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s (ESA NEO Toolkit) An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024 A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory. Read More​ ​ Put Interest On Ice Until Nearly 2026 Did you know some credit cards can actually help you get out of debt faster? Yes, it sounds crazy. But it’s true. The secret: Find a card with a “0% intro APR" period for balance transfers. Then, transfer your debt balance and pay it down as much as possible during the intro period. No interest means you could pay off the debt faster. Find out more​ ADVERTISEMENT

History & Archaeology (Cornwall National Landscape) 'Medieval' King Arthur site is 4,000 years older than we thought The discovery suggests the mysterious "King Arthur's Hall" in England is older than Stonehenge. Read More​

Space (Subaru Telescope / National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Researchers spot rare 'triple-ring' galaxy that defies explanation A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic taxonomy. Read More​

Animals (Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how. A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help devise better protection for astronauts on long missions.

 

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An overwhelming majority of Americans say they’re concerned about the treatment of animals raised for meat, and many believe they can help by simply selecting from one of the many brands that advertise their chicken or pork as “humane.” looking good/no shortages mebeee

 

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The Latest From Undark​

Book Review: The Curious History of Life-Saving Viruses​ By Amber Dance In “The Living Medicine,” journalist Lina Zeldovich recounts the long history of bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages, first developed in the early 20th century. Unlike antibiotics, phages evolve alongside the bacterial hosts they destroy, and may be our best weapons for fighting antibiotic resistance. Read on » Frontline Mpox Responders Aren’t Getting the Support They Need​ By Ben Smilowitz and Ankush Bansal Mpox has been declared a public health emergency of international concern. Yet on-the-ground responders in Africa report a lack of funding and supplies to address the disease. To prevent mpox from becoming a pandemic, donations need to go directly to local organizations, says one disaster advocacy nonprofit. Read on » The Search for Critical Minerals is Going High Tech​ By Sarah Scoles U.S. officials want to find domestic sources of metals that go in everything from green technology to cell phones. Science and defense agencies have teamed up to figure out how AI could help, from analyzing new satellite surveys, to scrubbing through older data, pulling obscure signals from the past. Read on » Will Ukraine Embrace an Era of ‘War-Wilding’?​ By Fred Pearce Amid the war’s destruction, Ukrainian scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. When the conflict ends, they say, the nation should not rebuild its massive Soviet-era infrastructure and instead continue the rewilding by letting nature keep restoring itself. Read on » Podcast: Will Artificial Intelligence Kill Us All?​ By The Editors This week on Entanglements, hosts Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild talk to a former OpenAI employee and a Princeton professor about AI and doom. Could AI really become an existential threat to humanity? Or is the possibility — highlighted by some 300 AI experts in an open letter last year — overhyped? Read on » 'undark' ynfo to confuse us tes

 

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An Urgent Prophetic Call To All The Christians In Our World Today

A message to all the Christians of the world smile ther maybe a peacful/joyus usa hence our eorld,after all blrss ya'all

 

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The Utah FORGE project is sponsored by the US Department of Energy to drive enhanced geothermal systems. (Dr. Clay Jones)

Investments in geothermal heating up​

for 6o years nz has been very fortunate with clean geothermal ppower

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Three I took this week.

Each one was based on me thinking to myself: "after a record-breaking zero (yes, ZERO) hours of sunshine for the first ten days of November 2024, isn't it nice to see that unidentified flying object back in the sky?"

Don't know what went wrong with the third, but something ain't quite right....

 

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​ Graphic by Jenna Cohen/PBS News

The United States had the world’s largest drop in greenhouse gas emissions from 2022 to 2023, according to data released Friday by Climate TRACE. Shanghai was the top emitting city in 2023, followed by Tokyo, New York, Houston and Seoul. The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions on Earth grew 0.7 percent to 61.2 billion metric tons.

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The report comes as countries negotiate efforts to curb global warming at the United Nations' COP29 climate change summit. The conference has come under scrutiny for influence from the fossil fuel industry; climate activists have called for reform. What’s next for U.S. climate policy As president-elect Donald Trump’s team is taking shape, we’re learning more about who will take the lead on energy, climate and the environment.

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The first announcement on that front was Lee Zeldin, a former GOP congressman who will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump has called climate change a “scam” and says addressing it hurts business. PBS News’ William Brangham speaks with Coral Davenport of The New York Times about what this means for the country and the climate.

