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New research has found that our oceans will become more acidic, which could damage shark teeth and change the balance of some of our aquatic ecosystems. What’s happening? The research, published in August by a team of German researchers and reported on by Mongabay, focused on the impacts of future ocean acidification. In particular, researchers focused on projections that suggest …

Could humans survive on Europa? NASA reveals shocking facts about Jupiter’s icy moon  WION Surface modification on Jupiter’s moon Europa uncovered: Study  The Sunday Guardian It’s official—Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, produces far less oxygen than we thought, changing what we thought we knew about extraterrestrial life  La Grada Source link

Cameras have also slipped free in the vacuum of space. In 2007, astronaut Sunita Williams lost her digital camera during a spacewalk near the ISS solar arrays. Earlier, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins misplaced a Hasselblad camera inside the cramped Columbia command module, jokingly reporting the incident to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Williams’s camera, like most lost items, eventually …

5. “I’ve been surprised by how easy it is to become mindless and numb. When I was a child, my life was busy. There were never enough answers to my questions. Imagination and ideas were infinite. No matter how many times I explored the nooks and crannies of my house, I could do it again and again. Being bored was …

Do they make dentures for sharks? In the future, they might need to, with recent research suggesting that sharks may lose their deadly bite to ocean acidification. Shark teeth are the envy of the animal kingdom: they’re sharp and constantly growing. When one tooth falls out, the next is ready to spring up in its place. This dental regeneration is …

“Saturday Night Live” star Chloe Fineman is still processing the sketch show’s recent cast shake-up. The past few weeks have seen the departures of Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim, plus the splitting up of Please Don’t Destroy as Ben Marshall was promoted to main cast, Martin Herlihy moved to writing staff and John Higgins left the …

The Sex in the ‘Oslo Trilogy’ Is Taboo-Breaking. The Niceness Is Shocking.  The New York Times ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Review: A Complex Portrait of Sexual Awakening  IndieWire “Dreams” Review: Haugerud captures the rush of young, forbidden love  Truthdig DREAMS (LOVE SEX) Review: Confronting Personal Histories of Love and Desire  ScreenAnarchy ‘Dreams’ Review: Infatuation in Oslo  The Wall Street Journal Source link

Boxing legend Mike Tyson recently made a startling admission that he used fentanyl to deal with pain during his iconic career. “It was a painkiller, and I used to use it to patch up my toe,” Tyson said on an episode of the “Katie Miller Podcast” published Tuesday. “It was like heroin — once it wears off and you take …

Scientists have discovered jet-black egg capsules on a rock slope in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, revealing the deepest known reproduction of free-living flatworms—at over 20,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. This discovery, reported in Biology Letters and echoed by a related genetic study in PubMed, is transforming our understanding of how some of Earth’s simplest creatures survive—and reproduce—in one of its …

Passion and overworking are not the same thing. Yet, in the tech world, they are often blurred into one. The tragic death of Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old Microsoft engineer, has once again put the spotlight on the cost of pushing beyond human limits. What happened at Microsoft’s campus? On 19 August, Pandey swiped into Microsoft’s Mountain View office at 7:50 …