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Groundwater extraction and redistribution by humans caused the Earth’s rotational pole to shift nearly a meter in two decades (1993-2010), contributing to a sea level rise, reveals a study in Geophysical Research Letters. The most water redistribution occurred in western North America and northwestern India, and efforts to reduce groundwater depletion in such areas could theoretically affect this shift. The phenomenon doesn’t risk shifting seasons but could impact climate over geological time scales.The shifting of mass…

Here, the researchers compare the observed polar motion (red arrow, “OBS”) to the modeling results without (dashed blue arrow) and with (solid blue arrow) groundwater mass redistribution. The model with groundwater mass redistribution is a much better match for the observed polar motion, telling the researchers the magnitude and direction of groundwater's influence on the Earth's spin. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2023). DOI:…

The week started with a bang as Twitter’s iconic bird got the boot and was replaced by a bad cut-out icon of a Shiba Inu — the face of Dogecoin! With all the attention on joke coin top dog, what will happen to its rival, self-proclaimed “Dogecoin killer,” Shiba Inu? The Twitter logo-changing couldn’t come at a more perfect time as Big Eyes Coin just announced its wrapping up of presale on June 3rd! It’s also giving investors the chance to score some seriously cool loot cards on the NFT marketplace OpenSea. Read on to…

New York Times: PitchBook: in 2022, investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals, almost as much as the investment in the previous five years combined — An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text … New York Times: PitchBook: in 2022, investors pumped $1.37B+ into generative AI companies across 78 deals, almost as much as the investment in the previous five years combined …

Deadpool 3: Did Hugh Jackman Just Teased Fans About Wolverine’s Unique Character Arc In The Film?(Photo Credit –Poster From Movie) Marvel Studio’s film Deadpool 3 is one of the much-awaited films that will bring together Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson. Interestingly, the film will serve both as an ending and a start of a new chapter for the title character. The Australian actor’s return as the X-Men character for the first time since 2017’s Logan is one of the most anticipated films from the…

After delivering the time-twisty Tenet to the moviegoing public to 2020, Christopher Nolan is back to covering World War II following his previous exploration of the conflict in Dunkirk. This time around, the filmmaker is chronicling the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who’s been credited as “the father of the atomic bomb,” with Cillian Murphy playing the theoretical physicist. There’s still over half a year to go until Oppenheimer comes out, but Nolan seems pumped about the 2023 movie release and talked about the “big…

Warner Bros. It seems that Warner Bros Discovery is doing whatever it takes to make the DCU work after the company announced that it has a “10-year plan” for the franchise. And with the announcement of Suicide Squad‘s James Gunn and Peter Safran taking the reins of the superhero franchise, fans are excited to see what the two have in store for the future of DC. The Hollywood Reporter reported that Gunn and Safran announced that they’ve begun work on the DCU’s long-term plan. Gunn told the press that he and…

Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt are about to travel back in Hollywood history, again. The two previously worked together on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now, these two and a fun ensemble cast are traveling further back to the 1920s in the film Babylon. While this reunion of two of the best actors working right now is thrilling, there are other reasons to get excited for Babylon. From the stellar ensemble cast to the scale and scope of this project, it’s bound to be an unforgettable experience.  After…

A lot of the focus of the new Netflix film The Gray Man has been on the directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, or on the male leads, Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling. So that it might be easy to not even realize that the movie also co-stars the great Ana de Armas. Following on her scene-stealing turn in No Time to Die, de Armas is back doing some incredible action, and based on these behind-the-scenes clips, we’re ready for her to take center stage in John Wick spinoff Ballerina.Ana de Armas has shown recently that she can hold…