Green Power Surge: Tokyo’s Breakthrough in Cobalt-Free Battery Tech
By replacing problematic and scarce cobalt with safer and more abundant elements, the researchers mitigate some issues with current batteries. As an extra bonus, the new battery chemistry leads to greater energy density for an equivalent weight and volume of battery, which could be very useful in applications such as electric cars.
https://scitechdaily.com/green-power-surge-tokyos-breakthrough-in-cobalt-free-battery-tech/ #Battery #Technology #LithiumIon #Tokyo #Cobalt #alternative #Mn #Ni
You Won’t Hear Much About the Next Chapter of Space Travel
Space tourism is getting less transparent, and more like traveling by private jet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/space-travel-tourism-virgin-galactic-spacex-blue-origin/675694/?utm_source=feed #space #travel #tourism publicity #VirginGalactic
Feds seize 17 web domains used by North Korean tech workers in fraud scheme
The U.S. government seized website domains that North Korean tech workers were using for a scheme to defraud American and foreign businesses, evade sanctions and support Pyongyang’s weapons program, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
https://therecord.media/doj-seizure-web-domains-north-korean-tech-worker-scheme #web #domains #seized #NorthKorean #tech #workers #fraud #scheme
Why Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth Endures
Even though we know better.
This 1962 cover of Official Detective features a Halloween candy poisoner at work.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/halloween-poison-candy #halloween #poison #myth #HeHeHe #BwaHaHa
Ancient New Year's scene from Egypt uncovered on roof of 2,200-year-old temple
Researchers restored an ancient painting of the gods depicted at New Year's during restoration work at the Temple of Esna in Egypt.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/ancient-new-years-scene-from-egypt-uncovered-on-roof-of-2200-year-old-temple #Newyears #scene #egypt #restoration #WildNight #shouldabeenthere
Human Rights Watch said it had verified four other videos from the attacks in Israel and is investigating these and other attacks as war crimes. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/18/israel/palestine-videos-hamas-led-attacks-verified#:~:text=On%20the%20morning%20of%20October,children%2C%20according%20to%20Israeli%20officials.
I wrote about my first two months on Mastodon. I was a Mastodon hater because I thought it would be weird, complicated, or dead. It's been none of those things.
I'm ashamed I didn't join earlier and I'm ashamed I haven't been telling people to join it, because it's a version of the internet and social media I've long advocated for with my reporting: decentralized, portable, user controlled, not corporate:
Did Fugitive Black Slaves Use Secret Codes in Quilts on the Underground Railroad?
Whitewashed romanticization of escape or unacknowledged oral history?
https://www.snopes.com/articles/465428/slaves-quilts-secret-codes/ #quilts #undergoundRailroad #codes #whitewash #OralHistory
YouTube Invests in an ‘Authoritative’ Multi-Format News Experience
YouTube wants its users to be able to find news more easily from “authoritative sources across video on demand, live streams, podcasts, and Shorts.”
https://petapixel.com/2023/10/18/youtube-invests-in-an-authoritative-multi-format-news-experience/#YouTube #news #authoritative sources #immersive #watchpage #experience #mobile #shorts #PeterMax
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability
A neural network can identify references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims, and scour the web for better sources.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02894-x #AI #wikipedia #reliability #NeuralNetwork #improve #citations
Cova Dones: a major Palaeolithic cave art site in eastern Iberia
The preliminary results reveal a rich graphic assemblage with features that are unusual for Mediterranean Upper Palaeolithic art and were previously unknown for the Pleistocene in the eastern Iberian coast.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/cova-dones-a-major-palaeolithic-cave-art-site-in-eastern-iberia/209249A848B919CE653531CB85856DEC #Mediterranean
#Pleistocene #rockart
engraving #painting #techniques
#StylisticAnalysis ##CaveArt #spain
@didgebaba Imge description:
A doctor says to a man: That's a nasty bug you got there.
The second frame shows a big lady bug on the floor. It says fuck you.
Scientists finally solve mystery of why Europeans have less Neanderthal DNA than East Asians
Modern Europeans have a smaller proportion of Neanderthal genes in their genomes than East Asians do. New research suggests the reason lies at the feet of migrating early farmers.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mystery-of-why-europeans-have-less-neanderthal-dna-than-east-asians-finally-solved #neanderthal #dna #eastasian #european #migration
Stench leads officials to 189 rotting corpses at taxidermist’s funeral home
Authorities on Tuesday reported removing the improperly stored remains of at least 189 people from a southern Colorado funeral home where the owner said he practiced taxidermy.
One family who received ashes aren't sure if they're the cremains of a loved one.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/stench-leads-officials-to-189-rotting-corpses-at-taxidermists-funeral-home/ #stench #rotting #corpses #funeralhome #improperstorage #humanremains
Strange elements unknown to science may lurk in the hearts of asteroids, new study suggests
Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially explain why asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense, new research suggests.
https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/strange-elements-unknown-to-science-may-lurk-in-the-hearts-of-asteroids-new-study-suggests #superheavy #elements #asteroids #CompactUltraDenseObjects
This may be the earliest evidence that Neanderthals hunted cave lions
Conclusions are based on re-analysis of a cave lion skeleton and recently found claws.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/this-may-be-the-earliest-evidence-that-neanderthals-hunted-cave-lions/ #neanderthal #hunt #cavelions #claws #pelt
Scientists Unveil Nature’s Missing Evolutionary Law
In essence, the new ‘law of increasing functional information’ states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not limited to life on Earth, it also occurs in other massively complex systems, from planets and stars to atoms, minerals, and more.
https://www.sci.news/physics/law-of-increasing-functional-information-12369.html #evolution #law #information #complexity
Did Ancient Egyptians Know Meteorites Came From Space?
Hieroglyphic texts suggest they understood the rocks, which contained valuable iron, did not originate on Earth
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-hieroglyphic-texts-reveal-that-ancient-egyptians-knew-meteorites-came-from-the-sky-180983039/ #ancient #egyptians #meteorites #space #iron #Gerzeh #dagger
Scientists Reconstruct Skull of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is an extinct species of great ape that lived in what is now Europe about 12 million years ago. A remarkably complete, although partially distorted, skull and an associated skeleton of the primate was discovered in 2002 in Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain.
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pierolapithecus-catalaunicus-skull-12364.html #Pierolapithecuscatalaunicus #skull Reconstruction #spain #paleoanthropology #hominid #evolution
Geologist from Wisconsin at home in Japan.
Always exploring this world.