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Observed temperature trends during the winters (Dec–Feb) of 1995/96–2021/22. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) If the world is warming, why are our winters getting colder? Indeed, East Asia and North America have experienced frequent extreme weather events since the 2000s that defy average climate change projections. Many experts have blamed Arctic warming and a weakening jet stream due to declining…

Google this morning posted another teaser for the upcoming Mint color of the Pixel 8 Pro. This time suggesting what the hue or shade of green the color will be. If you missed it initially, at the end of last week Google teased the Pixel 8 Pro would be coming in a new color. The teaser didn’t explicitly state that a new color was coming. It did, however, say that fans should expect something “Minty Fresh” to be revealed on January 25. The hint was accompanied by a picture of a Bay Pixel 8 Pro being “spray-painted” over…

Daniel Dolomont, Muneeb Azher, Victoria Vaters and C-CORE vice-president of remote sensing Desmond Power are just a few members of the big team behind the Killick-1 cube satellite. (Submitted by Memorial University)A team of students at Memorial University is counting down to blast-off. The group of engineers designed and built their own satellite, with a plan to monitor climate data and sea ice in Newfoundland and Labrador.Named the Killick-1, the cube satellite is about to be sent into space as part of SpaceX's mission…

An exoplanet discovered just 73 light-years away is offering a glimpse into what baby Earth might have looked like – if it was locked in a scorchingly tight orbit with its star.The world is named HD 63433 d, a newborn exoplanet that's just a titch bigger than Earth, orbiting a star that is just like the Sun. It's the smallest planet we've found yet that is less than 500 million years old, a rare window into the formation of planets similar to, but not entirely like, our own world.Earth is the only world that we know for…

Aquaculture startup AquaExchange has raised $6 million in a funding round led by Ocean 14 Capital. Existing investors, including Endiya Partners and Accion Venture Lab, also participated in the round.The funds will be used to scale the adoption of the company’s full-stack business model including farm automation, crop financing and harvest procurement.The startup also plans to focus its efforts on a few international markets for device exports.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

A leading expert on sperm whales has gathered the evidence and shown that the biggest-brained animals on Earth form large and complex clans with unique dialects and behaviors.Using some rough calculations based on sperm whale populations, Hal Whitehead from Dalhousie University in Canada estimates that many of these clans number in the tens of thousands.Seven clans alone live in the North Pacific, according to recent underwater acoustic data, and yet despite their shared genes, it's extremely rare for these groups to…

Astrobotic bid farewell to its Peregrine lunar lander on Thursday as the spacecraft plunged through Earth’s atmosphere, thereby preventing the failed mission from colliding into other spacecraft. China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe Pittsburgh-based company lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. ET, with the spacecraft potentially performing a control reentry over the South Pacific at 4:04 p.m. ET. Astrobotic is still waiting on confirmation from government agencies that its lunar lander completely…

CLIMATEWIRE | Dragging giant nets along the seafloor to catch fish — a practice known as bottom trawling — has long been criticized by environmentalists as destructive to underwater ecosystems.Now, research suggests it’s bad for the climate as well.A study published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science finds that bottom trawling may release as much as 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. That’s equivalent to about half the emissions produced annually by the entire…

The fillet of flounder sitting on your plate comes with a severe environmental cost. To catch it, a ship running on fossil fuels spewed greenhouse gases as it dragged a trawl net across the seafloor, devastating the ecosystems in its path. Obvious enough. But new research shows that the consequences extend even further: Trawl nets are hauling up both food and a huge amount of carbon that’s supposed to be sequestered in the murky depths.In a paper publishing in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers have…

Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into Fisker’s first electric vehicle over braking problems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) issued a notice that it’s probing Fisker’s Ocean SUV for loss of braking performance. The agency is focusing on nine complaints about the issue thus far, including one incident involving a crash and an unspecified injury. A Fisker spokesperson declined to comment. The probe comes as…