Asteroid Nereus flyby Saturday. It’s worth $5B in precious metals

Asteroid Nereus will pass Earth at about 10 lunar distances on December 11, 2021. Scientists will study it. Its potential value is $5 billion in precious metals.

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Red Light Therapy Could Improve Eyesight After Declining Due to Age

The simple of act of staring at a deep-red or near infrared light source for about three minutes was found to be enough to improve color vision in those suffering from failing eyesight. The potential treatment allows the mitochondria in the human retina to produce more ATP, the principal energy currency of all cells, and […]

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Twilight in 1, 2, 3 stages

Twilight is that magical time between sunlight and darkness. Astronomers, the experts on nighttime, recognize three stages of twilight.

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In a warming world, deforestation turns the heat deadly, Borneo study finds – Mongabay.com

New research identifies how rising localized temperatures driven by deforestation and global warming are increasing heat-related deaths and creating unsafe working conditions in Indonesia. In the Bornean district of Berau, 4,375 square kilometers (1,689 square miles) of forest were cleared…

PM Scott Morrison Plays The Climate Game Like A Fiddle

Do you ever make a promise that you know you won’t keep? Keep, discard? Discard, keep? I dare say you might, at least every New Year. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised that he’ll stick with Australia’s target set in…

How the Mind Can Be ‘Trained Like a Muscle’ to Focus – Through A Simple Change of Outlook

When people say “I get distracted easily,” what they’re really saying is, “I receive less of the absolute miracle that is “focus” than other people,” because when we consider the 10 million bytes of imagery data the eyes give the brain each second or the 6,000 spontaneous thoughts we have each day, it truly seems […]

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Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate – Carbon Brief

The floods across Europe, China and the US in recent months have again brought to the fore the ability of extreme rainfall to take lives, destroy homes and displace communities. Evidence suggests climate change is causing increases in extreme precipitation,…

Why Everything You’ve Heard About Plastics Is Wrong

By now you must have noticed how many of the big news stories that have political significance to the left, and are hyped for months or years (or even decades) on end throughout the mainstream media, turn out to be…

As Climateers Reach Deal, COP26’s Carbon Footprint Has Doubled Since 2019

Earlier on Saturday, the nations gathered for the COP26 climate summit reached a deal. This comes after live updated reporting from The New York Times included a headline that noted “Negotiations Stretch Into the Night,” and went on to point…

Sikh Men Created a Lifeline Using Turbans to Rescue Hikers at a Canadian Park

When an emergency happens in the wilderness, quick thinking can often mean the difference between life and death. After accidentally sliding down the face of a steep rock wall, two wayward tourists who recently found themselves stranded by the edge of a deep pool at the base of a thundering waterfall in British Columbia’s Golden […]

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