Prison Sentenced for Defacing a Well-Known Work of Art by a Climate Activist A climate activist who vandalized a display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC last year will be imprisoned for sixty days. According to a news release from the Justice Department, Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced … Read more
The surface to uncover this remarkable fossil. complete darkness. ice waterfalls, muddy passageways, and crushing squeezes. Spiders and bats. leaping off ledges and into the uncharted. For a fossil, how far would you go? We reached our limits—and then some—during a two-year retrieval mission that lasted nearly sixty hours in a cave beneath the surface. … Read more
Researchers have found a new competitor in the race to hack the aging process, suggesting that they may be moving closer to their objective. Plant cells have a specific organelle that has been understood for more than a century. But because not much research has been done to fully grasp it, this gem has been … Read more
A scientist has claimed proof that our lives are Simulation. Thomas Anderson, a.k.a. Neo, learns the ultimate truth—that the universe is a simulation—in the 1999 movie The Matrix. Although this theory makes for excellent science fiction material and explains how Neo can pick up kung-fu in around five seconds, it isn’t quite as thoughtfully placed … Read more
RAM Without RAM, or random access memory, your computer wouldn’t be very helpful. Since these chips serve as an operating system’s temporary storage, speed is crucial because they must continuously access memory to maintain proper operation. The most developed form of this technology, known as magnetoresistive RAM, or MRAM, has been the standard for the … Read more
Star Trek There aren’t many more convenient ways to present “Star Trek” information than a Captain’s log entry, an essential Starfleet document that indicates time in “stardates”—a mysterious calendar that incorporates decimals into every date. Deeper analysis of the “Star Trek” timeline reveals that, despite being based on an actual astronomical date system, the Starfleet … Read more
NASA and Boeing Agree to Move Forward Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is getting ready for its maiden crewed launch following a slew of failures and prolonged delays. The International Space Station (ISS) will be reached by NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on this historic mission, which is scheduled to take off from Florida as … Read more
If you feel self-conscious about your underarm fat when you roll up your arms or wear sleeveless dresses, we sympathize with your discomfort. Don’t feel terrible about it, though—people of all ages, genders, shapes, and sizes frequently have underarm fat. Now, you would assume that hitting the gym and doing a ton of arm workouts … Read more
Archaeologists Found An Amazing Cluster of Long-Lost Civilizations About 3 million species call the moist tropical canopy of the Amazon home, making it one of the planet’s most biodiverse locations. However, we believed that the Amazon never supported the vast ancient civilizations found elsewhere in the Americas due to its dense forest and generally harsh … Read more
What is the decimals age? You’ve probably never given it much thought, but some historians have found it fascinating. Being fascinated isn’t hyperbole. Glen Van Brummelen is a mathematics historian at Trinity Western University in Canada. He tells Nature News that while teaching at a middle school math camp, he noticed a decimal used to … Read more
