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Years
The orbital period of the Earth (or another planet) as it moves around the Sun is measured in years. There's a half decent wikipedia entry on Years over at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years
- Is there even more proof that Covid was changed in a lab? It turns out that the virus has a small piece of DNA that Moderna patented three years before the pandemic started. [web page]
- More galaxies exist in the universe than Carl Sagan ever dreamed. [web page]
- Keanu Reeves might just be the hardest working actor out there. And also the nicest? [web page]
- Organic compounds on Mars discovered by NASA's Perseverance Rover. [web page]
- After three years, the CRISPR sickle cell treatment is almost entirely successful. [web page]
- Fish poo and vertical farms mix for a new wave in high-rise ag. [web page]
- The 20 million kWh "Water Battery" in Switzerland is now operational. [web page]
- Apart from linking transistor chips, firms that use silicon photonics to develop quantum computers, supercomputers, and chips for self-driving cars are also generating a lot of money. [web page]
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory now has the world's most powerful supercomputer. [web page]
- From 2023, India will begin construction of ten nuclear power plants in a "fleet mode." [web page]
- NASA's Sentry-II is a big step forward in determining the chances of a small asteroid colliding with the Earth under a variety of extinction scenarios. [web page]
- Now the public know why the US FDA and Pfizer sought to keep the findings of their Covid vaccination experiment confidential for up to 75 years. There are a few severe issues that need to be addressed. [video]
- Even a minor atomic weapon exchange would cause billions of deaths from nuclear-winter-related famine and supply disruptions. [web page]
- A new $50 billion bill to increase US semiconductor output is advanced by the Senate. [web page]
- In a recent innovation, plastic-eating enzymes have become even better. [video]
- Intel has a plan to rescue and reshore its semiconductor business inside the USA, but it's expensive and possibly risky, too. [web page]
- Why we haven't noticed the nanotechnology revolution. [web page]
- Over the past 50 years, the quantity of time parents spend with their children has increased in many nations. [web page]
- China will not be able to extricate Russia from the economic turmoil that has resulted from its invasion of Ukraine. [video]
- What if, though, EVs could charge directly from the sun, bypassing the grid entirely? [web page]
- Expanding agriculture is the main cause of deforestation. This land expansion is over. After millennia, agricultural land utilisation has dropped globally. [web page]
- A massive attempt to sequence the genomes of all complex creatures on the planet is now underway. [web page]
- For many years, the concept of universal basic income has been gathering traction, and now the largest guaranteed income experiment in the United States is launching in Chicago. [web page]
- What's the state of play with nanotech in 2022? [video]
- A new study found that carbon, nitrogen, and soil density levels in cleared forests reached 90% of the levels in untouched forests after 1 to 9 years. The key was to leave them alone, and that was the best way to do it. [web page]
- The epidemic hasn't finished yet, with a million mentally ill youngsters, a 9.2 million-strong NHS waiting list in two years, an infinite backlog of criminal court cases, and inflation. It has just just begun. [web page]
- Within five years, potatoes with more vitamin C than a lemon might be seen on store shelves thanks to "game-changing" gene editing technology. [web page]
- American Airlines has committed to purchase up to 20 Boom Supersonic supersonic aircraft and has made a non-refundable deposit on the aircraft that are still in the planning stages and will not take to the skies for many more years. [web page]
- Scientists use CRISPR to speed up evolution by a million years in just a few months. [web page]
- Lasers have the potential to reduce the lifetime of nuclear waste from a million years to 30 minutes. [web page]
- Nissan is the latest carmaker to announce plans to invest $17.6 billion over the next five years on an ambitious electrification strategy to boost the adoption of electric cars. [web page]
- NASA is now taking the possibility of a near FTL Mach Effect Thruster seriously. [video]
- Space-based solar mirror energy plants are taking a turn towards reality. [web page]
- Over the next five years, the globe will likely see a wind and solar boom as prices fall and countries increase their climate goals. [web page]
- While the number of individuals with democratic political rights has expanded tremendously across the globe, these rights are nevertheless far from universal, and certainly not inevitable. [web page]
- Beef cattle that have been genetically modified have received regulatory approval in the United States. [web page]
- How a volcanic eruption in ancient Australia caused the world's worst climatic disaster. [web page]
- Why rising global temperatures are not to blame for today's economic woes; instead, governments are to blame. [web page]
- Nuclear weapons in East Asia looks set to spread as China and North Korea rattle their sabres. [web page]
- The creation of artificial gravity on the moon is a crazy idea proposed by Japan. [web page]
