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Kandiss Taylor, a GOP district chair in Georgia, claimed the Earth is flat on her podcast, Jesus, Guns, & Babies, alongside fellow flat-Earther David ‘Flat Earth Dave’ Weiss and Matt Long. She becomes the latest GOP member to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, tacking this ideology onto her previous conspiracy theory exclamations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechThe three discussed the so-called “evidence” they say supports their belief that the Earth is not round as…

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures Superman: Legacy is now in the casting process, and Rachel Brosnahan, star of Prime Video’s critically successful The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is reportedly vying for the position of Metropolis’ Daily Planet’s next intrepid correspondent and the caped crusader’s love interest, Lois Lane. Brosnahan has won multiple honors, including a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and two consecutive Golden Globes for playing the quirky and brilliant Midge Maisel in…

CLIMATEWIRE | A record-breaking heat wave in the western Mediterranean last month would have been nearly impossible without the influence of climate change, new research finds. And even with the help of global warming, it was an extraordinary event. Statistically speaking, a heat wave of its magnitude should only have about a 1-in-400 chance of occurring in any given year. That’s the latest report from World Weather Attribution, a science initiative that investigates the links between climate change and extreme weather…

Amazonian dark earth (ADE) soil profile. Note that there is a black and a yellow layer. ADE corresponds only to the black layer. Credit: Luís Felipe Guandalin ZagattoAdding Amazonian dark earth to soils boosts plant growth, shows study.Adding Amazonian dark earth (ADE) to soils can significantly boost plant growth, according to a study by Brazilian scientists published in Frontiers in Soil Science. ADE, also known as terra preta, is highly fertile due to its richness in nutrients and stable organic matter. The researchers…

While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding. Thanks to ESA’s CryoSat satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data, scientists have discovered that glaciers worldwide have shrunk by a total of 2% in just 10 years. That adds up to 2720 Gigatonnes in all. This can be imagined as a giant ice cube, bigger than Europe’s highest mountain. Credit: ESA/Planetary VisionsScientists have used data from ESA’s…

Google Play Store is down for thousands of users across the globe. Many users have reported that they are not able to access Google’s application store on their smartphones and a few of them have also marked the issue on Downdetector, a platform that recognises outages of services. Since the morning of April 25, thousands of users have reported that they are unable to view or download apps on their Android devices. For those who are unaware, Android is the most used mobile operating system across the globe and its…

Credit: Noah Holm, Unsplash A new major study documents that religiously motivated legislation has taken place in all types of societies and religions—to the detriment of democratic rights. The researchers behind the study also find that religion is still used to oppress women in particular and to give lawmakers unchallenged power. …

In May and June of 2018, Australia's first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a sheep station northwest of Winton in Queensland.I was part of the dig team from the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum that made the discovery, and subsequently had the privilege of leading the team that studied the skull. After years of work, our results are published today in Royal Society Open Science.The skull belonged to a creature we have dubbed "Ann": a member…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you? think of a solution to the problem.Puzzle – Find the position in the globeSolution:The answer to this classic puzzle is that you must be standing at the North Pole.Explanation:Imagine you’re standing at the North Pole. If you were to walk one mile directly south, you would be moving away from…

Last year, Specialized announced that it was branching out with a dedicated effort to persuade commuters to leave the car at home and ride into town on two wheels instead. Now the Globe Haul ST has launched as the first fruit of that vision.The inaugural model in "a growing number of everyday high-performance EVs" under the Globe banner, the Haul ST is built around a one-size low-step aluminum frame with dual-telescoping seat post and adjustable handlebars to accommodate riders between 4.4 and 6.3 ft (1.34 - 1.93 m) in…