Ferocious

Undersea volcanic eruptions account for more than three-quarters of all volcanism on Earth, but rarely do we see the impacts.The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption of 2022 was a dramatic exception. Its furious explosion from shallow waters broke the ocean surface and punched through the stratosphere, generating supercharged lighting and an atmospheric shock wave that circled the globe several times.But there was far more to the fallout than satellite images could possibly capture or observers could report.We know the…

It’s 1995 and Drive Like Jehu are playing CBGB in New York City. Guitarist John Reis unfurls the riff to Sinews as some people in the crowd talk over him. To his left, looking like Thurston Moore’s little brother with his long arms emerging from an oversized T-shirt, Rick Froberg stands almost completely still, adding piercing notes to the squall. Almost 30 years later, while watching a VHS rip of the show on YouTube, it is still possible to feel the power of the moment, knowing that the blowhards in front of the stage…

Ever since The Blue Planet debuted more than two decades ago, we’ve been living in a particularly fruitful era of nature docs from the likes of the BBC and all of the various streamers. With all of that celebrity-voiced competition, it’s hard to do something new in the space, but Apple TV Plus managed it by looking at something old — really old.The first season of Prehistoric Planet had all the trappings of a traditional wildlife documentary, right down to the reassuring voice of Sir David Attenborough, but used them to…

Space agencies such as NASA and ESA, with the help of several space and ground-based telescopes, discover and track asteroids that are in space. Approximately 3,000 new NEOs are discovered annually, which makes continuous monitoring and trajectory prediction of these space rocks crucial. Although an asteroid isn't expected to hit Earth in the next 100 years, according to Dr. Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), nothing in life is certain. In, fact the uncertainty is around the many…

Garena Free Fire Redeem codes for April 20: Free Fire is as much a game of skill as much as it is about strategy. For example, you can be a great gunslinger, but if you do not choose your battles carefully, you will still end up losing more than winning. And that's why you should always make sure to find out just how many enemies are in a given area before entering there. You should also prioritize staking because that will help you gain a better understanding of the surroundings. Finally, you should try not to be the…

If Michael Mann made a movie in Iran it might look like this: a ferocious drama-thriller in which a haunted, morally ambiguous cop faces off with a despairing drug lord. We begin with a barnstorming chase sequence in which an officer runs after a drug dealer holding a bag of heroin; the scene climaxes with a shockingly nasty end for the dealer, setting a gruesome tone for the rest of the film.The director is Saeed Roustayi, whose Leila’s Brothers was in competition at Cannes last year; this is in fact his previous film.…

Before this year’s Hawkeye spinoff Echo brings both the deaf street-level warrior Echo and the blind Hell’s Kitchen defender Daredevil back to Disney Plus, Marvel Comics will unite the pair in a new book this May. Polygon has an exclusive look at the new miniseries, which pairs Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas — a seasoned comic book writer at this point, having penned Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Werewolf by Night, and stories in the Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices one-shots — and his regular collaborator B. Earl.…

“Music is bigger than words and wider than pictures” intoned a starry-eyed voice on Mogwai’s otherwise almost wordless 1997 debut, Mogwai Young Team. The Glasgow band’s mixture of sonic grandeur and spiky irreverence quickly established them as cult favourites, in opposition to the complacent tail-end of Britpop: goth in aesthetics and metal in spirit, but labelled “post-rock” because of their long, mostly instrumental tracks.Ninety minutes in their deafening company under the low ceiling of the Highbury Garage, as part…

Films: The Woman KingCast: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Jordan Bolger, Shaina West, Hero Fiennes TiffinDirector: Gina Prince-BythewoodRating: 3.5/5Runtime: 126 minutes An epic historical in which Viola Davis plays the fictionalised leader of the real-life Agojie, an elite unit of all-female warrior protectors and defenders of the kingdom of Dahomey - this one has all the ingredients of a block-buster in addition to the integrity, soul and vividly etched performances that literally…

NASA and other space agencies have been monitoring a huge asteroid that is set to pass Earth tomorrow. Know its speed, distance, trajectory and more here. NASA and other space agencies have been keeping a close eye on asteroids that pass near Earth, as these objects have the potential to be dangerous. The vast majority of asteroids can be found in the asteroid belt, a region of the solar system located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. However, some asteroids also have orbits that bring them closer to Earth. In…