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Massive fan-shaped structure found hidden beneath East Antarctica

Massive fan-shaped structure found hidden beneath East Antarctica

Published by Jenni Sidey

Three kilometers of ice can hide a lot, but not forever. Beneath East Antarctica, researchers have identified a continent-scale geological structure that ties together some of the region’s best-known buried basins into a single sprawling system, one that may reshape how scientists think about the continent’s deep past and its icy present. The newly named East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province stretches from Prydz Bay to the Transantarctic Mountains and from the coast deep into the continent, reaching toward 85° south. It includes the Wilkes and Aurora basins, along with the basin that hosts Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake on Earth. These features were already familiar on their own. What had not been recognized before was that they form one coherent structure. The team at Durham University argues that this buried landscape resembles a handheld fan at a semi-continental scale. Its long basins radiate outward, and its geometry appears to converge near a pivot point close to the South Pole. In the researchers’ interpretation, that pattern points to a powerful tectonic process rather than …

What did T. rex’s breath smell like?

What did T. rex’s breath smell like?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Imagine the world millions of years ago. You’re in forest clearing bordered by tall conifers. Suddenly, the trees part and a Tyrannosaurus rex stomps into view. As it gets closer, the air fills with the smell of fear. And the smell of T. rex. It’s pretty pungent. But what exactly did T. rex’s breath smell like? Experts reckon it wasn’t pleasant.  In 2018, the Field Museum in Chicago opened a new exhibit centered around Sue, a 13-foot-tall, 40-foot-long T. rex fossil. Sue is one of the most complete T. rex fossils ever found, and Ben Miller, an exhibition developer at the museum, wanted to make Sue’s exhibit as immersive as possible by stimulating visitors’ senses, including their sense of smell.  “Everybody knows what …

Can 1,000 people have a meaningful conversation? AI may make it possible.

Can 1,000 people have a meaningful conversation? AI may make it possible.

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the modern world, the sheer scale of human organizations has become overwhelming. The average Fortune 1000 company employs more than 30,000 people, with functional teams often numbering in the hundreds. Government and defense organizations are even larger. Yet, despite the common refrain that an organization’s most valuable asset is the intelligence and creativity of its people, we currently lack the ability to enable teams of even a dozen people to hold thoughtful, productive conversations. Instead, we rely on message-passing within rigid hierarchies, with insight and reasoning lost at each layer. We can also use polls and surveys to capture input at scale, but this strips away the nuance of human wisdom and eliminates the key element of group conversation: interactive deliberation. The value of a real-time discussion is that individuals can build on others’ ideas by debating options, offering new evidence, and converging on solutions that would not have emerged from any one person alone.  Even worse than polls or message-passing, a new trend is to use AI to capture input from individuals through …

15 standout products from High-End Vienna, the yearly showcase of glorious audiophile indulgence

15 standout products from High-End Vienna, the yearly showcase of glorious audiophile indulgence

Published by Jenni Sidey

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. High-End Vienna is a showcase for luxury finishes and second-mortgage price tags. The 2026 edition took place June 4-7, and featured plenty of six-figure sticker shock and sci-fi designs. But beyond the design-forward statement pieces is some actually approachable gear, as well. We’ve sifted through dozens of press releases to identify where smarter systems are headed and to celebrate old-school hi-fi brands making their heritage feel fresh, presenting all of it as a gallery of beautiful excess. The fifth generation of the Diamond Dome tweeter-topped 800 Series, Bowers & Wilkins’ latest flagship speakers celebrate the brand’s 60th anniversary. As important as the sound it produces is the resonance it …

A Pilates instructor says this is the one exercise she recommends to people who want to build core strength and improve their hip mobility

A Pilates instructor says this is the one exercise she recommends to people who want to build core strength and improve their hip mobility

Published by Jenni Sidey

Pilates has evolved into a myriad of different styles and approaches, but Pilates’ origins were simpler, with just 34 movements created by its founder and namesake, Joseph Pilates. According to Rebecca Daodun, Pilates instructor and founder of Pilates Prescription, there’s one move from the original set, published in the 1945 book Joseph Pilates co-authored, Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, that she always recommends to clients. “Pilates leg circles are a full-body move from the classical repertoire that requires you to move your leg in a circular movement without moving your trunk,” she tells Fit&Well. “The work is in maintaining stillness through your body. Latest Videos From “You are strengthening your hip flexors and leg muscles, but your whole body should be working to stabilize. Your core muscles stabilize your body, the stable leg supports the active leg and pressing into the mat with the backs of the arms should help anchor your body down.” How to do Pilates leg circles Pilates Exercises – One Leg Circle – YouTube Watch On Lie on your back …

