New Orleans is facing down its first Category 3 hurricane since Katrina decimated the city 12 years ago, and three of the city’s five power turbines are out. In addition, 15 of the Crescent City’s 120 pumps remain offline due to repairs. With Hurricane Harvey expected to dump heavy rainfall […]
Daily Archives: August 24, 2017
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Britons would be willing to pay a staggering 21 per cent more than the national average house price for the better quality of life and cleaner air that comes from living in the countryside, independent new research shows. More than 2,000 UK residents were asked for their views on relocating […]
The Gunners head to Anfield on Sunday as they look to recover from their disappointing defeat to Stoke last weekend. But the defeat didn’t look to be playing on the minds of Arsene Wenger’s star men as they were put through their paces at London Colney today. Alexis Sanchez in […]
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) occurred about 250 million years ago and represents the Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event.
The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its amazing array of dinosaurs, immaculately preserved in incredible detail and in associations that give exceedingly rare glimpses at behavior in the fossil record.
A physicist has for the first time used advanced models to accurately simulate key characteristics of the cyclic behavior of edge-localized modes, a particular type of plasma instability. The findings could help physicists more fully comprehend the behavior of plasma, the hot, charged gas that fuels fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped […]
The First Order may have suffered a set back at the end of the Force Awakens, but they are coming out fighting in Episode 8. In fact, Snoke and his armies have just unveiled some spectacular (and terrifying) new weapons and hardware. The official Star Wars Youtube channel just revealed […]
Biological “detectives” are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia (“rabbit fever”), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives. Sounding the alarm over a bioattack, only to find it’s a harmless relative in the same genus, reduces credibility and public trust. New work is […]