 

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Garden of the Gods, Colorado

 

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Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

 

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​ Put Interest On Ice Until Nearly 2026 Did you know some credit cards can actually help you get out of debt faster? Yes, it sounds crazy. But it’s true. The secret: Find a card with a “0% intro APR" period for balance transfers. Then, transfer your debt balance and pay it down as much as possible during the intro period. No interest means you could pay off the debt faster. Find out more​ ADVERTISEMENT

Planet Earth (Alfred-Wegener-Institut / V. Schumacher) 'Another piece of the puzzle': Antarctica's 1st-ever amber fossil sheds light on dinosaur-era rainforest that covered South Pole 90 million years ago Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments of an ancient rainforest that covered the South Pole during the Cretaceous period. Read More​

Space (Purdue Brand Studio) Meteorite found in a drawer at university contains 700-million-year-old evidence of water on Mars The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars 742 million years ago. Read More​

Health (Northwestern Medicine) Severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest Immune cells produced during severe COVID-19 infection may shrink tumors. The unexpected mechanism offers a new therapeutic possibility for advanced and treatment-resistant cancers. Read More​

Animals 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled from permafrost in Siberia Researchers have analyzed mummified remains pulled from Siberia's permafrost in 2020 and determined they belong to a 3-week-old saber-toothed kitten that died at least 35,000 years ago.

 

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This Week In Space: Episode 137 - Strange New Worlds (TWiS) On Episode 137 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jason Steffen, a professor of physics at UNLV and a member of the science team for the Kepler Space Telescope mission. This mission finally ended in 2018, but the discoveries keep coming. Kepler returned so much data that it was like "drinking from a firehose," Jason tells us. Full Story: Space(11/16) ​ Put Interest On Ice Until Nearly 2026 Did you know some credit cards can actually help you get out of debt faster? Yes, it sounds crazy. But it's true. The secret: Find a card with a "0% intro APR" period for balance transfers. Then, transfer your debt balance and pay it down as much as possible during the intro period. No interest means you could pay off the debt faster. Find out more​ ADVERTISEMENT

Skywatching Last supermoon of 2024 wows skywatchers around the world (Islam Dogru/Anadolu via Getty Images) The final supermoon of 2024, the Beaver Moon of November, thrilled skywatchers around the world as it ushered in the weekend with a stunning night sky sight. Full Story: Space(11/16)

Spaceflight Blue Origin flight will launch 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli (Blue Origin) We now know who's going up on Blue Origin's next suborbital space tourism mission. The six crewmembers for the flight include TV host and best-selling author Emily Calandrelli, known as "The Space Gal," as well as two repeat customers, Blue Origin announced in a statement today (Nov. 15). Full Story: Space(11/15)

Science & Astronomy Where did the universe's magnetic fields come from? (Newton Henry Black/Wikimedia Commons) How the universe got its large magnetic fields has remained one of the stickiest outstanding problems in astrophysics. Now, researchers have proposed a novel solution: a giant "dust battery" operating when the first stars appeared. Full Story: Space(11/16)

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Why can't we just launch all of Earth's garbage into the sun?

Earth is messy. Can’t we just send our junk somewhere else?

R ​ 19 charming winners from the Dog Photography Awards SEE NOW​ Pesto, a penguin famous for his gargantuan

 

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(NTNU) Scientists glean new details of mysterious, centuries-old shipwreck submerged in Norway's largest lake Researchers now think the boat was a local "føringsbåt" for passengers and cargo. Read More​

Planet Earth (NOAA) West Coast bracing for 'bomb' cyclone A low-pressure system headed for Northern California and Oregon is likely to bring extreme rain and strong winds. Read More​

Animals (Freder/Getty Images) Dolphin in the Baltic Sea has been talking to himself — and researchers think it's a sign he's lonely A solitary dolphin in the Baltic Sea has been recorded talking to himself, leading researchers to wonder whether he's lonely and calling out for friends. Read More​

Life's Little Mysteries (© Marco Bottigelli via Getty Images) Why isn't the darkest time of the year also the coldest? Why aren't the solstices the coldest and hottest days of the year?

