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“They Finally Found the Proof”: This Hidden North Sea Crater Came From a Deadly Asteroid Impact (and It Triggered a 330-Foot Tsunami)  Rude Baguette Source link

One of the most complete sea monsters on record had been discovered along the UK’s Jurassic Coast, being perhaps the world’s most complete reptile fossil dating back to the Pliensbachian period. The rare and impressive specimen offers unprecedented insight into a period of time we know little about, and bridges a gap in our understanding of a strange and complex …

A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has revealed an extraordinary feature in the male spotted ratfish, a shark-like species inhabiting the sea off the northeastern Pacific coast. Researchers discovered that this fish possesses true teeth on a forehead appendage used in mating, overturning decades of assumptions about the exclusive oral location of vertebrate teeth. …

Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space is all set for a crucial first launch of its new Kinetica 2 rocket as soon as next month, amid intense competition inside the country. Kinetica 2 is CAS Space’s first orbital liquid propellant rocket, marking a huge leap in ambition from the smaller and less complex Kinetica 1 (or Lijian 1) solid rocket. …

Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and “sinkites” that turn a basic rule of geology on its head. A new peer reviewed study shows that heavy, younger sands sank downward while older, lighter layers rose, forming hidden hills under the seafloor. The team stitched together a huge three dimensional seismic dataset with evidence …

Giant Asteroid Struck North Sea, Unleashing 330-Feet Tsunami  SciTechDaily Unusual Crater in The North Sea Result of a Cosmic Collision, Study Confirms  ScienceAlert “Scientists Call It Proof Of Violence”: Silverpit Crater Study Confirms Asteroid Impact And Reveals Tsunami That Reshaped North Sea 50 Million Years Ago  Sustainability Times A Massive Asteroid Hit Earth and Created This 330-Foot Tsunami  The Daily Galaxy Asteroid impact in …

By now, a handful of technologies are leading contenders for producing a useful quantum computer. Companies have used them to build machines with dozens to hundreds of qubits, the error rates are coming down, and they’ve largely shifted from worrying about basic scientific problems to dealing with engineering challenges. Yet even at this apparently late date in the field’s development, …

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Oct. 7). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 2:46 a.m. EDT (0646 GMT). The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching down in the Atlantic …

The Book of Exodus tells of a miraculous parting of the Red Sea that allowed Moses and the Israelites to escape Egypt. Now, science has an older and more extreme tale to tell: About 6.2 million years ago, the Red Sea dried up completely. Some millennia later, the dried seabed filled back up in a cataclysmic flood that may have …

Tracey Williams Sixty-two containers were swept overboard from the Tokio Express cargo ship near Land’s End in 1997 A Lego shark caught by a fisherman off the South West coast years after being swept off a ship is to be auctioned for charity. Richard West landed the first-ever reported shark from the 51,800 Lego sharks in one of 62 containers …