Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion By Evan Howell edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier The Andes Mountains formed from the convergence of the Nazca plate and the South American plate. Aracar, seen in a satellite image from…
Superficial displays are out. Sincere commitment is in. Five years ago, I watched alongside millions of Americans as the news media looped a clip of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis. In the days that followed, as a national movement came to life, dozens of CEOs and executives reached…
Sabrina Carpenter is wasting no time riding the wave of her breakout success. Just over a year after the chart-topping Short n’ Sweet, the pop sensation has announced her next full-length project, Man’s Best Friend, slated to arrive on August 29 via Island Records. The announcement, made Wednesday (June 11), sent fans into a frenzy…
Israel and Iran continued to target each other with missiles and airstrikes overnight and into Saturday morning local time, with air raid sirens sounding across Israel, including in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as citizens were urged to seek shelter. Iran said on Saturday that strikes against Israel will continue, with targets set to expand to…
An oscilloscope in an electronic testing lab Uwe Moser/Alamy Microwaves seem to be able to spend “imaginary time” inside a material, but this bizarre phenomenon has never been shown to correspond to something real and measurable in the lab – until now. When a pulse of radiation, such as microwaves or light, travels through a…
Clay, a sales automation startup, has raised a Series C round at an approximate $3 billion valuation, led by CapitalG, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal. Clay and CapitalG didn’t respond to a request for comment. The new round comes just a month after the New York startup announced that it will…
Clubs were thrown but the towel was not. Rory McIlroy battled Oakmont’s treacherous setup and his own frustrations to survive for the weekend at the 125th US Open. As McIlroy clung on, high-profile exits from Pennsylvania included the defending champion Bryson DeChambeau, Tommy Fleetwood, Dustin Johnson, Joaquin Niemann, Justin Thomas and Shane Lowry. In epitomising…
Keke Palmer is giving fans the backstory behind her son Leodis Andrellton Jackson’s one-of-a-kind name, and it’s every bit as creative as it sounds. In a recent appearance on House Guest with Scott Evans, the actress revealed that it was her son’s father, Darius Jackson, who came up with the name “Leodis” by blending their…
The flight data recorder has been recovered and should shed some light on the cause of the disaster, which killed at least 269 people.
