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Sometime this year, the night sky will get a brand new 'star' that will be visible with the naked eye, even in the city. The celestial light show will be the result of an explosive interaction between two neighboring stars that occurs every 80 years.Located in the Northern Crown constellation, T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is a pretty average looking star, most of the time. With a brightness of about magnitude +10, it’s right on the limits of what you could see with a pair of binoculars, and even if you do go looking there’s…

BMW Charging has just launched in North America as an additional EV charger network powered by Shell Recharge. The newly expanded network gives BMW EV drivers access to over 100,000 chargers across the continent, easily accessible from the vehicle itself or an app. BMW is working through the first quarter of 2024 with hopes of carrying the electrified momentum it saw a year prior. In 2023, BMW’s all-electric sales nearly doubled while the German automaker continued to roll out new models to its lineup,…

Photo: Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Great news for EVs: Lithium Nevada got the green light for a $2.26 billion loan from the US Department of Energy to finance a lithium carbonate processing plant. Once the Thacker Pass mine and processing plant in Humboldt County are online, they will become North America’s largest source of lithium for EV batteries. The Thacker Pass processing plant will produce around 40,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate annually for the use of EV…

Britpop legends last performed on the continent in 2012 Pulp are finally returning to North America this fall, marking the Sheffield band’s first tour on the continent in over a decade. The brief trek will kick off at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom on Sept. 8, followed by stops in Toronto, Brooklyn, and San Francisco. The shows will wrap in Los Angeles on Sept. 18 at the Hollywood Palladium. Pulp’s last time performing in North America was Coachella 2012, and American fans have been eagerly…

Respawn, the EA-owned studio behind Apex Legends has postponed the North American Finals tournament after hackers broke into matches and equipped players with cheats. The developer posted to X, formerly Twitter, that the delay has been caused due to the "competitive integrity of the series being compromised." Footage of the hacks, available available on Twitch, gave players the ability to see their opponent's location while notable player ImperialHal was handed an aimbot which artificially improves their aim while…

Overview of the study area. Credit: Journal of Geographical Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s11442-023-2187-6 A study published in the Journal of Geographical Sciences reveals a novel method for reconstructing historical warm season temperatures in North China. Utilizing the blue intensity (BI) of tree rings of Picea meyeri, researchers have developed a 281-year chronology, offering unprecedented insights into the region's…

On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light, beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, is a tall, straight overstory tree that thrives in cold winters and cool summers. It’s the official Minnesota state tree and a valued target of its timber industry.But red pine’s days of dominance here could fade. In coming decades, climate change will make red pine and other Northwoods trees increasingly vulnerable to…

Winter temperature (red solid curve) increases over past decades. Within the study period (1989–2021), the number of extreme cold days (blue solid line) in North China increases around the year 2003 and then decreases around the year 2013. The dashed lines are 5-year-smoothed data. Credit: Zhu Yali How extreme weather and climate events change is an intriguing issue in the context of global warming. As IPCC AR6 points out, cold…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study finds that prosecutors in North Carolina believe "drug-induced homicide" (DIH) laws are effective at both reducing drug overdoses in a community and curtailing the distribution of illicit drugs. These beliefs are worth noting because there is no evidence to support them, while there is evidence that DIH prosecutions make people in affected communities less likely to call 911—and…

Two firms developing a RiNo apartment building with a greenery-filled “canyon” now own an adjacent property. The 3911 and 3963 Walnut St. parcels, which combined are 0.93 acres, sold last week to Washington D.C.-based Uplands Real Estate Partners and Denver-based Wynne Yasmer Real Estate, operating as 40th & Walnut Project LLC. The properties have a handful of industrial buildings on them. The sale price was $9 million, or $221 a square foot. Uplands and Wynne Yasmer submitted development plans for the site in early…