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In early April, the state of Washington managed to do what once seemed impossible: successfully pass a bill establishing carbon pricing. It did so with the backing of oil giant BP, which has a lot riding on a particular piece of it: carbon offsets. Multinational oil and gas company BP…

News Paula Lindo 20 Hrs AgoThe plume from the La Soufriere eruption on Wednesday visible over the mountain. - Photo by Stephon NicholasThe Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) has given the UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) a US$17,150 grant to support its monitoring efforts during the ongoing eruption…

What just happened? Elon Musk's Neuralink company has just released a video of a monkey playing a video game using only his mind. The macaque is able to move the paddles in a game of Pong just by thinking about it. As explained by the narrator, nine-year-old Pager had a…

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its mind. Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink implanted about six weeks before the video was shot, the video’s unnamed narrator…

Slipping boron into alkyl ethersThe carbon–oxygen bonds that hold alkyl ethers together are relatively inert. Lyu et al. report that zinc and nickel can team up to insert boron between the carbon and oxygen using an unusual mechanism. First, a dibromoborane pries open the bond with help from a zinc…

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by Issa Maki , posted on 04 April 2021 / 1,261 Views It's not hard to turn a cold shoulder on the sheer amount of ports, remakes, and remasters on Nintendo Switch. Something like Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, with its enhanced graphics and brand-new epilogue is certainly worth consideration, but Capcom…

2021-04-01 15:00:00by Eric Van Allen PSX walk with me For fans of obscure PlayStation games and the TV series Twin Peaks, the 1998 PlayStation adventure Mizzurna Falls has been a bit of a white whale. Several translation efforts have been released over the years, but a new patch doesn't just…

DUBAI: The International Prize for Arabic Fiction has announced its six shortlisted authors who are competing to receive a $50,000 award when the winner is revealed on May 25. Read on to learn more about the writers and their novels.  Abdulatif Ould Abdullah - ‘The Eye of Hammurabi’ In the…

Identifying PAHs in spaceMidinfrared spectroscopy has shown that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are abundant in many astronomical objects, but this technique cannot determine which specific PAH molecules are present. Radio astronomy could provide individual identifications if the molecule is sufficiently abundant and has a large dipole moment, but PAHs are…