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Archaeologists in Norway find rare Viking ship burial using only radar

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Gustavsen said that the mound was previously dug up in the 19th Century, when a lot of the wooden remains of the ship were burned because people were unaware of what they were, meaning there is not a lot left for researchers to analyze today.
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In 1110, The Moon Vanished From The Sky. We May Finally Know Why
Almost a millennium ago, a major upheaval occurred in Earth's atmosphere: a giant cloud of sulphur-rich particles flowed throughout the stratosphere, turning skies dark for months or even years, before ultimately falling down to Earth.

We know this event happened because researchers have drilled and analysed ice cores - samples taken from deep within ice sheets or glaciers, which have trapped sulphur aerosols produced by volcanic eruptions reaching the stratosphere and settling back on the surface.
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Items like this are why I think it is absurd to think there is no life on other planets.
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Jaymann wrote: Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:57 pm
Items like this are why I think it is absurd to think there is no life on other planets.
Exactly.
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Perhaps not very interesting to many, but a good friend of mine was the lead researcher on a research project which was just published in Nature.

Link to abstract here

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Well, the subject might not be exciting, but getting published in a prestigious journal certainly is. Congratulate him for us.
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It's funny how you can't help comparing yourself to other people near you. I met him in a dance class we both signed up for two years ago. He's taller than me, smarter than me, definitely better looking than me, and Italian, so he's always popular with the ladies, but I turned out to be a better dancer, so at least I had one thing on him.

He's a good guy and a very pleasant friend. I'm very proud of him for getting that published.
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Daehawk wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:35 pm Sex in a cave
Mods, please move this to the Sex In Various Locations forum, thanks.
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Thought about Sex in a Hole but it was too brash...too out there.
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Speaking of SCIENCE, 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says:
Although this dinosaur's caboose shares some characteristics with the backsides of some living creatures, it's also a one-of-a-kind opening, the researchers found. "The anatomy is unique," study lead researcher Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. It doesn't quite look like the opening on birds, which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. It does look a bit like the back opening on a crocodile, he said, but it's different in some ways. "It's its own cloaca, shaped in its perfect, unique way," Vinther said.
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As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned 'ghost villages'
But growth has slowed – and considerably. As women’s empowerment advances, and access to contraception improves, birthrates around the world are stuttering and stalling, and in many countries now there are fewer than 2.1 children per woman – the minimum level required to maintain a stable population.Falling fertility rates have been a problem in the world’s wealthiest nations – notably in Japan and Germany – for some time. In South Korea last year, birthrates fell to 0.84 per woman, a record low despite extensive government efforts to promote childbearing. From next year, cash bonuses of 2m won (£1,320) will be paid to every couple expecting a child, on top of existing child benefit payments.Thanks to this worldwide pattern of falling fertility levels, the UN now believes that we will see an end to population growth within decades – before the slide begins in earnest.
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I require convincing that this is a bad thing.
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Id rather convince you Earth and animals would be better off without any humans at all.
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Two stories.....

1. Split signals end for remnant of Antarctic iceberg A68a
The largest fragment from a block of Antarctic ice that originally measured some 5,800 sq km (2,240 sq miles) in area has suffered another major split.

Satellite imagery shows at least two segments drifting close together about 135km south-east of the British territory of South Georgia. They will no doubt soon move further apart.

For more than three years, A68a was the biggest iceberg in the world.

At its greatest extent, it was about a quarter of the size of Wales - or New Jersey or Israel.
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2. The huge nuclear disaster hidden by the Soviets
In 1957, a massive nuclear accident took place at the top secret Mayak nuclear station in the Soviet Union. At the time, it was the largest nuclear disaster in history. So why has no one heard of it?

Despite its size, Soviet authorities managed to keep the accident a secret for almost four decades, and details of the devastating legacy of what is now known as the 'Kyshtym disaster' are still only just becoming clear today.
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Theres a new blue.

It’s Not Every Day We Get a New Blue
YInMn Blue is named for its chemical components: yttrium, indium and manganese.Credit...
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Sorry, the colors for 2021 are Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow
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Scientists find first evidence of rare Higgs boson decay
Scientists have spotted the first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay, expanding our understanding of the strange quantum universe.

In 2012, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland won a Nobel Prize in Physics with a breakthrough finding: they detected the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle predicted by the Standard Model of physics nearly 50 years prior. The Higgs boson doesn't live very long, quickly decaying into smaller particles like two photons (light particles).

Now, researchers using ATLAS and CMS have found evidence for a rare Higgs boson decay in which the subatomic particle decays into one photon and two leptons, a type of elementary particle that can be charged or neutral. (Electrons and muons, a similar type of subatomic particle, are two examples of charged leptons.) Specifically, they found evidence that the Higgs boson can decay into either a photon and a pair of electrons, or a photon and a pair of muons with opposite charge.
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There's been a new claimed sighting of a Tasmanian tiger. Footage hasn't been released yet but is being examined by experts at a Tasmanian museum. These sorts of claim pop up every few years or so and usually turn out to be a dog or a cat, but apparently these pictures seem much clearer and more definitive than previous ones: in the YouTube link in the twitter thread below, the person that found the image claims that one of animals in the pictures (there were three walking together) has pretty distinctive markings representative of Tasmanian tigers. Guess we'll find out in a week or so, but would be pretty exciting if confirmed. Who knew The Hunter was a documentary???

