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Scientists have created the largest ever supermassive black hole map. The map, which is featured in a paper in The Astrophysical Journal, showcases more than 1.3 million quasars found in space and time. The furthest black hole featured in the map existed when the universe was only 1.5 billion years old, over 12 billion years ago.The map itself is showcased in a video within the paper, and it’s somewhat terrifying to think of all those supermassive black holes bounding their way through our universe, including…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Public health strategies among young people must address violence against women and risky sexual practices associated with pornography exposure, Queensland University of Technology researchers say in new research. The researchers from the QUT School of Justice, Professor Michael Flood and Ph.D. candidates Maree Crabbe and…

Honda invited us out to its US R&D Center in Torrance, California to drive the new fuel cell plug-in hybrid version of the CR-V, which gets released later this year. Is this first-ever hybrid between a battery EV and fuel cell EV the future of electric cars? Honda’s CR-V e:FCEV (say that ten times fast) is the first in a new generation of Honda’s fuel cell technology, much improved over the hydrogen fuel cells in its earlier fuel cell vehicles, the FCX and Clarity (the Clarity’s fuel cells are now…

Cambridge University said it was suspending donations from fossil fuel companies. Britain's Cambridge University confirmed on Monday that it has adopted a moratorium on new funding from fossil fuel companies after a campaign from students and academics. The decision to halt funding until a review is carried out follows recommendations in a report by former UN climate change envoy Nigel…

Honda GL1800 Gold Wing. (File photo)As per the details shared by the brand, it will repair faulty components free of cost, and offer the customers a seamless experience throughout the process.The premium two-wheeler manufacturer Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has recalled the CBR1000RR and GL1800 Gold Wing in India. The report says the decision has been taken over the faulty fuel pump in both vehicles.The report suggested that the problem has been seen in the Gold Wings, which was manufactured between December…

A privately funded satellite is set to push methane tracking into a new era, once it launches into space on Monday.A collaborative mission between Environmental Defense Fund, Google, the Government of New Zealand and several other partners, MethaneSAT will track methane emissions around the globe in attempts to identify and quantify sources spewing the climate-heating greenhouse gas. For 20 years after its release into the atmosphere, methane gas is 80 times more harmful than carbon dioxide in its ability to increase…

Fuel scarcity looms in the nation’s capital, Abuja, as commuters and commercial drivers formed long queues at fuel stations in different parts of the city on Friday. While there were queues at some filling stations visited on Friday, other stations were under lock and key. When this newspaper visited one of the stations, Chukuemeka Eze, a road transport worker, told PREMIUM TIMES that he had been in the queue in Apo for four hours under the scorching sun. Mr Eze told this reporter he had noticed the queues on…

It has recently been shown that the biocatalyst iron nitrogenase not only fixes nitrogen, but also carbon dioxide. However, this nitrogenase form has so far been the least studied. Now two proteins have been identified that are crucial for the energy supply of the enzyme. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology/GeiselDiscovering essential electron carriers in nitrogenases opens new paths for eco-friendly chemical production, addressing a long-standing research bottleneck.Nitrogenases are considered…

Expected breakdown of leadership in the event of a Biden versus Trump election win moderated by political orientation and projected moral polarization: Study 1 (United States). Credit: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2024). DOI: 10.1177/13684302231223896 People's feelings about how morally divided a society is in the lead-up to an election can cause them to have extreme reactions if the result doesn't go their way,…

Anthropic, a major player in generative artificial intelligence, announced new models to fuel its Claude AI chatbot, the company said on Monday, as ChatGPT faces more rivals.The company said three new AI models - called Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku - were its most high-performing tools yet and were industry leading in terms of their ability to match human intelligence. Founded in 2021, Anthropic was created by former employees of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and has been funded by Google and partnered with…