software a much-needed upgrade. The previous version of asteroid detection software had been in use for 20 years.

28/01/2022

Apple's profit jumps to $34.6 billion in holiday quarter despite supply issues. The company's revenue and profit beat Wall Street expectations, easing concerns that supply chain problems and the coronavirus were a drag on sales.

27/01/2022

Russian Sleep Experiment (Graphics Warning)

27/01/2022

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To get blood through the blue whale's large body, it has massive arteries, which pump blood through the heart and into its major vital organs.
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The arteries are so large, in fact, that a full-size human could swim through them. The aorta alone measures in at over 9 inches!