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Last Updated: November 16, 2022, 13:26 ISTImage for representation. (Photo: Reuters)England football team flew to Doha on a plane named "Rain Bow", which featured an image of a man holding a union flag and wearing rainbow-colored trainersVirgin Atlantic’s gender-neutral uniform policy did not apply to the crew on board the England team’s flight to the World Cup in Qatar. The airline removed the requirement for its employees to wear gendered uniform options, it said in September, explaining they could “wear the clothing…

Divers with a recent film crew over wreckage identified as part of Challenger.Photo: The HISTORY® ChannelA film crew working on a series about the Bermuda Triangle has made an unexpected discovery off the coast of Florida: a 20-foot segment of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded in flight in one of NASA’s major tragedies. The Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, about 73 seconds after the spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 46,000 feet above the ground, the Shuttle exploded due to an…

Indian digital payments firm PhonePe is in talks to raise funds in a round led by General Atlantic at a valuation of $12 billion (roughly Rs. 99,300 crore), financial news website Moneycontrol reported on Friday, citing people aware of the matter.US private equity group General Atlantic is likely to lead the round with an investment of $450 million (roughly Rs. 3,720 crore) to $500 million (roughly Rs. 4140 crore), the report said.The round would make Walmart-backed PhonePe the most valuable Indian financial tech firm,…

The findings indicate that, before the Little Ice Age, the North Atlantic climate system lost resilience and destabilized, potentially forcing it to “tip” into a new, colder state.A Little Ice Age study reveals new information about the North Atlantic climate system.Scientists have examined centuries-old clam shells to determine how the North Atlantic climate system reached a “tipping point” before the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age, a period of regional cooling that was particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic,…

Schematic illustration of the oceanic thermal forcing of North Atlantic tropical cyclones. Credit: Zhenxi Zhang Landfalling North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) cause serious economic damage to human society. In the period 1900–2017, 197 North Atlantic TCs resulted in 206 landfalls in the continental United States, producing about $2 trillion in losses. As natural weather disasters, TCs possess enormous destructiveness…

Modern surface-ocean conditions in the North Atlantic, the extension of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) and the IRD-belt in the North Atlantic during the Last Glacial Maximum. (a) Annual mean sea surface temperature (color shading) and surface circulation (arrows) in the study area. Yellow dot: location of core site GeoB18530-1 (42° 50´ N, 49° 14´ W; 1,888 m water depth; this study); white dots: location of reference core sites MD01-2461 (51°45´ N, 12°…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As major hurricanes slam the nation year after year, claiming dozens of lives and costing billions in damages, the impact of climate change on these natural events comes up often in political speeches and casual conversations. …

Music executive Julie Greenwald has been announced as chairman and CEO of the newly created Atlantic Music Group, which will oversee Atlantic Records, 300 Elektra Entertainment, and their various imprints.The five-time recipient of Billboard’s Women in Music Executive of the Year, Greenwald has helped foster some of Atlantic’s most successful acts of the past two decades. She’s worked with everyone from Cardi B and Coldplay, to Lizzo and Bruno Mars. Greenwald will continue to lead Atlantic Records itself alongside Craig…

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated — The internet's file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence. Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are…

British airline Virgin Atlantic on Wednesday announced it will no longer fly between London and Hong Kong, blaming the prolonged closure of Russian airspace. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Britain, Canada, and European Union countries banned Russian aircraft from their airspace. Russia retaliated by closing its airspace to dozens of countries including the UK. “We’ve taken the difficult decision to suspend our London Heathrow – Hong Kong services and close our Hong Kong office, after almost 30 years of proudly…