 

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I was one of 57,000 who attended the Coldplay concert last Friday evening, and took my place in the heaving mass of fans cheering, waving and wailing. Fitted with LED wristbands we each became part of the lightshow. But as I looked around the stadium I was struck by the idea that the 387,000 readers of New Zealand Geographic would fill Eden Park nearly seven times. We're bigger than Coldplay Cheaper too. We received more than 500 responses to the reader survey last week. This week we look at what the results mean and how New Zealand Geographic will make good on reader expectations. ​

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	​ We're edging closer to our goal of 10,000 subscriptions. Since the start of this appeal we have received more than 1200 new subscriptions—only 800 to go. It's not as much as you think—$8.50 every two months for digital, $12 for print or $16.50 for both... a gold coin a week. Check out the options. ​

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SUSTAINABLE PUBLISHING You had a lot of opinions. We read all of them.​ The open text fields of your ideas and suggestions fill 130 pages. There are hundreds of other data points for us to process and understand. It could take us weeks to get through the detail, but here are the top-lines. The first aspect to consider is that those who took the time to respond to the survey were largely those readers over 30 years of age, and particularly those over 50. This differs from our readership data which is a close match for the national average, and may be a reflection of those who have time to set aside for a long survey on a Wednesday. We're grateful you took that time of course, and every response counts. ​

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​ In general, New Zealand Geographic as a product seems to be on the right track. Just over 92% of you believe that our stories are roughly the right length. We had readers say they wanted shorter pieces, and others who read NZGeo for the "meaty" features. About 9% said stories were too long, and those numbers were the about same for digital subscribers too. Reading level, not a problem—though a greater proportion of our youngest readers say it's too high. ​

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​ We were extremely interested in your perspectives on how we cover controversial stories, 'political' stories, and for your views on New Zealand Geographic's role in the public conversation. As I noted in the survey, during COVID the New Zealand Geographic editorial team decided that we could no longer give equal voice to dangerous perspectives when scientific evidence was clear. This started with vaccination but also defines how we report on climate change and the biodiversity crisis. Remarkably, 86% of readers felt like we had navigated this minefield in a reasonable fashion, and 8% felt we should be more committed. Just 6% of you thought we should pump the brakes.​

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(AARO/Wikimedia Commons) A U.S. Senate subcommittee will hear from the Pentagon's UFO office tomorrow, and you can watch live. Director Jon T. Kosloski of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, will testify before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on Tuesday (Nov. 19) starting at 4:30 p.m. ET (2130 GMT). A closed-door session off-limits to the public will be held prior to the open session, beginning at 3:15 p.m. ET (2015 GMT). You can watch the hearing live at Space.com, courtesy of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Full Story: Space(11/18) ​ Tackle your credit card debt with 0% interest until nearly 2026 Pay no interest until nearly 2026 with some of the best hand-picked credit cards this year, all with no annual fee. Experts identified these top credit card of 2024 offering 0% intro APR until nearly 2026. Find out more​ ADVERTISEMENT

Skywatching Aurora forecast: Will the northern lights be visible tonight? (Space.com / Josh Dinner) Auroras are one of the most dazzling shows in the night sky, but to see them, you have to be in the right place at the right time. Our aurora forecast live blog tells you everything you need to know about upcoming geomagnetic activity and the likelihood of seeing the northern lights depending on your location. We will also keep you informed of any significant space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and coronal holes which could bring strong aurora-sparking solar winds our way. Full Story: Space(11/18)

Spaceflight Blue Origin targeting Nov. 22 for next space tourism launch (Blue Origin) Blue Origin's ninth crewed spaceflight will lift off this week, if all goes according to plan. Jeff Bezos' aerospace company announced today (Nov. 18) that it's targeting Friday (Nov. 22) for the launch of NS-28, which will send "Space Gal" Emily Calandrelli and five other people to suborbital space. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-capsule combo will lift off from the company's West Texas spaceport on Friday during a window that opens at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time). You can watch the action live here at Space.com courtesy of Blue Origin, or directly via the company; the webcast will begin 30 minutes before liftoff. Full Story: Space(11/17)

Science & Astronomy Hubble witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas (NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) A brand new study based on Hubble Space Telescope observations has thrown weight behind our galaxy's reputation as a bully, showing that the size of the LMC's halo is around ten times smaller than halos of other galaxies that have the LMC's mass, which hints at a past incident with the Milky Way in which our galaxy stripped the LMC of some of its material. Researchers used observations of the LMC from Hubble's ultraviolet vision. Full Story: Space(11/17)

SpaceX SpaceX's Starship booster catch looked just like the render (SpaceX) A new video released ahead of SpaceX's next Starship launch shows just how perfectly the rocket booster nailed its first landing. Full Story: Space(11/18)