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NASA will use a satellite to track Earth’s water.
NASA and French National Centre for Space Studies are launching a space mission, named SWOT, that will bounce radar off of the surface of Earth’s water bodies to map the elevation, extent and movement of water across the planet. The satellite will enable scientists to measure and track the elevation, extent and movement of water…
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Thousands of JFK assassination documents are released by the National Archives.
The US National Archives has released over 13,000 documents collected as part of its government review into the assassination of President John F Kennedy. This comes after former President Donald Trump released most of the assassination-related documents last month. The White House had ordered the release of JFK’s assassination-related documents last year when it was…
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Prince Harry says Prince William was upset with him over the royal split.
Prince Harry, while speaking about his estranged wife Meghan Markle, said that she described her engagement announcement in 2017 as “orchestrated reality show”. “Sometimes…you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution,” he added. Harry further said that some members of the royal family consider the pressure placed on anyone “marrying in” a…
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The former officer who killed Jefferson pointed a gun at him.
Former US police officer Joshua Dean has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2019 shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson in her home. Dean admitted he didn’t see Atatiana’s hands and was unable to identify her by gender or race when he shot into her back window in 2019. Jefferson’s nephew had testified that…
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The science of smashing a space craft into a asteroid
NASA’s DART mission team has shared a picture of asteroid Dimorphos after it crashed into the Earth on January 10. The DART team said the transfer of momentum from Dimorphos’ surface to the spacecraft was 3.6 times greater if the asteroid had absorbed the spacecraft and no material was blasted from it. DART was launched…
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Prince Harry says Prince William was upset with him over the royal split.
In the final episode of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s documentary ‘Harry and Meghan’, the couple revealed that they quit the royal family after their separation. “Sometimes, you know, you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution and there is a huge level of unconscious bias,” Harry said. The couple had announced…
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TikTok is subject to government-issued devices being banned.
The White House is planning a program to secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices that could be put on store shelves. It said the programme would “incentivise manufacturers to meet higher cybersecurity standards, and retailers to market secure devices”. It added that the move would provide American consumers “peace of mind” that the technology being…
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Nuclear fusion could open up a lot of new avenues for clean energy.
US scientists have successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction with a laser at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The researchers fired a series of very rapid, repeat explosions at the rate of 50 times persecond. According to reports, this is the first time a nuclear fusion reaction resulted in a net gain of…
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Putin pledges people in Ukrainian regions will become Russian citizens forever.
Former Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that if his country was threatened with an attack it was possible to use nuclear weapons. “We need to stop lying. Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly tried to deliver humanitarian supplies with food, hygiene products…[and] so on to the city,” he added. Putin further said that Russian forces have…
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In the documentary, Prince Harry says that Prince William was angry over the royal split.
Prince Harry has said he and his wife, Meghan Markle, would have been prepared if their mother, Princess Diana, had died in a car crash during their wedding in May 1997. He added, “I would have wanted to be there for my mother. I would have loved to have lived with her.” Meghan had described…
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The texts were released before the trial.
Several Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the social media company over Elon Musk’s decision to fire them. The lawsuit alleged that the firings are in violation of labour law. Another group of employees is filing a lawsuit over Twitter’s decision to fire them if they didn’t confirm that they would get the…
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House of Cards by Sam Bankman- Fried is falling down.
The US Senate Banking Committee has requested FTX’s 30-year-old Founder Sam Bankman-Fried to appear before them to discuss the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. This comes after FTX filed for bankruptcy last month, leaving millions unable to access their funds. Earlier this week, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, where FTX was based.
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The British royals are watching the documentary.
In a new documentary series, Prince Harry talked about the pressure to choose a wife who “fits the mould” and said, “I was like, wow…I was like, who is that?” “There can be a temptation…to marry someone who would fit the mold, as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with,” he…
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The C-suite clears out as the power is handed over to Musk.
