Do we live in a giant void? It could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion: Pablo Carlos Budassi/wikipedia, CC BY-SA One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (?CDM). This …
The Good Mothers: Disney’s groundbreaking drama tries to tell the stories of women in the mafia but important pieces of the puzzle are missing: Disney+ The music accompanying the opening titles of the new Disney+ series The Good Mothers is a lullaby in the Calabrian dialect: Ninna, ninna, ninna, ninna, neda The wolf eats the …
Pluto: ‘recent’ volcanism raises puzzle – how can such a cold body power eruptions?: Simulated image of Pluto's Wright Mons volcano. Nature Communications Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means …
How COVID is affecting school attendance in South Africa: piecing together the puzzle: Miguel Pereira via GettyImages Estimating how many learners have dropped out of school as a consequence of the COVID pandemic is an issue governments across the globe are trying to pin down. The subject has been open to intense debate in South …
South Africa in the news: The puzzle of carbon border fees and a just transition: Yesterday, the European Commission launched its plans for a Carbon Border Adjustment Measure (CBAM), which would charge fees on imports of certain high emissions goods.: “South Africa” – BingNews Clean-up operations start in S. Africa’s Gauteng as calm returns: Clean-up …
The sex organs of baobab flowers may solve the puzzle of trees that bear more fruit: Researchers crack the conundrum about why African Baobab trees in southern Africa differ in terms of fruit production. Sarah Venter Baobabs are the mainstay of rural communities in some parts of Africa – they provide food in the form …
Why clouds are the missing piece in the climate change puzzle: Sam Schooler/Unsplash, CC BY-SA How much our world will warm this century depends on the actions we take in coming decades. In order to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C and avoid dangerous levels of warming, governments need to know how much carbon they …
Antarctic ice shelves: research reveals a missing piece of the climate puzzle: Journeying to one of the most remote parts of the planet to gather valuable ocean data. Provided by author. Ice shelves, massive floating bodies of ice, are well-known for their buffering effect on land-based ice sheets as they slow their flow towards the …
Solve a puzzle at the Linux command line with nudoku: Welcome back to another installment in our 24-day-long Linux command-line toys advent calendar. If this is your first visit to the series, you might be asking yourself what a command-line toy even is. We’re figuring that out as we go, but generally, it could be a game, or any …
Taking the puzzle out of Governance, Risk and Compliance: Guideline BizTech wins award in recognition of its outstanding work in risk management for its RUBiQ initiative Johannesburg, 20 November 2018 – The risk management industry celebrated leaders and innovation in the sector at a gala dinner earlier in November. Coming out tops for the outstanding …
5 open source puzzle games for Linux: Gaming has traditionally been one of Linux’s weak points. That has changed somewhat in recent years thanks to Steam, GOG, and other efforts to bring commercial games to multiple operating systems, but those games are often not open source. Sure, the games can be played on an open …
The big data puzzle: making sense of unstructured data: Lenore Kerrigan: Country Manager, OpenText SA Never before has there been so much information available to businesses and individuals. In January 2015, Google estimated that there were 300 exabytes (that’s 300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world. In 2011, there were just …
Wheel Of Fortune Genius Solves Puzzle With Just One Letter: On a recent show, Santoli solved a bunch of puzzles with only a few letters, and even guessed a 14-letter, three-word phrase with just one letter. Weird News –
Prehistoric puzzle no more: Illinois fossil a vertebrate: This undated reconstruction sketch provided by The Field Museum in Chicago shows what a Tully monster, an oddly configured sea creature. Fossil hunters have been finding samples of Illinois’ state fossil in the Mazon Creek area for decades but no one has ever been able to say …