Solar panels collect sunlight. But how does that sunlight turn into electricity? This is where the essential part of a residential solar system comes into play: a solar inverter. A solar inverter takes the electricity your solar panels make and turns it into electricity the devices in your home can use. Solar panels are an … Read more
The U.S. officers who screen migrants at the border to determine eligibility for asylum have been plowing through cases at a record clip since last May, when the Biden administration placed tougher restrictions on people who cross illegally. The officers are completing twice as many interviews per month as they did a year ago, and … Read more
Astronomers are excited about this one. Using a sprawling astronomical array in the lofty Chilean desert — the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) — scientists found huge volumes of water around a young, developing solar system (technically still in its “protoplanetary disk” phase). The star, HL Tauri, is located 450 light-years away in space. Yet … Read more
Kanye West continues to gripe about where his kids go to school — publicly demanding his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, take them out ASAP … and he’s dog-whistling again. The rapper/producer threw up a new IG post Wednesday night — which he has since deleted — and he name-dropped Kim explicitly with a strong request … … Read more
Kanye West takes to Instagram to call out Adidas over Yeezy sale while claiming system is working against him Kanye West rails against system & Adidas: ‘Everybody know’ Kanye West is clearly frustrated. In his new post, he called Adidas for selling Yeezy Boost 350 while claiming the system was working against him. “Anybody who … Read more
To figure out why and how the effect lasts for years after someone smokes their last cigarette, Duffy’s team turned to their donors’ DNA. Seemingly everything from wildfire smoke to your parents’ trauma has been linked to epigenetic changes—physical manipulations of the DNA molecule that switch genes on or off. Sure enough, the long-term effect … Read more
Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to tackle the misinformation that spreads across social media — particularly in the lead-up to national elections. Following user reports of fact-checks spotted on the network, the company confirmed it’s engaged with fact-checking organizations … Read more
In our solar system’s proverbial “no man’s land,” a deep space realm beyond the planets, scientists detected unexpected activity. This remote area, inhabited by ice-clad worlds like Pluto (a dwarf planet), is called the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped region surrounding much of our solar system. It’s a relatively little known place, but millions of frozen, … Read more
Allies of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who authorities say died in a remote prison colony on Friday, repeatedly warned officials that his health was deteriorating and had demanded toxicology and other tests for severe pain and multiple seizures. The lawyer and prominent anti-corruption activist was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, in … Read more
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General Motors may be struggling when it comes to fully autonomous driving, but the company is still feeling bullish about the future of hands-free driving. Today, it announced plans to expand its Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel on certain roads, to cover nearly double … Read more