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Update: it's not a Tasmanian tiger. :(

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But you can easily see how they could confuse the two animals....

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I see the resemblance. Bartender! Another round!
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Wait, another sighting!

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31 miles north of Rome there sits an abbey surrounded by farmland. Or it appears that way. But ground penetrating radar exposes an ancient Roman city abandoned long ago.

https://www.sciencealert.com/an-entire- ... the-ground

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Once upon a time, Falerii Novi was a thriving community. For hundreds of years, generations of people strode its streets, lived out their lives under its roofs, shopped in its markets, and worshipped in its temples – from its founding in 241 BCE up until the Early Middle Ages.

When Falerii Novi was abandoned in around 700 CE, it was mostly left to the ravages of time. A casual passerby might notice little more of its remains than a few watchtowers and ancient walls dotting grassy fields, in its quiet location 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Rome.

An abbey was later built on part of the site, but the thriving hub that once stood there has left its ghostly footprint below the ground – and now archaeologists have used state-of-the-art ground-penetrating radar technology to generate the most detailed map of the walled city yet – without ever breaking the ground.
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Iceberg larger than New York City breaks off in Antarctica
An iceberg measuring 492 feet thick and 490 square miles broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf on Friday, according to a press release from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The section, measuring larger than New York City, cleaved near BAS's Halley Research Station, which was closed for the season earlier this month.
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If you're familiar with the Antikythera mechanism -- the oldest known mechanical computer -- this new research will ring your chimes. And if you didn't know what that is, the link explains it.
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How a Peanut Butter Test May Detect Alzheimer’s
Here’s how they conducted the test. The researchers asked each person to close their eyes, their mouth and one nostril. They opened a small container of peanut butter and moved progressively closer until the person could smell it. After measuring that distance, they waited 90 seconds and repeated the process with the other nostril.

In those with probable Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers had to move the peanut butter container an average of 10 centimeters closer to the left nostril than to the right nostril.

“This is a very interesting part of this study,” notes Dylan Wint, MD, a specialist in degenerative brain diseases who commented on the research. “There is a lot of research showing Alzheimer-related brain shrinkage usually starting on the left side of the brain, which is where the temporal lobe degenerates first.”
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You keep polluting like that your dick will shrink up.

Messing up our planet is now messing up women’s fertility, and men’s sperm count and penis size.

Not to mention your taint.
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Kraken wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:09 am If you're familiar with the Antikythera mechanism -- the oldest known mechanical computer -- this new research will ring your chimes. And if you didn't know what that is, the link explains it.
I've always been interested in this thing. Since it was discovered in a shipwreck and there are no known analogues elsewhere in the era, the likely (and saddest possible) narrative is that it was a one-off or a prototype and that the inventor went down with it.
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I think one show labeled it as Archimedes in origin and a Roman generals collection.
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How the Soviets accidentally discovered the 'Gates of Hell'

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Located in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, the Darvaza crater is a massive man-made sinkhole that has been burning methane gas for decades.

It has been said that it was intentionally set alight by Soviet authorities, hoping it would burn off in a matter of weeks. However, nearly 50 years later, the crater is still alight and its true origins are still shrouded in mystery.
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Miners Accidentally Find The First Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossil

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The researchers examining the find were astounded at its nearly unprecedented level of preservation. The creature’s skin, armor, and even some of its guts were intact – something they’d never seen before.
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The whitest-ever paint has been produced by academic researchers, with the aim of boosting the cooling of buildings and tackling the climate crisis.

The new paint reflects 98% of sunlight as well as radiating infrared heat through the atmosphere into space. In tests, it cooled surfaces by 4.5C below the ambient temperature, even in strong sunlight. The researchers said the paint could be on the market in one or two years.
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The new paint was revealed in a report in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Three factors are responsible for the paint’s cooling performance. First, barium sulphate was used as the pigment which, unlike conventional titanium dioxide pigment, does not absorb UV light. Second, a high concentration of pigment was used – 60%.

Third, the pigment particles were of varied size. The amount of light scattered by a particle depends on its size, so using a range scatters more of the light spectrum from the sun. Ruan’s lab had assessed more than 100 different materials and tested about 50 formulations for each of the most promising. Their previous whitest paint used calcium carbonate – chalk – and reflected 95.5% sunlight.
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The researchers said the ultra-white paint uses a standard acrylic solvent and could be manufactured like conventional paint. They claim the paint would be similar in price to current paints, with barium sulphate actually cheaper than titanium dioxide. They have also tested the paint’s resistance to abrasion, but said longer-term weathering tests were needed to assess its long-term durability.

Ruan said the paint was not a risk to people’s eyesight: “Our surface reflects the sunlight diffusely, so the power going in any particular direction is not very strong. It just looks bright white, a bit whiter than snow.”
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