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Both versions of Howl’s Moving Castle— Diana Wynne Jones ’ novel and director Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature film of the same name—tell the story of Sophie Hatter, a young woman whose fate as a future hatmaker is all but decided for...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
DirecTV has officially spun out from under AT&T, cementing a separation that was first announced in February and clearing a path forward for the satellite television company to absorb all of AT&T’s streaming assets. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Two spacecraft will fly past either side of Venus next week in the span of just 33 hours. The rare double flyby gives researchers an opportunity to observe the planet from multiple vantage points at nearly the same time. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Well, it’s finally infrastructure week and not a moment too soon. On Sunday, Colorado’s crucial east-west artery of I-70 shut down indefinitely “due to extreme damage from the latest round of flooding” to hit the state. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Some bird species regularly pluck hair off unsuspecting animals, including humans, to make linings for their nests, scientists say. In a recent study, they detail the hair theft phenomenon, citing numerous YouTube videos that capture...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
A series of cyberattacks has disrupted COVID-19 vaccinations in Italy’s Lazio region—a large area that encompasses the nation’s capital, Rome. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Sony Pictures and cinema tech firm CJ 4DPlex are joining forces to unleash an unholy terror upon moviegoers this September: a Venom sequel but in the 270-degree ScreenX format. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Nine Days is kind of like Pixar’s Soul with a Sundance vibe, which is fitting since it premiered at Sundance in 2020 . It’s just now being released though and this blend of fantasy and fate was well worth the wait. Read more...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider-b (LHCb) experiment presented its latest discovery last week at a meeting of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics. Meet the double-charm tetraquark, the longest-lived exotic matter...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Siberia is a famously cold place. But since May , it’s been extremely hot and extremely on fire . Those wildfires are so extreme that they’ve sent smoke streaming to the North Pole, and the plume is expected to reach Canada later this...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
In a bid to crack down on organized retail crime, Home Depot is piloting a program where power tools must be activated via Bluetooth at checkout—or they won’t work. It’s a clever solution to deter theft, but it also highlights how...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Last month, members of Donald Trump’s insufferable inner circle launched GETTR , a half-assed and poorly built Facebook/Twitter clone that previously seemed to mostly serve as a vanity project for a far-right, fugitive Chinese...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Frodo’s journey to Mordor was a long and dire one and so too will the journey be to the next Lord of the Rings story. Filming on the first season of Amazon’s upcoming, ultra expensive, new show finished in New Zealand Monday and, to...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Zoom—the video conferencing software that many of us have come to begrudgingly rely on in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic—agreed on Saturday to pay $85 million to settle a class-action suit brought on by the numerous privacy and...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
A massive Disney blockbuster starring the biggest star in the world is the number one film at the box office. This much is to be expected. But coming a week after another megastar sued Disney over their similarly successful film, there...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Researchers probing the bellies of marine sea turtles from two oceans found an overwhelming amount of plastic in the reptiles’ stomachs. Performing autopsies on stranded and bycaught specimens of five different species of sea turtles,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
Marine protected areas in the English channel are still at risk from fishing activities, finds Adam Vaughan as he visits one on board a Greenpeace vesselMonday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Ikea continues to take the invisible approach to its smart home gadgets by camouflaging them as other things . Its new Starkvind smart air purifier is available in two versions, but the better of the pair is cleverly disguised as a small...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
We have a little more than a week until Samsung Unpacked , but that hasn’t stopped leakers from sharing images showing what the Korean tech giant has planned for the event. New pictures have surfaced that offer an even clearer look at...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Unlike the rest of Marvel’s newer streaming shows which, at first, all appeared to be self-contained character studies, the upcoming What If uses the universe-altering events of Loki to springboard into a cavalcade of stories set all...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
The CDC is investigating an ongoing multistate outbreak of E. coli that’s sickened more than a dozen people and left several hospitalized. Though no source has been identified for certain yet, the cases appear to be traced back to...Monday, August 2, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
Tokyo is seeing a record-breaking rise in covid-19 cases as thousands of athletes and coaches fly in from around the world for the postponed 2020 Olympic gamesMonday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy lineup took about five years to really hit their stride. Now with five smartphones of its own in the books, Google is gearing up for some major changes that could propel the Pixel lineup to mainstream...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
