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With Tesla shareholders set to vote on a proposed 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in November, board chair Robyn Denholm spoke to The New York Times to defend what would be the largest pay package in corporate history. Denholm, who was also on the special committee that put the compensation proposal together, argued that Musk needs …

The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny world, made by a pair of astronomers in California, suggest it possesses either a second satellite or a third ring. Quaoar and our solar system’s other dwarf planets are generally so far away that they are a challenge to view directly from Earth. (An exception is …

A man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump wanted to quiz potential jurors with a series of odd questions. Ryan Routh, 59, wanted to ask a series of unconventional questions on topics, including turtles, Gaza, and Greenland. His list of questions included asking jurors their reactions to seeing a turtle in the road while they are driving. He also …

We’ve arrived at the peak week of hurricane season – the traditional midpoint of the Atlantic’s yearly activity is September 10 – but you wouldn’t know it from the Tropical Weather Outlook issued by the National Hurricane Center, or NHC, on Monday, September 8. The headline: “Tropical cyclone activity is not expected during the next 7 days.” As we reported last …

One of the biggest things tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) has brought out in some time is the Xbox Game Pass. A kind of cloud-based gaming service that offers access to a range of titles for a monthly fee, Xbox Game Pass has met with almost as much controversy as praise. A recent report noted that this controversy is even happening …

1 Weight Gain Kseniya Ovchinnikova//Getty Images After 40, your metabolism tends to slow down about 5% every decade. This makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain weight—meaning you have to be more intentional about diet and exercise. “As your metabolism changes, your portion size and activity level play a much more significant factor in weight maintenance and …

Wandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans. Credit: Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) Weak magnetic fields once exposed humans to radiation. People adapted with shelter, clothing, and mineral protection. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of …

7 Weird Ways Your Body Tells You That You Need To Eat Less Sugar  aol.com What Happens When You Cut Down on Sugary Drinks for a Month?  The Indian Express 7 Weird Signs You Need To Eat Less Sugar  parade.com I Quit Sugar 6 Weeks Ago, and I’m Genuinely Surprised by the Results  aol.com Karen Telleen-Lawton: Hold the Sugar  Noozhawk Source link

By now we have a pretty good idea of what the iPhone 17 line up looks like, and it looks… interesting. From the thinnest iPhone ever to the biggest camera bump ever, it seems one thing we’re not in for this year is more of the same. And the same goes for Apple‘s cases. We’ve already heard that Apple is …

This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth’s range, which extended down into Central America. The researchers focused on the Basin of Mexico, which is well south of where any woolly mammoths were likely to be found. While the warmer terrain generally tends to degrade DNA more quickly, the team …