10 years after the extraordinary survival story when a Nigerian cook survived three days in the air pocket of a capsized boat on the ocean floor, he now works as a diver https://t.co/TDAZIGXKJd
Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study. https://t.co/UqWgHd7wBr
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
Thai experts tell @AFP they verified that dozens of shells found outside a shopping mall in Bangkok, placed apparently as decorations by building contractors, are genuine fossil remains of ammonites -- creatures that once thrived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years
Good podcast from @guardian on how the common representation of urgent responses of large groups of people to difficult circumstances as 'panic' misrepresents reality, shifts blame from those responsible for shared infrastructure to those who rely on it https://t.co/7jUJaWVh9a
🚨 Sobre el incendio registrado en aguas del Golfo de México, en la Sonda de Campeche, a unos metros de la plataforma Ku-Charly (dentro del Activo Integral de Producción Ku Maloob Zaap)
Tres barcos han apoyado para sofocar las llamas
“Taking in the whole sweep of Earth’s history,” @PeterBrannen1 writes, “we see how unnatural, nightmarish, and profound our current experiment on the planet really is.” A deep history of climate change: https://t.co/qzxp7J0LyS
"The current speed of human-induced CO2 change & warming is nearly without precedent in entire geological record, w/ only known exception being the instantaneous, meteorite-induced event that caused the extinction of non-bird-like dinosaurs 66 mil yrs ago" https://t.co/wkIhRc6LOb
People in Japan who watched it on NHK (our public broadcaster) had to watch three men shout over each other while three interpreters interpreted over each other simultaneously soooo yes but not really?🤔 https://t.co/1gItayw55f
Recycling plastic doesn’t work.
The makers of plastic – the nation’s largest oil and gas companies – have known that all along, even as they spent millions telling Americans the opposite. @frontlinepbs https://t.co/2sZS9Tqc06