Crucial Congo Rainforest Faces Growing Threats From Logging And Mining - [2022-11-17 57Uc10]

Ronnametres and quettagrams may soon join the ranks of SI units:

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New prefixes in the International System of Units could be confirmed on Friday, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta for very large numbers, like the amount of data on internet servers

JWST sees a stunning hourglass of light around a still-forming star:

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn’t yet finished forming, along with a disc of debris that may eventually become planets

Early meteorites brought enough water to Mars to create a global ocean:

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Meteorites bombarding the Red Planet may have carried so much water that it could have covered the planet in a layer 300 metres deep if spread out, while also depositing molecules essential for life

Quantum computers in use today are vulnerable to eavesdropping hackers:

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Companies such as IBM offer timeshare access to prototype quantum computers, but researchers have shown that they can access other users’ data on these machines

COP27: Brazil's Lula promises zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030:

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Brazil’s incoming president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to reverse the environmentally damaging policies of his predecessor in a speech at the UN climate meeting

Acid produced by the brain could drive disease-related psychosis:

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Kynurenic acid is made in the brain and could play a role in psychosis related to schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and bipolar disorder – and new drugs may be able to reduce it

Landslides can be triggered by small changes in atmospheric pressure:

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We knew earthquakes and heavy rain could initiate landslides, but now it seems alterations in atmospheric pressure can do it too if combined with certain conditions on the ground

NASA’s enormous SLS rocket has launched to space for the first time:

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The powerful Space Launch System rocket has finally launched. It took off from Cape Canaveral this morning and is the first step of NASA's plan to put people back on the moon

A stack of Apple laptops could work as a powerful supercomputer:

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Supercomputers are expensive to buy and run, but connecting up lots of consumer Apple computers that contain M1 chips may be able to do the same job for less

Crucial Congo rainforest faces growing threats from logging and mining:

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The area of forest felled in the Congo basin rose last year, but schemes giving power to Indigenous communities could be key to reversing the trend