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

Backcasting: Why and How the Past and Present Drive the Future

Published by Jenni Sidey

Backcasting is one of several methods futurists use to understand possible futures. Futurists, of course, cannot “tell the future,” but they work hard to offer realistic scenarios for others to aim for and work toward in their respective lives and/or lines of work. And, if enough people work towards a particular scenario, the likelihood of it being fulfilled will of course be bigger. This method differs from two other more commonly used futures studies methods, namely “forecasting” and “foresight.” Forecasting is what most corporate executives use when they want to engage in longer-term planning. It is a fairly simple method of extrapolation, using historical and present-day data to draw a curve in a diagram and then extrapolate it according to the planning period in question, whether it be a quarter, a year, or two to three years. Nevertheless, in this kind of fairly basic analysis, one must also take known and/or assumed influences into consideration, such as short-term economic, demographic, or climatic changes, expected technological developments, new competitors entering, or existing ones leaving one’s market …

Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early

Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early

Published by Jenni Sidey

A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out new stars at a furious pace, it is also blasting away the cold gas that makes those stars possible. This is a self-defeating process that may help explain why so many big galaxies died young. The system, called CRISTAL-02, appears just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. This is a time when astronomers did not expect to find large numbers of massive, quiescent galaxies. Those are galaxies that had already stopped forming stars. Yet the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed many of them. Their existence has become one of the biggest puzzles in modern astrophysics. Now a team led by Dr Rebecca Davies of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne says CRISTAL-02 offers a simpler answer than some of the more exotic ideas proposed in recent years. Rather than needing changes to dark energy or some other revision to cosmic history, the evidence points to a violent but familiar process. In this process galaxies collide, …

People Who Stopped Posting On Social Media But Still Check It Every Day Usually Have 10 Rare Traits

People Who Stopped Posting On Social Media But Still Check It Every Day Usually Have 10 Rare Traits

Published by Jenni Sidey

While social media offers people a way to connect with friends and family, and even networking in their career, it’s pretty evident that using it isn’t great for us. Not only does it increase the risk of mental health symptoms and poor well-being, but it makes people compare themselves with others, creating a feeling of isolation and rejection. For some, they choose to delete their apps altogether and take a break, but curiosity often gets the best of them. People who stopped posting on social media but still check it every day usually have rare traits that keep bringing them back to these all-consuming platforms. However, they understand the issues and don’t make it a lasting habit. People who stopped posting on social media but still check it every day usually have 10 rare traits  1. They prefer observing over broadcasting pics five | Shutterstock Posting on social media used to be fun, whether it was updating your friends or reposting memes. But life has changed drastically over the years, and with the world filled …

Merkel Receives The First European Order Of Merit Award, Repeats Call For Crackdown On Free Speech

Merkel Receives The First European Order Of Merit Award, Repeats Call For Crackdown On Free Speech

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jonathan Turley, The European Union recently announced the first recipients of its new European Order of Merit, the organization’s highest award. The headliner was Angela Merkel, former Federal Chancellor of Germany, who indeed personifies the European Union for both her fans and her critics. For many years, some of us have criticized Merkel as one of the leading forces behind European censorship efforts that have eviscerated the “Indispensable Right.”  Not surprisingly, Merkel called for more censorship and attacks on free speech to a thrilled audience of EU bureaucrats and globalists. In one of the most ironic moments, Merkel declared, “Europe was not handed to us. It was built treaty by treaty, crisis by crisis and by people who chose solidarity over division and cooperation over self-interest.” Indeed, it was not handed to them. As I discuss in my new book, “Rage and the Republic, the EU was formed by design to incrementally get citizens in Europe to give up their national identities and rights: The EEC worked to remove barriers to trade and coordinate national regulations to achieve …

Move over, giant meteor. Here’s what the largest comet would do to Earth

Move over, giant meteor. Here’s what the largest comet would do to Earth

Published by Jenni Sidey

Out there, in the farthest recesses of the Solar System, a great existential threat lies in wait: the Oort cloud. Formed at the same time as the protostar that would become our Sun and the protoplanetary disk that would give rise to the planets, asteroids, and moons, it largely consists of the remnants of that same primitive material. Whatever wasn’t either boiled off by the Sun or locked up into the planetary, lunar, asteroidal, or Kuiper belt objects we have today persisted in series of objects, ranging from tiny to planet-sized, in a spheroidal cloud. The closest Oort cloud objects might “only” originate from a thousand times the Earth-Sun distance, but the full extent of this cloud reaches up to one or two light-years away. Today, these bodies, mostly a mix of ice-and-rock, remain in slow, quasi-stable orbits in the deepest recesses of our Solar System. But every once in a while, a chance gravitational encounter will perturb the orbit of one of those objects, and either eject it from the cloud into interstellar space …