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In the golden age of California’s movie palaces, these expansive theaters – with their fine art deco interiors, towering facades and flashing marquees – were designed to make guests feel like royalty. Thousands dressed up to go to the movies during the 1930s, often multiple times a week, lining up around the block to see the latest pictures. The theaters were temples, made to feel eternal – proof that cinema was the height of entertainment, and always would be. But, of course, it wasn’t. Over 100 years, many of the most…

Pollen and chemical proxies for landscape and environmental change 1159 to 2011 CE when the ice core was extracted, marking transitions through the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Little Ice Age (LIA) and Industrial Revolution. Spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCP) are indicative of fossil fuel burning, while black carbon and ammonium suggest biomass burning of trees through human activities and/or forest fires. The purple dashed line indicates the point…

BLUFF, Utah —  In February 2020, Dave Herrero drove into the canyon country here in southeast Utah to visit a slice of land that was up for sale — a 320-acre ranch that stretched deep into the red-rock canyon near the small town of Bluff.“Just hop the fence and walk down the drive,” a local rock climber had told him. “You’ll see some stuff.Herrero and his girlfriend did just that, pushing through salt brush to make their way into a rocky alcove. Amid freezing rain, it took a few seconds for his eyes to adjust.…

by Tilo Arnhold, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V. The impacts of reduced pollution on snow brightening in the Himalayas and reduced surface water runoff, as observed during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period. Credit: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2023). DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-10439-2023 Reducing air pollution to levels similar to those during the coronavirus pandemic…

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The iPhone has a hidden feature that lets you preserve your voice forever. You just need to read a few inquiries for 15 minutes, and you’ll always be able to hear your voice the way it was at that moment. While for some tech people this function could be fun to have, some people lose, for various reasons, the ability to speak.With that in mind, Apple introduced Personal Voice. This feature was first teased prior to WWDC 2023, but ultimately, it was an iOS 17 function. Apple says this feature was made to assist…

In late September 2020, a series of photos started spreading on Twitter, showing what looked like at least 1,000 mail-in ballots sitting in dumpsters in Sonoma County, California. The photos, which were being interpreted online as clear evidence of election fraud, caught the attention of misinformation researchers at the University of Washington, who quickly put in a call to Sonoma County election officials. The photos, they found out, actually showed empty mail-in ballots from 2018, which were being disposed of in…

UMass Amherst geosciences professor Isaac Larsen standing on the erosional escarpment at Stinson Prairie, Iowa. Credit: UMass AmherstNew research from UMass Amherst shows that the rapid and unsustainable rate of topsoil erosion can be drastically reduced with no-till agricultural methods already in practice.The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines, is still 25…

A legendary Silicon Valley tech leader who bought a vast ranch in Carmel Valley 40 years ago is selling the property to a conservation group to become a new public preserve and cultural site. In 1977, Mike Markkula gave two unknown, shaggy-haired computer programmers, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, $250,000 to help turn their young partnership into a new company. He become the third employee at Apple, served as its CEO and chairman of the board, and at one time owned 26% of the company. Markkula, an engineer who had worked…

Volunteers Emmanuel Durand, left, and Serhii Revenko set up a high-tech scanner at the All Saints Church at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 11, 2023. Using high-tech laser gear, a United Nations-backed team is scanning Ukraine historical sites to preserve them amid Russia's war on the country. Credit: AP Photo/Jon Gambrell Under the plaintive painted eyes of the holy, a volunteer team of two United…