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By Jarrett Renshaw The Biden administration on Friday added $4 billion to a supplemental funding request to Congress
2023-09-02 00:28

The Best Amazon-Branded Device Deals Ahead of Prime Day
Prime Day is July 11 to 12 this year, which gives us just about three
2023-06-22 05:24

Kerry challenges oil industry to prove its promised tech rescue for climate-wrecking emissions
Oil and gas producers talk up technological breakthroughs they say will soon allow the world to drill and burn fossil fuels without worsening global warming
2023-05-14 19:54

West Point sued over using race as an admissions factor in the wake of landmark Supreme Court ruling
West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions
2023-09-20 05:26

Saturn’s rings are disappearing and could be gone relatively soon
Saturn’s rings might disappear pretty soon astronomically speaking, according to new research. A new analysis of data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission, which orbited the planet between 2004 and 2017, has revealed new insights into when the seven rings were formed and how long they might last. During Cassini’s Grand Finale, when the spacecraft completed 22 orbits in which it passed between Saturn and its rings, the researchers observed that the rings were losing many tons of mass per second, which means the rings will only be around another few hundred million years at most. “We have shown that massive rings like Saturn’s do not last long,” said Paul Estrada, research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, and a coauthor of the studies, in a statement. “One can speculate that the relatively puny rings around the other ice and gas giants in our solar system are leftover remnants of rings that were once massive like Saturn’s. Maybe some time in the not-so-distant future, astronomically speaking, after Saturn’s rings are ground down, they will look more like the sparse rings of Uranus.” Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Saturn’s rings are made mostly of ice but have a small amount of rocky dust created by broken asteroid fragments and micrometeoroids colliding with the rings. The research also found that the rings appeared long after Saturn’s initial formation, and were still forming when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. “Our inescapable conclusion is that Saturn’s rings must be relatively young by astronomical standards, just a few hundred million years old,” said Richard Durisen, professor emeritus of astronomy at Indiana University Bloomington and lead author of the studies in a statement. “If you look at Saturn’s satellite system, there are other hints that something dramatic happened there in the last few hundred million years. If Saturn’s rings are not as old as the planet, that means something happened in order to form their incredible structure, and that is very exciting to study.” Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-05-26 00:19

Nextracker and Asteelflash/USI Open New Electronics Manufacturing Line for U.S. Solar Power Plants
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 8, 2023--
2023-08-08 21:22

US tightens crackdown on crypto with lawsuits against Coinbase, Binance
By Jonathan Stempel, Hannah Lang and John McCrank NEW YORK The top U.S. securities regulator sued cryptocurrency platform
2023-06-07 09:46

New IAM Research by Stack Identity Finds Machine Identities Dominate Shadow Access in the Cloud, Revealing Easy Attack Vector for Hackers
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 8, 2023--
2023-08-08 19:22

Affirmative action for white people? Legacy college admissions come under renewed scrutiny
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni
2023-07-01 12:18

MrBeast: Here's who won YouTuber's $13K Instagram birthday giveaway
MrBeast is known for helping people around him with prize giveaways
2023-05-12 13:55

NYC Continues to Breathe Canada’s Wildfire Smoke: Weather Watch
New York City and the US Northeast face another day of eerie orange skies and choking smoke from
2023-06-07 19:54

Twitch streamers Pokimane, HasanAbi, and Kai Cenat face attacks from view-bots, Nmplol raises concerns
'Whoever is botting these guys, you're a piece of s**t in real life,' EsfandTV said after Nmplol shed light on the situation
2023-06-29 17:50
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