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Chapter 2 of Alone in the Dark places you back in Derceto, with your primary objective to repair the plate in the Clock found on the second floor in the Gallery. In order to repair the clock, you will need to find the two missing clock plate pieces before you can continue forward. One can be found in the garden area, while the other is located in Perosi's Bedroom.The Garden Well clock plate pieceThe clock plate piece can be retrieved from the well by filling it with water.The first clock plate piece can…

A satellite image of a phytoplankton bloom off the coast of St. John’s, N.L. Credit: NASA, MODIS Rapid Response Every year in the mid-latitudes of the planet, a peculiar phenomenon known as the phytoplankton spring bloom occurs. Visible from space, spectacular large and ephemeral filament-like shades of green and blue are shaped by the ocean currents. …

Last updated: February 28th, 2024 at 22:08 UTC+01:00 Samsung has released a big new update for the default Clock app on Galaxy smartphones and tablets. The Galaxy S24 series, which launched last month running One UI 6.1 out of the box, introduced some new features and customization options in the Clock app, and it appears Samsung is now bringing those to older devices. Custom alarm backgrounds, vibration intensity, and more One of the most interesting additions is the option to select a custom background that you…

Credit: Solène Delecourt A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, and research has shown that the human brain does indeed better retain information from images than from text. These days, we are taking in more visual content than ever as we peruse picture-packed news sites and social media platforms. And much of that visual content,…

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by Elizabeth M. Ross, Harvard Gazette Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new report from the Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration between the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard and the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, shows that some states, including Massachusetts, are still struggling to close academic achievement gaps that widened during…

Cover of the 1947 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists issue, featuring the Doomsday Clock at seven minutes to midnight. Credit: Public domain/Wikimedia Once every year, a select group of nuclear, climate and technology experts assemble to determine where to place the hands of the Doomsday Clock. Presented by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the…

Once every year, a select group of nuclear, climate and technology experts assemble to determine where to place the hands of the Doomsday Clock. Presented by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock is a visual metaphor for humanity's proximity to catastrophe. It measures our collective peril in minutes and seconds to midnight, and we don't want to strike 12. In 2023, the expert group brought the clock the closest it has ever been to midnight: 90 seconds. On January 23 2024, the Doomsday Clock was…

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Despite a 2024 so far marked with serious conflicts, climate uncertainty and the rapid ascension of AI technologies, the famous Doomsday Clock has remained paused at 90 seconds to midnight, the same time as last year.The clock, created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, aims to signify how close to world destruction we are. While it initially focused on nuclear annihilation – fittingly, given Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and other Manhattan Project scientists were among its founders – it was…