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‘It’s the most significant prehistoric discovery to have been recently made in Australia.’

Queensland Museum’s research team made a significant discovery on prehistory a couple of months ago by finding a 100 million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with its body and a head together. Now, researchers are putting a spotlight on the future of prehistoric studies.

As reported by CNN, three amateur fossil hunters discovered the remains of a 19-foot (6-meter) tall juvenile long-necked plesiosaur, commonly known as an elasmosaur, in August on a cattle station in the western Queensland outback.

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Environmentalists are up in arms.

The U.K. has approved its first coal mine in 30 years, despite climate concerns. The British government approved the move on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, just one year after it hosted the major climate summit, COP26, reported the BBC

The mine, near Whitehaven in Cumbria, will take two years to build and is set to produce around 2.8 tonnes of coking coal per year, according to the Washington Post.

Environmentalists have voiced their concerns, saying the new mine will stoke global emissions and spread a negative message around the world about Britain’s climate image.

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Twitter is rumored to re-roll-out its flopped Twitter Blue subscription tomorrow, which will once again enable people to pay real cash money to get a blue check next to their name. Hopefully, this time, it won’t lead to mass impersonation and misinformation, but who can say? Yet already, some users are noting that when they click on an existing blue check (not of the $8 variety), they’re served with a pop-up that says, “This is a legacy verified account. It may or may not be notable.”

This is especially funny when it appears on accounts like The White House, or even Elon Musk’s Twitter itself. To be fair, is Elon Musk really notable? He didn’t even found Tesla.

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An electric vehicle for around $7,300? You heard that right. Honda announced today a new light commercial electric van set to launch in spring 2024 that’s ideal for both personal and business use.

With a starting price of 1 million yen, which currently amounts to about $7,300, Honda’s new electric commercial van is about as cheap as it gets for new vehicles (ICE or electric).

The new EV is based on Honda’s light commercial N-VAN, released in 2018. However, with the rising demand for zero-emission EV options for business and personal use, the automaker will carry the qualities current customers love the most (large storage space, ease of use, flexibility), converting it into an electric workhorse.

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new studies that present a scientific creation of artificial life.
Papers: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867421002932
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/6/52/eabf1571
Old papers: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5987/52?ijkey=844…f_ipsecsha.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14657399/
Press release and video/images: https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/team-builds-first-living-robots.
Images:
James Pelletier (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms and Department of Physics) and Elizabeth Strychalski (National Institute of Standards and Technology))
DOUGLAS BLACKISTON, Tufts University.
Otofrog, CC BY-SA 4.0
Charles Daghlian.
Universal Studios, NBCUniversal — Dr. Macro.
www.scientificanimations.com, CC0
IDKlab, CC0

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