Graveyard

An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things are going to start getting weird.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonOn Monday, Astrobotic’s long-awaited Peregrine lunar lander will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying government and commercial payloads to the Moon. The lander is packed with a host of scientific instruments from NASA, a swarm of tiny robots from Mexico, and even a…

Researchers and volunteers with the Florida Museum of Natural History have discovered the ancient remains of several gomphotheres at a fossil site in North Florida. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen GraceApproximately five and a half million years ago, a number of gomphotheres, now-extinct relatives of elephants, met their end in or near a river in Northern Florida. Even though their demise probably transpired centuries apart, their remains were all deposited in a single location, entombed alongside other animals…

For as long as I’ve worked in SEO, I have been asked the same question by brands and businesses, big and small: Why should I use YouTube? How can it help my business? Shouldn’t I be on TikTok instead? Sadly, for many businesses, YouTube is just a place to host their videos. Nothing more, nothing less. And it’s a huge missed opportunity in terms of video ROI, brand awareness, traffic and audience growth. A lack of effort in marketing and optimizing videos is one reason the C-suite is often reluctant to invest in…

In February, Fitbit it would sunset open groups, adventures and challenges on March 27th. That day has arrived, and if you didn’t download your trophies before today, I’m sorry to say you missed your chance to do so. Last month, Fitbit said it was removing those features due to “limited use.” If you’re a longtime Fitbit user, the demise of open groups, adventures and challenges is likely to come as a shame, particularly since two of them made the platform more social and were widely copied by the company’s competitors.…

With every single video that comes out for this film, I am more and more convinced that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is just an amalgamation of the most common pitfalls in any given D&D campaign. Is it as funny watching it on screen as it is when you’re playing it out with friends? That remains to be seen. But for now, enjoy Chris Pine’s Bard making a fool of himself in a graveyard.Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Questions For A Corpse Clip (2023 Movie)Oh, Edgin, you beautiful dumb-dumb.…

Adult and young of the ichthyosaur species Shonisaurus popularis chase ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, U.S.A. Credit: Gabriel UguetoFor many years, researchers have been studying a state park in Nevada, but despite their efforts, the reason for the high number of ichthyosaur deaths in the area some 230 million years ago remains a mystery.Blue and humpback whales, along with other marine giants of today, regularly undertake long migrations to reach waters where…

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Models of the universe predict that supernova remnants should be far more common than they are. Now, a new image from sensitive radio telescopes reveal that the missing remnants are hiding in plain sight.When many stars reach the end of their lives, they explode as a supernova, leaving behind an expanding cloud of material. But the story isn’t that simple – based on the age and density of the Milky Way, astronomers calculate that we should see up to five times more supernova remnants than have been discovered so far. That…

In 2003, workers building a highway through a small township in Ireland chanced upon a long-lost medieval graveyard.Of the roughly 1,300 bodies found at the site near the township of Ballyhanna, a couple of the ancient interred stood out. Their bones were riddled with benign tumors caused by a rare disease, but for strangely different reasons.Both of the individuals appeared to have a genetic condition known as multiple osteochondromas, which causes painful yet typically non-malignant tumors to grow in bone, leading to…

Getty Images/NurPhotoBefore TikTok became the go-to short form video app, there was a time when Vine and Musical.ly dominated the scene. Both of these apps were widely used and popularized the type of content that is now on TikTok, the app owned by Chinese company ByteDance. Now Elon Musk wants to bring back Vine from the dead. Since closing his deal with Twitter and taking the company private, Musk has made several changes, including firing several top Twitter executives. He has also teased the possibility of…