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Owen Teague in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.Image: DisneyCenturies have passed since Caesar helped his fellow apes evolve beyond mere animals into the dominant species on the planet. Humans still exist, but only in hiding. And that’s where Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes picks up, following a new ape unaware of this history, who finds himself in another epic struggle.Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: 3 Things We Love and HateFrom director Wes Ball (The Maze Runner, and the upcoming Legend of Zelda), Kingdom of the Planet…

Children gathered at First Nations University of Canada in Regina Thursday watched in awe as astronaut Jeremy Hansen unveiled the patch, designed by an Indigenous artist, that he will wear as the first Canadian to fly to the moon.Hansen, who is from London, Ont., is one of four crew members set to travel around the moon during the Artemis ll mission, which is expected to embark as soon as September 2025.He spoke at Thursday's event about how time he has spent with Indigenous elders has shaped his beliefs and…

NASA's newest climate satellite rocketed into orbit Thursday to survey the world's oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail.SpaceX launched the Pace satellite on its $948-million US mission before dawn from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with the Falcon rocket heading south over the Atlantic Ocean to achieve a rare polar orbit.The satellite will spend at least three years studying the oceans from 676 kilometres up, as well as the atmosphere. It will scan the globe daily with two of the science instruments. A third…

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers…

A previously unknown satellite may be shaping the rings of Chariklo, a petite body that orbits the Sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, according to a team of astronomers that recently simulated the rings’ dynamics.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Chariklo is about 160 miles (257.5 kilometers) across and is one of the Centaurs, a group of icy bodies between Jupiter and the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Chariklo is the largest of these small bodies, making it similar to a large boulder the size of a small…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The alarm bells are loud and clear. Federal and international climate officials recently confirmed that 2023 was the planet's hottest year on record—and that 2024 may be even hotter. With a global average temperature of 58.96 degrees, Earth in 2023 was within striking distance of a dangerous limit: 2.7 degrees of warming over…

CLIMATEWIRE | With good weather and little luck, NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite will launch early Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight will conclude nearly a decade of mission development — and its payload could help usher in a new era of Earth science.“It’s groundbreaking,” said Jeremy Werdell, project scientist for the PACE satellite mission. “In 25 years at NASA, it’s the first mission I feel I can grow into instead of knowing exactly what I’m going to get. It’s going to not only produce so…

Jason Momoa graced the pages of People this week, chatting about his latest travel docuseries On the Roam. During the interview, he revealed that had he not become an actor, he would have opted for a political path to contribute towards saving the planet. Jason Momoa at the Los Angeles special screening of Common Ground on January 11, 2024 .(REUTERS) Momoa expressed his desire to make a positive impact on the environment. He was quoted as saying, "If I was still young Jason, 12-year-old Jason, I'd probably try…

January 1, 20242min readA newly spotted world is just perplexingly denseBy Allison Gasparini Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi (composite); ESO/Serge Brunier (background)A bizarrely dense exoplanet located more than 500 light-years from Earth is challenging scientists' understanding of how planets form. This astronomical body, recently described in Nature, is the size of the ice giant Neptune but nearly 10 times heavier—meaning it is denser than steel.“It's impossible for a planet like this to have formed by classical…

An amusing rendition of the TOI-1136 system if each body in the system were a duck or duckling. Credit: Rae Holcomb/UCISix-exoplanet system offers glimpse into planet formation and evolution.With an arsenal of advanced technology, scientists have found a multi-planet star system that provides a rare insight into the way planets form and behave around a young star.TOI-1136 is a dwarf star in the Milky Way galaxy more than 270 light-years from Earth, which is considered nearby, as the Milky Way is 100,000 light years in…