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A dwarf planet is a planet. Period.

Asimov no less once called it the world, Ceres . ;)

So they upgraded Ceres from asteroid status the same time...

The video below is 15 minutes long but you don't have to watch the whole thing. Just watch one minute, six seconds and turn it off. If you can.

You...

I love Twitter and that almost everyone in the world has a video recording device on them

This is a do it yourself project. Below I have computed average monthly deaths for the USA for the period 2012-2015. The red bars are standard...

Folks here may appreciate ... 8)

Inside the Hyperloop: the pneumatic travel system faster than the speed of sound

It is called “The Hyperloop” and, according to the designer, it...

Viagra makes flowers stand up straight

Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is good not only for treating male impotence. Israeli and Australian researchers...

Lithium-laced drinking water could curb suicide rates, scientists say
NY Post

For communities with a low rate of depression and suicide, there...

Awesome photos.

How cops can secretly track your phone
The Intercept

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Although the press release and memo didn’t say what form the support and surveillance...

Because it comes up a lot and should all be in one place. 8)

Opening bid:

it's CNN so caution advised, but I don't see any obvious partisan slant.

Indian schoolgirls discover asteroid moving toward Earth (CNN)

New...

Germany to ban single use plastics by 2021

I'm a bit skeptical about this, but what do you think? Possible? Realistic? A worthy goal or not?...

Interesting, mainly for the videos.

Not a mention of anything negative, journalism at it's finest.

You lot tell me if I am going crazy
Not a...

I became a skeptic in Feb 2010.

Why? What does that even mean?

Inspired by
Skeptic of the phenomenon, its causes, or the appropriate response to...

Over in some other topic about some virus we don't really know much about, I realized after making a comment about it (see below)

I think everybody...

Durian Fruit shows promise in alternative battery research.

The stench got too much Gomes’ wife, who removed all remnants of the foul-smelling...

Let Joe Scott Mansplain it to you, in:

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars Aren't The Dumbest Thing. But...

Don't jump to conclusions and think this in any...

Bow crane collapse: Killed woman was 'very caring'

Media captionA 20-metre (65ft) crane crashed on to two properties in Gale Street, Bow

An...

So last night I see tweets about Flo

And I do the math and I am like, what the fuck?

The sixth named storm this year? What the fuck?

So this low...

BERLIN (AP) — The world’s mountain of discarded flat-screen TVs, cellphones and other electronic goods grew to a record high last year, according to...

The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of Tech
The New York Times

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The bill, called the Algorithmic Accountability Act and...

Associate Professor Stephen M. Kajiura was reviewing with his evolution class in GS 120 for a midterm when FAU student Jonatha Carr interrupted him:...

I signed up. I'm sure it will be at least another year before anyone actually has the service but I do like to be in the loop!

U.S Customers...

3 meltdowns 1 of which was total, that is to say the entire core liquified.
1, possibly 2 containment breaches.
3 hydrogen explosions.
1 criticality...

The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public...

Just so Rob can bitch some more… :twisted:

Designed by the former Chief Designer of Isuzu’s commercial truck division, Steve Jennes, now Chief...

Furnace folks want to sell me one to clean out dust, mold, and that COVID .

Not buying one, but if anyone feels like giving me a 'splainer...go...

Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, said yesterday that making roofs and pavements white or light-coloured...

The aliens are silent because they're dead
Science Daily

The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it...

With out actually meaning to

A lot of countries have them

Any working reactor, and especially any cluster of multiple reactors with spent fuel

Is...

Long-lost Roman roads discovered on flood maps: Hi-tech Lidar data reveals the route of 2,000-year-old highways across Britain

Aerial flood maps...

New Horizons conducts the first interstellar parallax experiment
Space Daily

For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky...

You may want to turn the sound down.

This guy 8)

Pulsar-white dwarf binary system confirms general relativistic frame-dragging
Space Daily

A century after it was first theorized,...

I figured this one could use its own thread. Seems pretty cool. I wonder how soon it will happen.

It says the video is 4K, if you have a display...

:D

Would you like to see some graphs?

If not for a the clouds, Galileo might have discovered it.

NASA:

Best viewed full screen.

At 4:33 PM, eastern time.

SpaceX Is About to Launch Two Astronauts Into Space in a Historic First

In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But...

Media incorrectly connects UH research to parallel universe theory
Science Daily

Media outlets from around the world used research out of the...

I don't know if there's much reason to be excited about this, but there are private efforts to develop nuclear fusion.

A fusion startup backed by...

I've seen a few, but was always able to figure out what they were later. But this high tech video from advanced fighter jets, well, the old pilots...

The drone thing is a whole nother issue

But the tech

Wow

“Someone with a fever stands out in a crowd”

Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…
and It’s Beautiful

It’s unexpected, surprising—and for me incredibly exciting. To...

Because nothing resolves an issue like a bunch of mostly amateurs arguing on an obsolete social media platform in a forgotten corner of the internet....