Cycle

Exposed permafrost sediments and ice wedges in spring at a bluff near the Itkillik River, northern Alaska. These frozen permafrost sediments contain 50% more carbon than found in the atmosphere but can decompose if they warm and thaw. Credit: Jens Strauss, Alfred Wegener Institute Permafrost, or ground that is frozen for two or more years, stretches over about 14 million square kilometers in the Northern Hemisphere, 15% of the…

Net globally-integrated coastal fluxes of (a) CO2 , (b) N2O and (c) CH4 over the wide and narrow coastal oceans. Figure shows individual products and models (symbols) and their median and interquartile ranges. Models are shown for the full ensemble available (11 models for CO2 and 4 for N2O) and a subset of higher resolution models (4 models for CO2 and 2 for N2O, see Methods and Table 2 for details). Previous estimates available for the narrow…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new analysis of freshwater resources across the globe shows that the updated planetary boundary for freshwater change was surpassed by the mid-twentieth century. In other words, for the past century, humans have been pushing the Earth's freshwater system far beyond the stable conditions that prevailed before industrialization. …

Withings is late to the game when it comes to giving users the ability to track their menstrual cycles, but with the release of its ScanWatch Light – a hybrid smartwatch – users can now not only track their cycles with the ScanWatch Light, but also within the Withings app itself. Keep reading below for more details. Withing’s hybrid smartwatch, the ScanWatch Light, allows users to add cycle data right from their wrist, and now, users can also track their periods within the Withings app. Plenty of…

Apple has revealed that the iPhone 15 series have a longer battery cycle lifespan than the company's previous smartphone models. The company's documentation for its batteries has been updated to state that the iPhone 15 series can retain 80 percent of its battery capacity at twice as many charge cycles as its predecessors. With the upcoming iOS 17.4 update, the company's latest smartphone models will also be able to display the phone's battery "health" in the Settings app in addition to charge cycles.The company on…

As influential as the original Doom games are, it’d be interesting to know how much they’d stand the ravages of time were it not for modding and unusual ports. It set the building blocks for the FPS genre back in the day, but the fact that people continue to tweak the original formula shows just how much of an impact the series has had these past 30 years. Sometimes mods will even incorporate other horror franchises. Take this one that mixed Doom with Friday The 13th. Inspired. Now, here’s one for us Alien lovers,…

It’s safe to say crypto is experiencing renewed interest since the crash of 2022. Bitcoin just hit its highest price since 2021, the SEC’s approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs has investors very excited, and the market cap for all crypto just breached $2 trillion. But everyone who’s ready to FOMO their way into crypto should ask themselves: Should we really be doing this again?He Tossed His Bitcoin, Now He Wants It BackThe last time the crypto market was this hot was late 2021, and things were looking very rosy in the world of…

As part of Sony’s third-quarter earnings report, and as reported by Bloomberg, Sony has described the PlayStation 5 as entering the “latter stage” of its life cycle.  The report doesn’t elaborate on that statement. Sony doesn’t state that they are working on their next-generation console or an upgraded “Pro” model of the console. They also don’t define how “latter” is “latter,” whether they’re looking to end its lifespan next year or three years from now. However, it does sound like they’re suggesting the console is past…

Sony now expects to sell 4 million fewer PS5 consoles in its 2023 fiscal year ending March 31st compared to previous projections, Bloomberg reports. The revision came as part of today’s third-quarter earnings release which saw Sony lower the PS5 sales forecast from the 25 million consoles it expected to sell down to 21 million.While PS5 sales were up in Sony’s third quarter, increasing to 8.2 million units from 6.3 million in the same quarter the previous year, Bloomberg notes that this was roughly a million units lower…

Chief Scientist Frieder Klein and Deep Rover Pilot Alan Scot exploring a submerged carbonate platform. Credit: Novus Select Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The rocks…