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by Anthony Dosseto, Katharine Haynes, Leanne Brook, Victor Channell, The Conversation Slow, cool burns are safe for onlookers. Credit: Ulladulla Local Aboriginal Land Council Imagine a landscape shaped by fire, not as a destructive force but as a life-giving tool. That's the reality in Australia, where Indigenous communities have long understood the intricate relationship…

For years, the main way of cleaning up space junk and retired satellites has been to let them burn up as they reenter Earth’s atmosphere. For the most part, scientists have always assumed it was relatively safe. Now, though, new research suggests burning satellites up on re-entry is leaving metal particles in the atmosphere.There are a number of reasons why metal particles being left in the atmosphere isn’t a great thing, including the fact that Business Insider reports it could lead to the development of polar…

Elon Musk's SpaceX has announced it will dispose of 100 Starlink satellites over the next six months, after it discovered a design flaw that may cause them to fail. Rather than risk posing a threat to other spacecraft, SpaceX will "de-orbit" these satellites to burn up in the atmosphere.But atmospheric scientists are increasingly concerned that this sort of apparent fly-tipping by the space sector will cause further climate change down on Earth.One team recently, and unexpectedly, found potential ozone-depleting metals…

Because Song Psychic is pre-populated with questions it thought would be the most commonly asked, you can't ask an original question. However, you can type a question you'd like to ask and select from one of the many questions in the dropdown that best matches your question. Also: I tried replacing Twitter with Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon: What I foundThen Song Psychic will match a song to the question, with the title revealing the answer. You can listen to the song and share the results on social media. Of course,…

Because Song Psychic is pre-populated with questions it thought would be the most commonly asked, you can't ask an original question. However, you can type a question you'd like to ask and select from one of the many questions in the dropdown that best matches your question. Also: I tried replacing Twitter with Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon: What I foundThen Song Psychic will match a song to the question, with the title revealing the answer. You can listen to the song and share the results on social media. Of course,…

It's been more than a year since Huawei came out with a clamshell foldable smartphone to rival Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip offerings. Huawei had made a decent first attempt but it fell short of overshadowing Samsung's flip phone. The company has taken its time to prepare the next iteration in its Pocket lineup of clamshell foldables, launching the Huawei Pocket 2 earlier this week. It can be considered a direct competitor to the Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 5, as that's the most popular foldable phone in the form factor right…

Every year, tens of thousands of people gather here in the Mojave Desert with two goals: to see some incredible off-road racing and to lose their minds in the kind of unbridled debauchery their mothers always warned them about. King of the Hammers is often described as “Burning Man for rednecks,” and while the drug of choice is usually Coors Light and the cars are valued for performance rather than artistic sensibilities, the description works. This year, nearly 80,000 people came to the camping area on Means Dry Lake,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Listen, do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Good—because if you tell, people will often think you're an "a-hole." That's part of the conclusion drawn by Einav Hart, assistant professor of management at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, in a recently published…

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has just received its first big post-launch patch, plugging several exploitable holes in the game with a variety of fixes. The most prominent of these was a bug found when dealing Burning damage, as players discovered that they could exponentially stack this elemental effect to be far more lethal than what was intended.As it explained on the Suicide Squad Discord group, Rocksteady originally planned for Burn to scale more modestly as players took on tougher Mastery…

A helicopter hovering high above the ground canvasses a portion of snow-covered terrain near Fox Lake, east of High Level, Alta.On the ground, about 20 provincial firefighters, fully dressed in bunker gear, scout the area to map out wildfire hotspots and dig up ground fires."Our firefighters are always monitoring fires in the winter, so we're taking flights and checking out some of our carryover fires," said Victoria Ostendorf, a wildfire information officer for the High Level Forest area."But it's not as common to see as…