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Elon Musk claims it's 'highly likely' humans will go to Mars in the next decade

SpaceX boss Elon Musk has revealed when he thinks humans could reach Mars sooner than we thought, after his aerospace firm apparently took one step closer to realising his Martian dream

Daily Mirror

After layoffs, ex-Amazon workers wonder about 'Earth's Best Employer'

When their phone pinged with a meeting reminder in January, one former Amazon employee was confused. The company had let them go four days earlier — yet they were still getting invitations to new meetings.

Tribune News Service

String of powerful solar flares have been knocking out radio signals

Seven flares have been recorded so far this week

Wales Online

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Turkey's lax policing of building codes flagged before quake

Turkey has for years tempted fate by not enforcing modern construction codes while allowing — and in some cases, encouraging — a real estate boom in earthquake-prone areas, experts say

The Independent UK

ISRO Launches SSLV-D2 Rocket Carrying 3 Satellites From Sriharikota

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle - SSLV-D2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Friday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Can clouds of Moon dust combat climate change?

A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of Moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth.

The Conversation

Turkey resorts to mass burials after massive earthquake

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — There is an almost assembly-line quality to the burials in this southern Turkish city near the epicenter of one of the world's deadliest natural disasters in years. The exigencies of mass death have left little other choice since Monday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake transformed the area into a…

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Millions of satellite images reveal how beaches around the Pacific vanish or replenish in El Niño and La Niña years

If you’ve been visiting the same beach for a few summers, you’ll have seen it change. While beaches look static, they’re actually one of the most dynamic regions on Earth. Winds, waves and tides stir and push sand around constantly. Storms can claw out huge volumes of sand and move…

The Conversation

Madonna King: How heartbreaking Turkey earthquake photo reminded me to pause

Big news events now flash by us, from one to the next, leaving a list of heroes and villains. And the bar keeps rising.

The New Daily

Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700 – but most could still be saved

Like so many of the planet’s natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been drained, dug up and built on.

The Conversation

Which planets might actually have life?

How close could aliens be? These are the prospects that meet the specific conditions for life to be possible

Salon

Earthquake in UK as residents report houses shaking and loud rumbling

Measuring 2.6, tremors were reported by communities across Runwell, South Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre

The Independent UK

Why we can't predict earthquakes

Elements of criteria can point towards the possibility of an earthquake but, at best, predictions are good guesses

Salon

500-year-old horn container discovered in South Africa sheds light on pre-colonial Khoisan medicines

In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African hamlet of Misgund in the Eastern Cape unearthed an unusual parcel – a gift to science. The parcel turned out to be a 500-year-old cow horn, capped with a leather lid and carefully wrapped in grass and the leafy scales…

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Al Jazeera

Why is it so hard to predict earthquakes?

These terrifying events raise many questions; here are some answers.

The Independent UK

Earthquake hits Indonesia, killing 4 as restaurant collapses

A shallow earthquake has shaken Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, killing four people who were unable to escape when a floating restaurant collapsed into the sea

Reuters

'The grass does not grow': In Chile's far south, the worst drought in 50 years

In Chile's remote south, the country's gateway to the Antarctic, the worst drought in half a century is hitting cattle ranchers and vegetable farmers, leaving the earth so dry in some areas that grass cannot grow for grazing.

Inverse

Aliens May Think Humans Are Stupid — And That Could Save Us

In their recent paper, researchers imagine how our first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials might play out if they didn’t recognize that we were intelligent, too.

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The Independent UK

Turkey earthquakes may have moved entire country by up to six metres

Death toll from quakes crosses 15,000 mark as rescuers continue to pull bodies from rubble

The Conversation

Global supply chains are devouring what's left of Earth's unspoilt forests

While farming continues to drive deforestation around the world, 60% of the destruction of Earth’s large, intact forests is caused by other forces. In particular, our research shows that more than one-third of this destruction can be blamed on the production of commodities for export, particularly timber, minerals and oil…

The Guardian - UK

Shell directors personally sued over ‘flawed’ climate strategy

Claimants ClientEarth say the oil company’s plan puts the company at financial risk as the world transitions to clean energy

The Guardian - UK

Google AI chatbot Bard sends shares plummeting after it gives wrong answer

Chatbot Bard incorrectly said James Webb Space Telescope was first to take pictures of planet outside Earth’s solar system

Irish Mirror

Elon Musk announces he will unveil 'Master Plan 3' for humanity next month

The new plan is set to be presented at the next Tesla shareholder meeting on March 1

Bangkok Post

Thai economic prospects far from rosy

Logically, one would imagine that 2023 would be a much better year than 2022. Covid is over in every corner of the earth and economic activities resume. The world oil price is below US$80 (2,677 baht) per barrel and inflation is coming down. At the first meeting of 2023, the…

The Guardian - US

A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say

Astrophysicists propose geoengineering solution to climate warming, although skeptics still urge ‘massive’ fossil fuel cutbacks

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