- Why everyone is worried about Taiwan's chances of resisting a Chinese invasion. [web page]
- China outproduces the USA across the spectrum of military capabilities. [video]
- Why the UK is now rapidly slipping down the world's free speech league tables. [video]
- Volvo will conduct a three-year trial of wireless EV charging in Sweden. [web page]
- With their first generation of Arc Alchemist GPUs for laptops, Intel comes out swinging. [web page]
- The significance of dissent in times of crises, how regular people have the most to lose from cancel culture, and how wokeness feeds on absurdity. [product]
- Solar power plants in space could become a reality soon. [web page]
- Intel is racing to get its latest chip generation to market early. [web page]
- Why conspiracy theories are so appealing to those who are enticed to believe them. [video]
- Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, by Catherine Belton. [book]
- The UK developed 27 nuclear reactors in 11 years, more than the US or France. [web page]
- How the IMF embraced hard left ideologies, forgetting its core mission for economic stability. [web page]
- The most comprehensive map of the human brain to date will be the result of an international effort costing $500 million. [web page]
- There are many amazing trends for the future that the doom-and-gloom media won't and don't report. That's their loss! [web page]
- What are the arguments in 2021 for the UK making cannabis legal? [video]
- How will the real estate troubles in China hit their economy, and the world's? [web page]
- Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Philip has died at the age of 99. [web page]
- Why our future relies on libraries, reading, and daydreaming, according to Neil Gaiman. [web page]
- Capitalism's demise has started. [web page]
- The founder of Patagonia donates the business to combat climate change. [web page]
- According to Lego, children should learn mostly via play until they are eight years old. [web page]
- Yesterday was my last day as a surgeon. [web page]
- Germany's first homosexual marriage is taking place thanks to a new legislation. [web page]
- Trump pledged to donate millions of dollars to charity. Over the course of seven years, we discovered less than $10,000. [web page]
- Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: a demagogue's racially tinged ascent. [web page]
- Up to four years before symptoms appear, an experimental blood test detects cancer. [web page]
- A Russian artist uses paper to create intricate Baroque wigs. [web page]
- Let's not be fooled by this Facebook privacy ruse. [web page]
- Malawi's terrifying leader, who is known for putting an end to child marriages. [web page]
- According to her relatives, an Iranian human rights lawyer has been condemned to 38 years in jail. [web page]
- A former South Korean president has been condemned to jail. [web page]
- The LGBT pride flag has been redesigned to include LGBT persons of colour. [web page]
- The 'world's oldest complete shipwreck' was discovered in the Black Sea. [web page]
- From their brush with Bernie, Democrats will take all the wrong lessons. [web page]
- It's an honour to be valued over the lives of so many people. [web page]
- After 32 years of service, a Down syndrome employee retires. [web page]
- Americans are perplexed by a government in which the leader resigns after making a terrible decision. [web page]
- From the world's happiest school, here are some tips for minimising teacher stress. [web page]
- Bernd Leno has joined Fulham. [web page]
- In a nutshell, Clinton threatens Iowan supporters by telling them to paint their front doors with the campaign logo before sundown. [web page]
- Suzanne Simard explains how trees communicate with one another. [video]
- Christina Grimmie of The Voice was shot during a concert and died at the age of 22. [web page]
- How Lithuanian Cops Celebrate International Women's Day. [web page]
- Which of the following will impact you? [web page]
- Student loan officers watch with pride as a $200,000 asset graduates from college. [web page]
- After tearing off passport pages to use as toilet paper, a British tourist was denied entrance to Thailand. [web page]
- The boy, who is eight years old, claims that 'angels' assisted him in rescuing his father from the wrecked automobile. [web page]
- Ancient Creatures are 3D-printed in metal and resurrected by a scientist. [web page]
- In a'milestone,' Africa has been proclaimed free of wild polio. [web page]
- Obama claims that the United States will be on Mars by the 2030s. [web page]
- Jethro, a Cornish comedian, has died at the age of 73. [web page]
- The Most Financially Responsible Act Of A 17-Year-Life Old's Is Failure To Get Into Private College. [web page]
- An eight-month-pregnant athlete wins a gold medal in Taekwondo. [web page]
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is reimagined for its 40th anniversary - see the video. [web page]
- It's Never Too Late to Start Over and Move to Italy. [web page]
- For 13.8 billion years, 360TB of data may be stored on this tiny glass disc. [web page]
- Discover the best beaches in Europe in Portugal's Alentejo area with this guide. [web page]
- The film 'NeverEnding Story' is making a comeback on the big screen. [web page]
- Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years have been uncovered at Saqqara, Egypt. [web page]
- We found that our parents were Russian agents on that day. [web page]
