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Meta’s new ‘nighttime nudges’ are meant to encourage healthier social media use. If teens want that sort of thing. By Andrew Paul | Published Jan 19, 2024 11:30 AM EST ‘Nighttime nudges’ will issue to teens after spending over 10 minutes on Reels or DMs post-10pm. Deposit Photos SHARE Meta is attempting to encourage Instagram’s...

A selfie taken by Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander on Jan. 18, 2024. The crescent Earth is visible in the background. (Image credit: Astrobotic) The end has apparently come for the troubled Peregrine moon lander. Astrobotic lost contact with Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. EST (2050 GMT) on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 18), the Pittsburgh-based company announced...

A massive collision between the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate is causing the Himalayas to grow, but new research suggests it might also be ripping Tibet apart. According to new findings shared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, data shows that a collision between two major tectonic plates may...

Published Jan 16th, 2024 6:50PM EST Image: dinosaurpictures.org Hot springs may have served as a catalyst for the origins of life on Earth billions of years ago, a new study has suggested. The study, which is featured in Nature Communications Earth & Environment , suggests that primordial hot springs could have helped produce life from...

The biggest movie on Netflix in the US right now is the newly released heist drama Lift , another stinker from Kevin Hart (with a 28% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score) that’s best avoided like the plague. No disrespect to Kevin, but as I’ve said before he’s basically become the kiss of death in terms of...

Well, that was fast. Just a year after Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched their first post-Instagram project — the personalized social news aggregator app Artifact — they abruptly decided to call it quits, having come to the conclusion that “the market opportunity isn’t enough to warrant continued investment” in the product. That...

The X-59 is finally here. As NASA’s newest X-plane, the X-59 is designed to break the sound barrier without the thunderous sonic booms that typically occur when aircraft go supersonic. Instead, the Quesst will make a much quieter “thump,” similar to the sound of a car door slamming as heard from indoors. If successful, the...

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Jan. 1, 2024, causing significant uplift in some coastal areas of the Noto Peninsula. (Image credit: Google Earth/GSI, processed by Nahel Belgherze) Satellite images captured striking changes in the coastline of Japan’s Noto Peninsula following a massive earthquake on New Year’s Day.  A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan on...

Astrobotic posted this selfie, captured by its Peregrine moon lander, on X on Jan. 9, 2024. (Image credit: Astrobotic) Astrobotic’s Peregrine moon lander has beamed home another in-space selfie, a memorable shot that captured a sliver of its home planet. The photo, which Astrobotic posted on X on Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 9), shows one of...

We’ll have to wait a little longer for humanity’s return to the moon. In a media teleconference on Tuesday (Jan. 9), NASA leadership stated that its flagship Artemis 2 mission will be delayed from November 2024 until September 2025. And the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission, originally targeted for late 2025, will now aim for September...