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Paleoclimate records for the last 400,000 years in the study region of Hajar mountains, Oman. This includes alluvial records of wetter (blue) and drier (orange) conditions from both the sample sites and literature (a), lake sediments (b), speleothem records from Hoti Cave (c), marine organic carbon from bromine (d), prediction of Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon (e), solar insolation reaching Earth at 30°N in June (f), and benthic oxygen isotopes as a proxy…

Terran Orbital CEO Marc Bell told employees Monday the company is not looking for a buyer in an effort to quash a report that it was seeking bids by the end of the month, according to sources who spoke to TechCrunch. Bell’s comments came during an all-hands meeting with staff, following a Wall Street Journal article stating that the satellite manufacturer was up for sale. In a separate email simply titled “WSJ,” which was sent to all staff, Bell said the WSJ got the story “very wrong” and “we are working with them to…

SaaS — software-as-a-service — was the paradigmatic acronym for startups operating over the last decade. But if Loft Orbital has its way, SaaS will soon come to mean something very different: space infrastructure-as-a-service. The San Francisco-based startup has already made enormous progress by developing what it calls an “abstraction layer” between the satellite bus and payloads: It buys standard satellites from vendors like Airbus and LeoStella and outfits them with payloads from customers, saving them the hassle…

The annual Art Vinyl prize for the best designed vinyl album cover has announced its shortlist, celebrating the creatives behind the most memorable covers this year. The winner will be announced in January 2024, and all will be exhibited at Quarterhouse in Folkestone. Here’s a selection of the best The annual Art Vinyl prize for the best designed vinyl album cover…

Samantha Harvey’s four previous novels have roamed through vastly different settings, but their common subject is her characters’ inner landscape, and the ways in which perceptions are altered by time and memory. Her unconventional plots are shaped less by external incident than by philosophical inquiry into the nature of existence and how we make meaning from a life, often from the perspective of distance or in the shadow of death. Orbital, her fifth novel, takes this idea to its logical conclusion; six astronauts of…

Infinix GT 10 Pro was launched in India on Thursday as a mid-range smartphone aimed at gamers in the country. The newest handset from the Transsion Group subsidiary is powered by a Dimensity 8050 chipset from MediaTek and is equipped with a 108-megapixel primary camera. Last week, pre-bookings for Samsung's latest foldable phones opened after pricing for the phones in India was revealed by the South Korean smartphone maker. Meanwhile, the Amazon Great Freedom Festival sale started at midnight on Friday, half a day after…

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 was launched by the company last month, and the foldable handset will go on sale in the country alongside the Galaxy Z Fold 5 on August 18, the company confirmed on Friday. The latest foldable phones from the South Korean tech conglomerate were unveiled at its first Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul, South Korea. This year, Samsung brought a few notable hardware upgrades to the Galaxy Z Flip 5 including the processor, hinge, and the outer screen.Senior Reviewer Sheldon Pinto, who attended the recent…

Six astronauts are bobbing about in a spacecraft, looking out at their planet as they circle it. From up here, 250 miles above the surface, Japan is a wisp. The Philippines appear “scarily frail”. Though the views are on a planetary scale, the object of their mesmerised observation is as intricate as a Fabergé egg. All of Europe is “outlined with fine precision”, ringed by a golden thread of night-lit roads. Autumn blooms in the Jiuzhaigou valley, Tunisian salt flats glow in cloisonné pink. The astronauts who turn and…

After plenty of speculation about the Nothing's Phone 2, we now have the brand teasing details of the handset's design. The phone is all set to be unveiled on July 11 and as the launch date draws closer, Nothing has begun revealing official teasers at a faster pace. The latest one reveals a tiny part of the design of the upcoming Nothing Phone 2, showcasing just the bottom-right corner of the device. While it's just a fraction of the phone's design, there's plenty to talk about. We delve into how well Nothing's design…

ODIN Space has passed a major milestone by powering up a super-sensitive experimental in-space sensor. Once fully developed, a dispersed network of these sensors could be capable of tracking hypervelocity objects no larger than a grain of sand.Coastal Animals Are Thriving on Plastic Pollution Out in the Pacific Ocean | Extreme EarthThe sensor technology, installed on the D-Orbit ION satellite, launched intospace on June 12 as part of SpaceX’s Transporter 8 mission. As ODIN Space announced in a June 27 press release, the…