Tesla’s Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday held a town hall meeting with Tesla employees for the first time after announcing he plans to buy the company. “I think it’s critical that we do everything in our power to make this happen, and I have no doubt that we’re going to do that,” Musk…
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The climate crisis may be changing the behavior of tornadoes.
Climate scientists have estimated that climate change caused a storm to drop at least 10% more rain than it would’ve without global warming. In a preliminary analysis, they said climate change caused the storm to drop at least 10% more rains than it would’ve without global warming. This comes days after Hurricane Ian made landfall…
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The deal was finalized between Musk and the company.
Several Twitter employees have shared internal emails detailing Twitter’s decision to block a New York Post story about former US Vice President Hunter Biden and his laptop. In the emails, one of the employees told colleagues that Twitter CEO Elon Musk was considering putting responsibility for certifying FTC compliance onto individual engineers at the company.
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The human body has been affected by infections, including the CoV-2 strain.
A COVID-19 complex model was constructed using the NeoCoV RBD–Bat37ACE2 complex structures which were manually docked into the refined maps using UCSF Chimera and further corrected by real-space refinement in Coot. Reference-free 2D classification was performed using Relion and 3D classification without symmetry was applied using a MERS-CoV cryo-EM map61. A final reconstruction of PDF-2180…
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First evidence of an exoplanets surprising chemistry has been found by the JWST.
A team of scientists has observed the atmospheric composition of gas-rich exoplanet WASP-39b with the 10-billion-dollar Kepler Space Telescope. The carbon to oxygen ratio on the planet was low. This suggests that the planet had absorbed a high amount of water as ice, likely when it was in a different position, and that it formed…
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Nature’s 10.
NASA has shared the first high-resolution image of Pillars of Creation from the James Webb Space Telescope. “We want to capture this image using the James Webb, after seeing a lot of demand,” a scientist working on the telescope wrote on social media. The image was captured in conjunction with an image from Hubble Space…
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The best soundbar deals.
Sonos recently announced it has partnered with Ikea to create a line of soundbars called Symfonisk. The Symfonisk comes with a variety of speakers, including picture frame speakers and built-in subwoofers. The soundbars can be mounted on the same wall for surround sound with any Sonos soundbar and are compatible with other home theatre systems.
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Buy a MacBook Air M2 at an all-time low price at Amazon.
Apple is offering up to $100 discount on its 14-inch MacBook Pro for creative professionals, the company announced on Monday. The 14-inch MacBook comes with an Intel second-generation Core i5-7Y10 processor and comes with a 128GB SSD. It’s also equipped with a 1TB hard drive, a new Touch ID sensor, an Thunderbolt 3 port and…
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The Theragun Pro has a massage gun.
The Theragun PRO, a handheld mobile massage gun with adjustable attachments for elastos and abelian muscles, is available in three models. It has a range of 1750 to 2400 RPM and has a 15mm amplitude. The Theragun PRO has screens in them, which are built right into it, which are built right into the gun…
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The price of the blue is higher for iPhone users.
Billionaire Elon Musk has said that Twitter’s ‘Twitter Blue’ checkmark will be permanently suspended for handles who engage in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody”. Users will also be given the option to switch to ‘gold’ for companies, ‘grey’ for governments or ‘blue’ for celebrities, he added. The move comes a day after Twitter launched iOS…
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Try to recreate the oldest cooked meal ever found.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool claim to have found the oldest-ever cooked meal, a recipe created by Neanderthals and Homo sapiens around 70,000 years ago. “The evidence that ancient humans pounded…pulses at Shanidar Cave 70,000 years ago…is the earliest direct evidence outside Africa of…processing of plants for food,” they said. Neanderthals were around 40,000…
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Federal investigators are looking into whether or not a Musk deal was unethical, said the social media company.
Twitter said in a court filing that it’s being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with the company’s $44-billion acquisition by billionaire Elon Musk. The FTC is probing whether Musk or any other person misled investors about the price he was prepared to pay for Twitter. Musk had acquired Twitter on…