Autumn was closing in fast on northern Nevada when Martin Sander took one last look around the excavation site in the Augusta Mountains 150 miles (241 kilometers) east of Reno.
The longtime paleontologist from Germany had been working summers in Nevada for 20 years by that point and believed in the maxim that, “we find the spectacular things on the second to last day or last day.”
It was Oct. 3, 2011, and Sander and his team were nearing the end of a two-week expedition in an area that’s a hotspot for ichthyosaur fossils.
European manufacturing company Ovako has announced the results of a full-scale trial using hydrogen to heat steel before rolling, which could slash the industry’s carbon emissions.
I am ashamed of our Political & Social Leaders. What we have allowed over the past few days is a group of #AntifaThugs and #AgentProvocateurs to run amuck in our fine country. We have allowed this scum to burn and rob and murder all for the fake belief of Social Justice.
George Floyd was murdered in the streets. He was murdered by a bad cop who is going to face justice for his actions, for good or for ill. The other officers who were on the scene who have not been arrested most likely will be. If they are not, then they are going to live with the fact that they watched a man die, who they should have protected.
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Protesters in Nashville, Tennessee broke into Metro Courthouse, setting fires inside, as peaceful anti-police-brutality rallies slip into chaos and rioting all across the US.
Thousands of people marched peacefully through the city and gathered in the Public Square Park, chanting slogans against police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
Presidente, el pueblo se cansó de su falta de empatía, ya no cree en usted ni en la “cuarentena”.
Miles de comercios y pymes se están fundiendo, la mayoría no recibió ayuda del gobierno.
Si piensa que con autoritarismo o con el tinte dictador de su vicepresidente, puede seguir llevándonos a la miseria para vivir de las migajas del estado, sepa con este levantamiento que no va a ser así!
Humans are on the one hand capable of mass genocide, and on the other hand, great self-sacrifice. Why are we capable of such extremes? We talked about this with Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.
Launched in 2013, the Gaia satellite has been scanning the sky to measure the positions, distances and motions of more than one billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The goal of the mission is to create the most detailed galactic map ever made, in order to investigate the Milky Way’s past and future history like never before.
The animation below shows the satellite as it scans great circles around the sky. Eventually, the sky is unfolded to reveal the view of the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars from the second Gaia data release. The map shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by Gaia in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016. Brighter regions indicate denser concentrations of especially bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer bright stars are observed. In the middle of the image, the Galactic center appears vivid and teeming with stars.
Animation of data from ESA’s Gaia second release, which was made public on April 25, 2018.
