Melting temperature and phase stability of iron under core-like conditions shed light on Earth’s geodynamics
A laser-driven shock event in iron at the High Power Laser Facility (HPLF), where X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was used to determine the melting temperature and microscopic structure of iron at pressures relevant to Earth science. Credit: Jean-Alexis Hernandez, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Iron is one of the main elements found in the Earth’s inner […]
Senate panel advances Bessent nomination
Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, won bipartisan support Tuesday as his nomination cleared a Senate committee. The Senate Finance Committee voted 16-11 to advance Bessent’s nomination, clearing the way for a Senate floor vote in the coming days. Two Democrats — Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) — joined […]
Denali Vs Mount McKinley: Dispute Around Naming USA’s Tallest Mountain Predates Trump
Among the sweep of executive orders signed by the new US president Donald Trump is the decision to rename Denali as Mount McKinley. It’s a controversial move, but not unprecedented – just the latest chapter in a dispute that’s been going on for decades. Standing at 6,190 meters (20,310 feet) tall in south-central Alaska, the […]
Wendy Williams Guardianship Controversy Spurs N.Y. Senator to Push for New Law
Wendy Williams‘ guardianship woes are commanding the attention of at least one New York lawmaker … who’s making a big push so her family can easily visit her. Anthony Palumbo, a N.Y. state senator, tells TMZ … today, he is re-introducing a piece of legislation that would change guardianship laws regarding family visitation in the […]
Gautam Gambhir Visits Kalighat Temple Ahead Of India vs England 1st T20I In Kolkata
India will begin the new year with a T20I series against England at Eden Gardens, which will be their first series after the embarrassing defeat to Australia in the Border Gavaskar Trophy series Down Under. Before the series, India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir visited the famous Kali Temple at Kalighat to pray for […]
£15,000 invested in Tesco shares at the start of 2024 is now worth…
Tesco (LSE: TSCO) shares haven’t really set the world on fire over the past couple of decades. The group’s ambitious international expansion plans didn’t pan out as hoped while an accounting scandal in 2014 led to a dividend suspension and rocked investor confidence. More recently though, there seems to have been a reassessment of the […]
How A.I. Tools Helped the Travel Team Study Its ‘Places to Go’ Lists
We used several A.I. search engines, including Gemini, a large language model that can handle files of up to 750,000 words, and Semantra, an open-source “semantic search engine” that Mr. Freedman developed. Instead of searching for specific terms — “sustainability,” say, or “climate change” — it searches for concepts or themes. “It’s a new paradigm […]
After millennia as CO₂ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source
Map of Arctic-boreal zone study area depicting boreal forests, tundra, and permafrost region. Credit: Greg Fiske / Woodwell Climate Research Center After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the northern latitudes have nearly canceled out that critical storage capacity in the permafrost region, according to a […]
DNC and POLITICO host Midwest Regional National Officer Forum
The Democratic National Committee and POLITICO co-host an in-person candidate forum for DNC officer elections in Detroit, Michigan, focused on the Midwest region. The forum will be moderated by POLITICO journalists including Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels, White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns, Politics Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin, and National Political reporters […]
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Fuel That Could Take Humans To Mars Tested At NASA Facility
A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too-distant future. Getting to the Red Planet, as things currently stand, will be a long-haul mission. Mars is, on average, 140 million miles from […]
