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Scientists have created a power generator that uses atmospheric humidity and polyoxometalates to produce continuous electricity, offering a sustainable way to utilize low-value energy.

 

Google allegedly gave drivers bridge route for years despite correction requests.

 

Expedition 69 crew members on the ISS marked a busy week with cleaning, maintenance, and experiments. Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin celebrated a year in space, while others contributed to diverse tasks and scientific investigations.

 

Reading advocate and icon Levar Burton will serve as the first actor to lead Banned Books Week as the honorary chair.

 

Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.

 

Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy cybersecurity company Splunk Inc. in a deal valued at about $28 billion, creating one of the world’s largest software companies.The combination will help make companies more resilient to cybersecurity threats, according to the statement.
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Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart in explosive test (video) | Space.com
#space #iss #spacecraft #spacestation

 

Better use of tech in prisons would help with transition back into society, says researcher | Phys.org
#science #tech #technology #socialscience #criminaljustice

 

Starting next year, users will be able to pay for fresh groceries using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from right within the Uber Eats app.

 

Researchers inoculated rapeseed plants with a species of fungus that is known for its ability to combat pest insects. Utilizing the relationship between beneficial fungi and crop plants may introduce a new era of agriculture where the plant resilience is improved and the ecological footprint of trad

 

The German project aims to explore beneath Earthly ice as a test for space exploration.

 

Google is Expanding Road Mapper | Local Guides Connect
#tech #technology #software #google

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Term Limits for all! #termlimits

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Term Limits for all! #termlimits

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@Gordon_Freeman interesting video describing algae-based carbon capturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptyDhsmni8

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

#kbin which is like reddit + twitter. Somethings I post as threads (like reddit) some things I post as posts (like twitter). Then I hop between the two when reading. Posts fall under microblogs and federates with Mastodon. So it is like having thing I need in one account.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't that sort of like the fox watching the hen house?

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

A survey of the area where it was found has so far resulted in no further artefacts or evidence of human remains, however, according to Gosker: “The soldier may still lie undiscovered in the depths, to be revealed one day by the shifting sands.”

Or the new guy just dropped on his first day work and had to have an awkward conversation with the captain. Either way great find! It would be cool if they found a shipwreck near by.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So it looks like the causes are:

  • Increasing natural disasters such as wildfires, tornadoes and hurricanes
  • Continual development in forested areas
  • Aging forests

This means at minimum we would have to:

  • Mitigate climate change
  • Create more national/protected forest areas
  • Manage those forests effectively to ensure efficient carbon absorption (replacing older trees with younger trees when applicable).

That's a pretty tall order.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It has happened before. More than 12,000 years ago, rapid glacier melt caused the AMOC to shut down, leading to huge Northern Hemisphere temperature fluctuations of 10 to 15 degrees Celsius (18 to 27 Fahrenheit) within a decade.

What caused the rapid glacier melt before and how did the planet bounce back. Knowing this could held expedite the "fast and effective measures to cut planet-heating pollution to zero, to reduce global temperatures and slow melting in the Arctic" that the report has called for.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Reversing climate is just like sustainable energy. There will be no one magice cure all. We will have to diversify and deploy several different technologies and techniques.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least #twitter made it to come up with a play on brexit ...#Xit!

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@genesis I have started using it more. I am trying determine how I prefer to use it. Like how I determine if something is a thread vs post.

[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No doubt, Google wants to be the only gateway to the web and control it.

"He who controls information controls the world"

  • Tom Clancy
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