The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, scientists announced they were confident the wreck was Industry, which was built in 1815 and capsized in a storm on May 26, 1836. Its rediscovery – and the …
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First we buy a gadget. For the next few years, the manufacturer releases an occasional software update that fixes bugs and protects us from vulnerabilities. One day, those updates stop coming. According to conventional wisdom, that’s the time to buy a new device. But what if it isn’t? The truth is, upgrades needn’t be so …
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The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, scientists announced they were confident the wreck was Industry, which was built in 1815 and capsized in a storm on May 26, 1836. Its rediscovery – and the …
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Now, baseball fans can dream again. Even with all the terrible things going on around the world, fans of all 30 teams have the annual March diversion of dreaming: free agents actually worth the money, franchise pitchers staying healthy, the promised brilliance of the latest “pheenom” (to speak with Casey Stengel’s vocabulary). Once there was …
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Dennis P. Sullivan, a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and the City University of New York Graduate Center, is the winner of this year’s Abel Prize – the equivalent of a Nobel in mathematics. In its citation, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the organization that administers the Abel, said Dr. Sullivan …
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COLUMBIA, SC – It is hard to escape Cocky the Gamecock at the University of South Carolina. The mascot’s statue stands prominently on the quad, and its garnet feathers are displayed on doors and banners across campus. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Colonial Life Arena, home to the top women’s basketball team in …
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In 2020 Ujwal Chaudhary, a biomedical engineer then at the University of Tübingen and the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, watched his computer with amazement as an experiment that he had spent years on revealed itself. A 34-year-old paralyzed man lay on his back in the laboratory, his head connected by a …
Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate Read More »
Along a dirt-covered road deep in Texas farm country, the cryptocurrency company Argo Blockchain is building a power plant for the internet age: a crypto “mining” site stocked with computers that generate new Bitcoins. But unlike other Bitcoin mining operations, which consume large quantities of fossil fuels and produce carbon emissions, Argo claims it’s trying …
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JOHANNESBURG – A plan to build African headquarters for the tech giant Amazon in Cape Town is in peril after a judge on Friday ordered construction to stop, arguing that the developers had not properly consulted Indigenous South Africans. The $ 300 million development had fueled a nasty feud within Indigenous, or First Nations, communities …
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Cleveland Browns, he’s your problem now. You courted Deshaun Watson, took him in and handed him the fattest guaranteed contract in NFL history, despite his tarnished reputation and the many women who have accused him of sexual misconduct during massage sessions. Now, for all of his sublime talents at quarterback, you must also deal with …
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