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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderza. 9 nov. ’19
The movie ‘Interstellar’ came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
Director Christopher Nolan’s Hollywood blockbuster “Interstellar” just celebrated its fifth anniversary. In the movie, Matthew McConaughey plays an astronaut who journeys into a supermassive black hole called Gargauntua. To make “Interstellar” scient…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdi. 5 nov. ’19
The winner of the New York City Marathon and the fastest marathoner in the world have one thing in common: Both wear the same controversial shoes
On Sunday, the Kenyan runner Geoffrey Kamworor won the New York City Marathon, completing the course in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 13 seconds. Last month, Eliud Kipchoge completed a marathon in under two hours – the shortest time ever – but the feat didn’t …
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- za. 2 nov. ’19
Daylight-saving time is about to an end. It’s one of the world’s stupidest rituals.
Daylight-saving time (DST) ends Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m. in the US. Clocks will move back one hour. In the US, DST started in the early 1900s as a way to cut energy use. Today, many Americans think it’s no longer worth the hassle. Research sugges…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderza. 2 nov. ’19
Greta Thunberg told Ellen DeGeneres that meeting with President Trump would be ‘a waste of time, really’
The climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared on Friday’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” DeGeneres asked the 16-year-old whether she’d consider trying to help President Donald Trump understand climate change. Thunberg responded: “I just think …
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insidervr. 1 nov. ’19
Greta Thunberg is stuck on the wrong continent after the year’s most important UN climate-change summit got moved from Chile to Spain
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old activist, has emerged as the face of a global youth movement demanding action to curb climate change. Thunberg refuses to fly in airplanes because of their carbon footprint, so she used a zero-emissions sailboat to cross…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdo. 31 okt. ’19
Sorry, Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey: There’s so much CO2 in the atmosphere that planting trees won’t save us
On Tuesday, Elon Musk pledged to donate $1 million to the #TeamTrees campaign started by the YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson (also known as “MrBeast”). The campaign hopes to plant 20 million trees “in a variety of forests on public and private lands in area…
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- do. 31 okt. ’19
The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco, and evacuees are finally going home. Here are the latest updates.
The Kincade Fire ignited in Sonoma County, California, on October 23 and has burned 76,825 acres. It was 60% contained as of Thursday morning. The fire forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate their homes as powerful winds enabled it to spread quickl…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderdi. 29 okt. ’19
Far more people are threatened by rising seas than scientists realized, a study shows: ‘The magnitude of the numbers speaks for itself’
The number of people threatened by sea-level rise and high-tide flooding around the world could be triple previous estimates, according to a new study. The research found that 110 million people currently live below the high-tide line, and 250 millio…
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderma. 28 okt. ’19
Every person alive today descended from a woman who lived in modern-day Botswana about 200,000 years ago, a new study finds
Anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens, emerged in Africa about 200,000 years ago. But the precise location from which they originated has remained uncertain. Now, a new study suggests modern humans’ ancestral homeland was in modern-day …
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- Aylin Woodward voor Business Insiderza. 26 okt. ’19
PG&E has announced power outages for 2 million Californians, after acknowledging that a broken wire may have sparked the Sonoma blaze
California utility company Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has notified 850,000 customers across 36 counties that they could lose power this weekend. The blackouts are meant to reduce wildfire risk amid warm, dry, windy conditions. The Kincade Fire i…
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