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The Sundance Film Festival is online in 2022. It's great for people who want to relax in the comfort of their own home and watch independent films but not so much for the thousand who go to Utah and the SFF to network. "Life is an Independent Film."

Study Finds Protein Structures That Could Be Responsible For The Origins of Life -   Science Alert - January 19, 2022

This makes no sense. With everything going on in the world they left the clock as it was in 2020 & 2021. We live in a whole new world and this should reflect the dangers.

In view of this mixed threat environment - with some positive developments counteracted by worrisome and accelerating negative trends - the members of the Science and Security Board find the world to be no safer than it was last year at this time and therefore decide to set the Doomsday Clock once again at 100 seconds to midnight. This decision does not, by any means, suggest that the international security situation has stabilized. On the contrary, the Clock remains the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse because the world remains stuck in an extremely dangerous moment. Read more

A68: 'Megaberg' dumped huge volume of fresh water. How a colossal block of ice became an obsession

The Tonga Volcanic Eruption Was So Powerful It Sent Ripples Out Into Space

Earth's Insides Are Cooling Faster Than We Thought, And It Will Mess Things Up

Humans are adapting to climate change, but not quickly enough, according to new research

The 6th Mass Extinction Really Has Begun, Scientists Warn

Understanding rare rain events in the driest desert on Earth - Atacama Desert in northern Chile

Understanding rare rain events in the driest desert on Earth - Atacama Desert in northern Chile

Why did ocean productivity decline abruptly 4.6 million years ago?

Mythologized, memorialized then forgotten: A history of Australia's bushfire reporting

James Webb notches another milestone! NASA's $10 billion space telescope successfully deploys all of its mirrors, 850,000 miles into its one-million-mile journey through space

40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe, new study finds

NASA's Curiosity Rover Drilled Holes Into Mars, And Found Something Very Strange - An unusual mix of the chemical element that could hypothetically point to the existence of alien life

Curiosity rover finds 'tantalizing' signs of ancient Mars life

Astronomers Have Identified a New Kind of Supernova We Never Knew Existed

Study finds that black hole inner horizons can be charged or discharged

Astronomers propose building a neutrino telescope - out of the Pacific Ocean

The Flame Nebula Blazes Like a Cosmic Bonfire in Stunning New Image

A New Study Calculates The Number of Black Holes in The Universe. It's a Lot

Scientists transplant two gene-edited pig kidneys into human recipient

Scientists Identify Specific Gene Variant That Protects Against Severe COVID-19

Genetic risk factor found for Covid-19 smell and taste loss, researchers say

The quantum field theory on which the everyday world supervenes

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway network in Saudi Arabia lined with well-preserved ancient tombs.

A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analyzed the orientation of ancient Japanese tombs - the so-called Kofun. The results show that these tombs are oriented towards the arc of the rising sun, the Goddess Amaterasu that the Japanese emperors linked to the mythical origin of their dynasty

Oldest known drinking straws identified

Winter Storm Izzy left no traces in Brooklyn with more storm brewing. I wish I could say the same for the rest of the people who suffered through another major climate event. I ventured out today because I love cold weather - quick pic in front of the supermarket. The shelves were well-stocked.