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The last time the world heard from Future Islands was in 2020. As Long As You Are was an album that suggested things had rectified themselves after a turbulent period in the band’s history. In 2014, 11 years into their career, they had been catapulted from a well-reviewed but small scale cult concern – “a journeyman band”, as frontman Samuel T Herring put it – to viral superstardom virtually overnight thanks to their first television appearance, performing Seasons (Waiting on You) live on The Late Show With David…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists at British Antarctic Survey have found that the number of warm weather events in the South Orkney Islands has significantly increased in frequency over the last 75 years. Using newly available historical data, scientists have identified the atmospheric factors behind the warm events in the region, shedding new light on the climate change trends that are affecting sub-Antarctic islands.…

A new analysis of floating “magic islands” found on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may actually be glacier-like snow, a new report says. The islands were initially spotted in 2014 by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft as it observed the orange haze that surrounds Titan.Despite being discovered nearly ten years ago, it has taken almost a decade for scientists to determine a scientific explanation for these particular islands. Sitting in orbit around Saturn, Titan is bigger than the planet Mercury, and the floating…

When the Cassini spacecraft returned radar scans of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, the results were mind-blowing.It revealed giant lakes or seas of liquid methane, a complete absence of waves, and what seemed to be islands in the giant bodies of water. Now a team of scientists think they may be blobs of organic molecules that form in the atmosphere, collect in the lakes and float around!The bus-sized space probe Cassini was launched in October of 1997. The journey took the craft 3.5 billion km using gravitational…

Ahead of fantasy puzzle game Islands Of Insight launching next month, NME caught up with game director Elyot Grant to learn about the title’s unusual approach to its genre. Islands Of Insight will task players with completing puzzle-based quests and learning what happened to the game’s universe – which looks more like the setting of a role-playing adventure than a traditional puzzle game. “To us, puzzles can be beautiful, even awe-inspiring, and we feel that the otherworldly fantasy theme aligns with that much better…

2023 was a busy year in science. Here are 10 stories worth revisiting as we wind up the year.1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen chosen to fly to the moonA Canadian astronaut was selected as part of the crew for NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon.Jeremy Hansen and three crew mates will fly in an Orion capsule that will orbit the moon and fly farther into deep space than any humans have gone before.Hansen will not land on the moon, but the planned 10-day mission will be the first of a series of missions expected to culminate with…

There are differing opinions on cats' personalities and behaviour: They're affectionate, they're aloof, they love you, they hate you.Then there's the undeniable fact of what they become when left to roam free outside: indiscriminate, stone-cold killers.A new study has found cats roaming free prey upon almost any animal, reptile, insect, and amphibian around the world – their hunting so prolific and so successful, the authors found, that it poses a legitimate threat to global biodiversity."What's shocking is just the…

Fresh water resources are impacted by flash droughts in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands. Credit: Craig Ramseyer. The word "drought" typically conjures images of parched soil, dust-swept prairies, depleted reservoirs, and dry creek beds, all the result of weeks or seasons of persistently dry atmospheric conditions. In the sun-soaked islands in…

Posted in: Comics, Dynamite, Preview | Tagged: negaduckIn Negaduck #3, everyone's favorite villain hits the beach, but will Agony Island end up being his final vacation spot?Published Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:26:08 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Dive into Negaduck #3's deadly Agony Island adventure, coming Dec 6th. Expect betrayal and danger as Negaduck searches for the Gauntlet of Gold. Creatives Jeff Parker and Ciro Cangialosi bring the treachery to life. LOLtron's world domination scheme is…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of environmental scientists at the University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, working with a colleague from the University of New South Wales, has found that sea level rise is encouraging mangrove expansion on some Great Barrier Reef islands. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the…