One of the world’s most renowned photo festivals, in the French town of Arles, returned this week with a timely ode to diversity at a moment when France is turning towards the far right. The Rencontres festival, which runs until September 29, is spread across 27 venues in the ancient cobbled streets of this former […]
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KRIEGERS FLAK OFFSHORE WIND FARM, Denmark (AP) — In a small boat bobbing in the waves between towering offshore wind turbines, researchers in Europe’s Baltic Sea reach into the frigid water and remove long lines stretched between the pylons onto which mussels and seaweed are growing. It’s part of efforts to explore multiple uses for […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Two opposite types of faults, normal and reverse, help explain our undersea mountain ridges. Scientists found that larger normal faults gave way to narrower ones caused by “unfaulting.” This unfaulting explains why there are surprising “reversal earthquakes” under the oceans. […]
Fani Willis, the prosecutor in the sweeping Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump, said no one is above or “beneath” the law in her victory speech, sharing that she plans on celebrating with vodka. The Georgia district attorney has been on the receiving end of scrutiny by many Republicans in the state […]
Molten salt reactors are part of a technology gaining traction that could solve several challenges facing the nuclear industry, as Power magazine covered in an April feature. MSRs use molten salts as both a coolant and fuel carrier, a concept that dates back to the 1950s. In 1965, Oak Ridge National Laboratory successfully operated an […]
Claim: As of April 2024, hundreds of people live in tunnels beneath Las Vegas. Rating: Rating: True On April 20, 2024, a 2-year-old video resurfaced on the internet of a person emerging from a manhole in the middle of an intersection in Las Vegas. In one Facebook post, it was captioned: “This is in Las […]
More commonly associated with California than New Jersey, was the first many Northeasterners had ever felt. The temblor, which measured 4.8 on the Richter scale, was considered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), meaning that it occurred at a depth of zero to 70 kilometers below ground. The energy released by an earthquake is weakened […]
What a joy, bobbing gently in the waves off one of Florida’s spectacular beaches. But how much do you let your mind wander to what’s lurking just beneath your toes? Maybe you don’t want to know — out of sight, out of mind. Or maybe your curiosity gets the better of you. If so, there’s […]
What does Wisconsin have in common with the Hawaiian Islands, Florida Keys and California’s Channel Islands? They all are home to national marine sanctuaries. The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 15 places in the country that have received the designation from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Marine sanctuaries help to protect […]
White dwarfs are the stars that will be left behind when stars like the sun “die,” smoldering away in space as cooling stellar embers. Recent observations indicated that some of these stellar corpses may actually take longer to cool off than previously expected. This means that white dwarfs may have a way of generating energy […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have uncovered additional evidence that one of Saturn’s smallest moons, Mimas, is hiding a global ocean beneath its icy surface. Building a stronger case for the presence of water — essential to life as we […]