“The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal,” reports the Washington Post. “The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists.” “This event is completely Read more…
“Researchers testing repurposed drugs against Covid-19 found that ivermectin didn’t reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the effect of the antiparasitic on the disease driving the pandemic,” reports the Wall Street Journal: Public-health authorities and researchers have for months said the drug hasn’t shown any benefit in Read more…
“A wild new theory suggests there may be another ‘anti-universe,’ running backward in time prior to the Big Bang,” writes Live Science, citing a new paper recently accepted for publication in the journal Annals of Physics. The idea assumes that the early universe was small, hot and dense — and Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turns up in Mike Melanson’s column “This Week in Programming”: While the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI) definition of open source software is quite clear on the matter — there must be “no discrimination against persons or groups” and “no discrimination against fields of endeavor” — the Read more…
Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station last night for a six-month stay, writess the Times of London. They were wearing flight suits “in the yellow and blue of the Ukrainian flag, in what appeared to be a daring statement against the war.” Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, the Soyuz Read more…
The U.S. government is warning of “possible threats” to satellite communication networks amid fears that recent attacks on satellite networks in Europe, sparked by the war in Ukraine, could soon spread to the United States. A joint CISA-FBI advisory published this week urges satellite communication (SATCOM) network providers and critical Read more…
