Some good science news:
A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem
Some good science news:
A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem
Jupiter takes a hit.
The prevailing thinking is that roughly 2 billion years ago, a microbe belonging to a group called the Asgard archaea absorbed a bacterium called an alphaproteobacterium, which settled inside and became mitochondria, producing power for its host by consuming oxygen as fuel. But isolating and growing Asgard archaea has proved a challenge, as they tend to live in inhospitable environments such as deep-sea mud. They also grow very slowly, so they are hard to detect. Most evidence of their existence so far has been fragments of DNA with distinctive sequences.
Not every day that someone solves a 2000-year-old problem. Link
Desperately hanging on by my fingernails to avoid making a political comment.....
Some good science news:
A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem
Le Monde describes the road as "pale with its ragged joints," with "solar panels that peel off the road and the many splinters that enamel resin protecting photovoltaic cells." It's a poor sign for a project that French government invested in to the tune of €5 million, or $5,546,750.
The noise and poor upkeep aren't the only problems facing the Wattway. Through shoddy engineering, the Wattway isn't even generating the electricity it promised to deliver. In 2016, the builders promised it would power 5,000 households.
Remember a few years back the big push in technology was "solar roadways" where cars could drive on solar panels which would power neighboring houses or streetlights? And how a 1-Kilometer stretch of highway in France was going to start that trend? And anyone who had even the slightest clue about highways knew it was going to be a problem?
Yeah, about that.
Oh, no doubt solar tech will improve. But this project might have had more success if it was installed as sidewalk or bike path before jumping fully into highway use. We sent a man in a parabolic arc first before we attempted landing on the moon.Our rockets regularly blew up in the beginning. They got better.
The face of the oldest known Australopithecus species — a relative of the famous "Lucy" — is no longer a mystery.
For the first time, paleontologists have discovered a near-complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis. The fossil, a bony visage with a protruding jaw and large canine teeth, dates back 3.8 million years, indicating that A. anamensis probably overlapped with Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, for at least 100,000 years.