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The leap second: Because our clocks are more accurate than the Earth
(credit: Toni Verdú Carbó)
We've recently been treated to that extra day in February that reminds us that 2016 is a leap year. Introduced by Julius Caesar, the leap day is necessary because the orbital year is not exactly equal to the 365 days of our calendar year. Without the adjustment, this year’s spring-like Christmas would...
AlphaGo AI program gets stronger, beats champion Lee Sedol again in second game of Go showdown
Signaling more ambitious retail plans, Amazon chooses San Diego for second brick-and-mortar bookstore
Just four months after opening its first physical bookstore in Seattle, Amazon.com is poised to open its second location, choosing the Westfield University Towne Center Mall in San Diego.
Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second
A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm...
Virgin Galactic set to unveil second SpaceShipTwo, 16 months after tragic loss of the first one
MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic is rolling out a second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane for its public debut today, more than six years after the first SpaceShipTwo’s rollout...
Evolution: Mitochondria in the second act
A large phylogenomics study reveals that the symbiotic event that led to the emergence of organelles known as mitochondria may have occurred later in the evolution of complex cells than was thought.
Nature doi: 10.1038/nature16876
‘Jessica Jones’ gets second season on Netflix; other show’s premiere dates set
The Netflix superhero series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” will be back for a second season the streaming service announced on Sunday. Netflix...
Jessica Jones is returning for a second season, Netflix says
Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones.
In announcing their lineup for original programming in 2016, Netflix on Sunday confirmed that Jessica Jones would return for a second season.
Netflix did not provide a possible date for the premiere of the second season of the show, which features Krysten Ritter as the titular Marvel character, but the online...
For the second time, we are witnessing a new geological epoch
Artist Berndnaut Smilde imagines strange new climates of the Anthropocene by suspending clouds in the middle of rooms. (credit: Berndnaut Smilde)
11,700 years ago, the Earth suffered a catastrophic climate change. As the ice age ended, sea levels rose by 120 meters, the days grew warmer, and many kinds of plant and animal life died out. But one...
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