A long time ago a digital pet called the Tamagotchi took the world by storm. Twenty-five years later it’s still around, but now in competition with tablets and smartphones. So how do you make a near antique technology still worthy of...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in on Greenland. Let’s see what’s... oh, oh no. The ice sheet covering the island went into a major meltdown last week, and it’s ongoing as we speak. Enough ice melted in one single day to cover...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
When Intel released Thunderbolt 4 last year as a successor to Thunderbolt 3, many people were confused and disappointed to realize that the update offered the same 40Gbps bandwidth as its predecessor. Now, Intel is stepping up with the...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Earther
Graphing calculators have always been a fun way to get started with programming, though mostly in the form of games and cheat sheets. But now Texas Instruments is introducing a new TI-84 graphing calculator that supports programming in...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Companies have a rare moment to reset working models. But climate calculations of remote v office work are complex Stacy Kauk was finalizing Shopify’s 2019 sustainability report when the pandemic forced the company into remote work. “I...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Conservation International Blog
In case you missed it: Many species may use starlight to navigate, clouds are likely to accelerate global warming over time and eliminating carbon emissions by 2050 could save more than 74 million people from heat-related deaths.Monday, August 2, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
A DOG who was bought to help herd sheep at a farm had his career cut short after it was discovered he has 16 allergies - including sheep wool.Monday, August 2, 2021 from The Revelator
Most of the world’s countries support these global agreements on conservation and pollution, but the United States is noticeably absent. The post 4 Major Environmental Treaties the U.S. Never Ratified — But Should appeared first on The...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Authorities in Henan province more than triple the confirmed number of people killed in disaster Chinese authorities have raised the official death toll in last month’s devastating Henan floods to 302, with at least 50 still missing. The...Monday, August 2, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
When black holes are born with magnetic fields, simulations show they shed those fields quickly, in accordance with the predictions of the no-hair theoremMonday, August 2, 2021 from Grist
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers.Monday, August 2, 2021 from Grist
The exhibit centers on technologies that oil and gas companies say will allow them to keep selling fossil fuels.Monday, August 2, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
Old, directed by The Sixth Sense’s M. Night Shyamalan, is a stylish sci-fi horror film about a group of tourists stranded on a beach who age at an accelerated rateMonday, August 2, 2021 from Grist
The move follows consumption advisories for the "forever chemicals" in several states.Meet the crossword setter, plant scientist Soup: ‘A successful clue needs pith and, ideally, humour’
Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
The latest in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers. Under the spotlight this time is the insect pollination expert Hamish Symington, AKA Soup The Guardian’s newest cryptic setter , Soup , has been setting puzzles in this...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
ExxonMobil and Suncor face lawsuits in the western state but big oil’s apologists say the US consumer is to blame for emissions More than a decade after the Fourmile Canyon blaze drove even the firefighters out of Gold Hill, blackened...Today it’s cool, tomorrow it’s junk. We have to act against our throwaway culture | Jonathan Chapman
Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
We need products we can repair, reuse and recycle – not ones deliberately built to become obsolete Never have we wanted, owned and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological...Monday, August 2, 2021 from New Scientist - Climate Change
People who live in dense urban areas, particularly those with closely packed apartments, are more likely to experience loneliness and isolation, a large-scale study of UK cities has foundMonday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
A resurgence in the traditional drink is offering rural communities independence and a sustainable alternative to industrial soy and cattle farming Four men emerge from the intense heat and steam of the barbacuá into the cold winter’s...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
A RESCUE dog has received a lucky chance for the thirteenth time after a couple agreed to adopt what has been described 'the most difficult' canine.Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Scientists, ecologists and artists have collaborated to showcase global work to protect seeds in an exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & art gallery (Ramm) in Exeter. Seedscapes: future-proofing nature runs until 5...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Lemon, blacktip, bonnethead and nurse sharks retreat from sea as state struggles to contain pollution problem Florida red tide: is fertilizer plant spill making it worse? Hundreds of coastal sharks have taken refuge in a Florida canal,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
These fragile ecosystems are where the impacts of the climate crisis are often felt first, say experts The Ebro delta appears to be in robust health, to a casual observer. There is water gurgling in the canals and irrigation channels,...Monday, August 2, 2021 from Environment | The Guardian
Researchers find fragments in innards of species that have adapted to develop in open ocean, which has highly polluted areas Young marine turtles are swallowing large quantities of plastic, with ocean pollution changing habitats that...Sunday, August 1, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
Farmers will today be given more cash support to join the war on water and air pollution.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
The Daily Express's Green Britain Needs You campaign is "leading the way" for positive change, says Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.Sunday, August 1, 2021 from Daily Express :: Nature Feed
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