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This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding coastline. The sheer magnitude of the October 2021 die-off, when hundreds, possibly thousands, of herring washed up, is what...

NASA is using lasers to evolve how the agency communicates between spacecraft.  In the past, the space agency has relied on radio signals beamed through its Deep Space Network to transmit any sort of scientific data from deep space probes back to Earth. Lasers, however, have the ability to vastly increase the amount of data...

Home News Tech A rendering of one of Zephalto’s stratospheric balloons. (Image credit: Zephalto) Space tourism has never looked this fancy. France-based startup Zephalto has partnered with Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, in a plan to begin offering elegant high-altitude stratospheric balloon flights. Lofted by a huge balloon filled with hydrogen...

A group of Europe’s major space and telecommunications players will bid for a proposed satellite constellation that could compete with SpaceX’s Starlink system.  Companies including Airbus Defense and Space, Eutelsat, SES, and Thales Alenia Space announced that they have formed a partnership to respond to the European Commission’s call for assistance in creating a future...

Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek Go to maps.google.com and select “Saved” from the side menu. Go to the “Maps” tab and click “Create Map.” From here, you have a number of options of creating a custom map that does not show up on the public Google Maps. You don’t need any special software to create...

Justin Duino / How-To Geek You probably know that choosing a gaming laptop over a gaming desktop PC means getting less performance, but how big is that gap exactly? The answer is probably not as large as you think. In fact, it may not matter! Absolute Performance: Desktop Wins If you compare the absolute highest-end...

News Two LEGO sets you won’t want to miss. @xguntherc May 7, 2023, 1:13 pm EST | 2 min read LEGO If you’re a fan of LEGO and Disney, you’ll love the two new sets unveiled this week to help celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary. We’re getting a new collection of our favorite characters, along with...

Gaurav Shukla / How-To Geek To fix the NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID error, you can try reloading the webpage, updating the browser and operating system, clearing the browser cache, and disabling your antivirus. Plus, you can check if any browser extension is interfering. The error message “NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID” is one of the cryptic privacy errors you’re likely to come...

News @jdannychadwick May 7, 2023, 12:34 pm EST | 1 min read Microsoft Microsoft’s Zune has been officially dead for over a decade. The company discontinued the MP3 player back in 2012. But it’s coming back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe this weekend with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Microsoft is...

The researchers studied honey bees exhibiting different behaviors: foragers, nurse bees, and queens. Honey bees in general have been a key insect model for better understanding learning and memory for more than 100 years. Credit: Hiroki Kohno Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera...