REST IN PEACE 🙏 Gen. Chuck Yeager, one of the U.S. Air Force’s most decorated test pilots and the first person to break the sound barrier, has died. He was 97.

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Chuck Yeager was of the U.S. Air Force’s most decorated test pilots and was portrayed in the movie ‘The Right Stuff.’

The m4 solar flare could be a non event based on the last one that happened in 2014.

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Coronagraph imagery from SOHO/LASCO is now complete and shows that the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that was launched during the M4.5 solar flare from this past night has an earth-directed component.

A number of small earthquakes sent tremors through a number of California counties on Sunday morning.

The strongest quake was a magnitude 4.4 earthquake near Lakeport in Northern California.

A smaller – but still sizeable – magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit near Warner Springs in San Diego County.

O,.o lots of earthquakes lately globally o.o

Reprogramming nerve cells and hardware implants both add to visual acuity.

Glowing is always in fashion.

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A new species of mushroom has been discovered in the Assam province, northeastern India. It glows.

A team of researchers from India and China reports on two weeks of fieldwork in the Assam region, during which they spotted several new species of mushrooms. The most exciting of these is a species that locals describe as “electric mushrooms” that lives on dead bamboo. The species, christened Roridomyces phyllostachydis is bioluminescent — it produces its own light.

“The members of the genus Roridomyces are very fragile and they love moist and humid conditions,” explained Samantha Karunarathna, senior mycologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of the report.

Data from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet.

Google has started negotiating with Japanese media companies to sign them up as partners in its new program called Google News Showcase.

The recently launched project involves Google paying news publishers to deliver their stories.

Google has already signed partnerships with about 400 news organizations in 7 countries, including Germany and France. The company has invested more than 1 billion dollars in the project.

Aptera revealed its new EV. It starts at $25,900 and offers up to 1,000 miles of range with a full charge. Pre-orders require a refundable $100 deposit.