South Australia, a state with a population of about 1.7 million, was hit by a massive storm system on Wednesday. The entire region went without power for much of the day as a result. Read more…
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A Vicious 50-Year Storm Just Blacked Out an Entire Australian State
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Watching the Movement of Colorful Coral Is Really Something Special
It’s the end of an era. BlackBerry, a name once synonymous with high-end smartphones, will no longer make mobile devices. Along with a dismal financial report, the company announced on Wednesday it “plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners.” Read more…
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Sad BlackBerry Will Stop Making Phones
Some restaurants offer pretty good discounts for kids , but even better, some restaurants will feed your kids for free on certain days. U.S. News and World Report rounds up a few of these spots. Read more…
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The Restaurant Chains That Offer Kids-Eat-Free Nights
Researchers working in Africa have uncovered 3.8 million-year-old protein fragments encased in an ostrich eggshell. These biological building blocks are millions of years older than the oldest DNA ever found, highlighting the possibility of recovering ancient proteins from extinct animals—and even the remains of early humans. Read more…
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Oldest Proteins Ever Recovered Found in 3.8 Million-Year-Old Eggshell
Autonomous vehicle technology is still in its infancy, which means that most self-driving vehicles still have a way for humans to take over when needed. But as Komatsu demonstrates with a design for a new autonomous dump truck, in some cases there are real advantages to eliminating humans altogether. Read more…
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This Giant Autonomous Dump Truck Doesn’t Have a Front or Back
We’re finally going to hear Elon Musk’s plans for a mission to Mars. You can watch along to find out what it is at 2:30pm EDT. In the meantime, here’s some of what we expect to hear—and what it means to the plan to finally put a person on Mars. Read more…
Our solar system is rife with geologic activity, from eruptive ice moons to mountainous dwarf planets . Still, Earth always held a special place in the hall of geologic fame. It was the only bonafide planet to exhibit tectonic and seismic activity—until now. Read more…
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We Just Found Out That Mercury Is Geologically Active
Want a drone to fly longer and farther? Give it a bigger battery. But that adds weight, which in turn reduces the drone’s flight time. It’s quite a conundrum. It seems like an unresolvable catch-twenty-two, except that someone has finally found a way to use wireless power to keep a drone flying . Read more…
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This Drone Can Fly Forver Without a Battery
Earlier this week, a fire at a power plant in Puerto Rico set off a series of failures across the island’s aging electrical grid. These before-and-after pics from space show what it looks like when 1.5 million customers suddenly lose power. Read more…
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Satellite Images Show the Extent of Puerto Rico’s Huge Blackout