Short fiction is repay to Futurismic , one of our preferent SF webzines which frequently publishes Ruth Nestvold , Chris Nakashima - Brown and Jason Stoddard , among others . The web site has been fiction - less since last April , but plans to start tend monthly destitute account again in March . And for those of you who are unhinged of gloominess and doomsday , newfangled editor - in - chief Paul Raven enounce he think SFshould be more optimisticabout our futurity ....

Apple ’s shiny young home base — which look part awesome office blank , part futurist Apple store — has been in the preparation for years . Now , Apple’sreceived terminal approval from the City of Cupertinoto get started . This edifice is going to be very real . A unanimous right to vote back in October has at long last given cost increase to official blessing now . That means that Cupertino City Council will allow Apple to get in into an prescribed Development Agreement , and Cook & Co....

In a groundbreaking series of observation , astronomers have used radio Wave to honor two supermassive dim holes orbiting around each other . This discovery , compound withthe observation of gravitational wavesfrom LIGO , are open up a completely new avenue in grim yap subject . The squad used the Very Long Baseline Array ( VLBA ) to contemplate galaxy 0402 + 379 , which is located 750 million light - year from Earth ....

After a winter of record - low precipitation and criminal record - high temperatures , I almost ca n’t conduct to look at the wildfire forecast for summer . But here it is . And boy , is it surly . It ’s not much of a surprise , really , with “ exceptional drouth ” conditions already blanket most places in the West . But this is pretty darn awful ....

After a few calendar week of conjecture , it looks like President - electTrump has finally picked the education repository for his incoming administration : Betsy DeVos . Two weeks ago , bets were on Dr Ben Carsonto be pick , a highly qualified neurosurgeon who simultaneously believed the Earth was no older than 10,000 years old . He also once said the Biblical figureJoseph built the Egyptian pyramidsto computer storage grain ....

The climate apocalypse want to strip us of everything consecrated in this world . There are concern about chocolate(though it is n’t depart extinct),the future of wine-colored , and even the potential loss of ourprized Tabasco sauce ! Astudypublished in Nature Plants Monday is throwing more depressing news our means : Beer is next . Yes , beer . Your Friday night good friend . Your motivation for that holiday brewery stop ....

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When Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536 , images of the queen were destroyed — leaving only one certain line drawing of her in existence . Now , facial recognition computer software may have discovered another contemporary portrayal of Boleyn . The only uncontested portrait of her is atop a baste jumper cable disc , know as the Moost Happi medal , sitting in the British Museum in London . But now , reports the Guardian , researcher in California have used facial recognition to equate the look on the Moost Happi medal with other painting — and have discover a close friction match with a portrait held at the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums in the UK ....

NASA scientists are having a lot of fun with Messenger , the spacecraft now orbiting Mercury . Not only they are documenting the planet at a resolution of 200 metre per pixel , but they are spotting all kinds of fun stuff . A few weeks ago it was theSesame Street ’s cookie monster . Today it ’s a smiley volcanic crater . https://gizmodo.com/nasa-on-mercurys-craters-anyone-else-think-this-looks-5951268 It looks like even the craters on Mercury have heard of Bob Ross !...

OnAugust 3 , over 17,000 ancient artifacts looted and smuggle out of Iraq were returned to their country of origin – which officials havecalledIraq ’s largest ever return of antiquities . artefact have beenreturned to Iraq fromthe US , Japan , Italy , and the Netherlands . Around 12,000 of the artifact were held in the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC , theNew York Timesreports . Many ancient Mesopotamian artifacts dating back up to 4,000 year – some of which come from amysterious lost metropolis – were loot oreven destroyedin the upset following the US - led encroachment of Iraq in 2003 ....

There are around 400 million pawl in the earth , the bulk of which are pets . While the animals know a surprisingly heavy amount about their human companions , there ’s plenty we still do n’t sleep with about them . In festivity of National Dog Week , here ’s all kinds of data that you likely never knew about your undecomposed friend . A Brief History of Inter-Species Love While the exact time that world and dogs pop to socialize together is unknown , most researcher agree that the coupling pass at least 15,000 years ago ....

When you purchase through links on our website , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . A antecedently unnamed stock of Europeans survive the coldest parts of the last ice age , only to vanish when Europe went through a warm spell starting about 15,000 old age ago . The discovery comes from the declamatory written report yet to look at the genetic makeup of ice age European hunter - gatherers ....

The Salton Sea , California ’s most heavily contaminated lake , is rapidly turning into toxic dust . Once a pop tourer spot , this troubled torso of pee is rapidly receding , up the concentration of salt and chemicals in the remaining water . The landlocked “ sea”was createdby stroke in the chess opening year of the 20th 100 when irrigation canal from the Colorado River spilled over , causing the valley to flood with water ....