chuyuss/Shutterstock When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China’s Three Gorges Dam. It’s located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it’s the world’s largest hydroelectric project. Stretching more than 2 kilometers, it’s more than 180 meters tall, and it’s …
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A colony of bats near Libby Dam tested positive for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, marking the first detection of the deadly disease in western Montana. Since it was first observed in New York in 2006, white-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats across the U.S. and Canada. The disease is caused by a cold-loving fungus, which colonizes …
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A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater downstream. Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone to be ready to evacuate. On Tuesday morning …
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In case you missed it, OpenAI has responded to a recent “leak” of thousands of ChatGPT conversations by removing a sharing feature that led to its users unknowingly unleashing their private exchanges onto the world wide web. We enclose the term in quotation marks because the “leak” wasn’t the doing of some nefarious hackers, but a consequence of poor user …
Read More »Did a Cosmic Collision Dam the Grand Canyon? A 56,000-Year-Old Mystery SciTechDaily Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago Space Explosive meteor strike may have dammed the Grand Canyon and created a lake Earth.com A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, new study says MSN Meteor Crash May Have Caused an Ancient Lake to …
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