The promise of new demand is driving some utilities to reconsider scheduled coal plant retirements. In Virginia, where Amazon Web Services keeps 96 data centers and is investing $35 million to expand its campuses, the regional transmission…
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Could Stonehenge Be a Copy of This Even More Ancient Monument? : ScienceAlert
At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in Britain.
Radiocarbon dating of some of the artifacts and remains buried beneath the monument reveals that Flagstones…
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Mood Swings During Sickness Are Caused by Complex Brain-Immune Crosstalk
Feeling sluggish, depressed, anxious, and having trouble concentrating while being sick might not just be due to physical weakness. Extensive reports from health professionals have pointed out that these symptoms, labeled “sickness behavior,” are…
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Mystery ‘hairy’ material used to make handcrafted medieval book covers finally revealed
Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from…
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The truth about the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf after 10,000 years
Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA…
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Pet cats and dogs make better social media influencers than people, study confirms
Social media accounts of pets showcasing products could have an edge over their human…
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Titanic’s first ever 3D scan reveals details of doomed ship’s final hours
A full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed further insight into the doomed…
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Earth’s First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today : ScienceAlert
Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet’s earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth’s very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to the shell of solid rock in place today.
It…
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Breakthrough implant reads your thoughts and converts them to speech
A new thought-reading brain implant is giving people who can’t speak a chance to communicate again. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, this experimental technology can convert neural activity into spoken words with a delay of…
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Dire Wolf De-Extinction Breeds Both Hope and Uncertainty
The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the dire wolf species that disappeared from Earth around 12,500 years ago. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, the company leading…
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