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CleanTechnica
Gas Prices Up 56% In USA - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. US gas prices have gone up, and up, and up since the country bombed Iran in late February. In March, I reported that the average price of gas in the country had gone up from $2.89/gall…

Economy & General

Defector.com
Shohei Ohtani Adds "Little League Home Run" To His Résumé - Defector

It came in the top of the eighth, with the Dodgers already ahead of the Angels on Saturday night by four. Shohei Ohtani walked to the plate with two outs but runners on first and second, thanks to a Max Muncy single and an Alex Call walk. On the second pitch,…

DW (English)
Dead humpback whale off Denmark is 'Timmy' - DW.com

Divers have confirmed that a dead humpback whale spotted off Denmark is the same creature that spent weeks beached off Germany's Baltic coast. It comes two weeks after a contentious rescue operation.

Phys.Org
Neutrino flavor flips could be key to triggering supernovae - Phys.org

Despite being so elusive, neutrinos are produced in abundance in some of the most violent events in the universe. One of their strangest properties is that they can spontaneously switch between three types, or "flavors": a phenomenon known as neutrino oscilla…

Tech, Health & Opinion

Puck.news
Everlane Is Selling Out… to Shein - Puck

The Millennial D.T.C. company built a global brand based on sustainability and radical transparency. Now, after a years-long slump, it’s being acquired by one of China’s most notorious purveyors of ultra-fast fashion.

Space Daily
Saturn's rings are disappearing — NASA estimates they'll be gone within 100 million years — which means we happen to be alive during the brief window of cosmic history when Saturn has rings at all - Space Daily

The figure most people remember from the 2018 ring rain study is the Olympic swimming pool. Saturn, according to the team led by James O’Donoghue of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, loses an amount of water from its rings every half hour that would fill on…

Space Daily
Greenland sharks can live for more than 400 years — meaning some of the ones swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Isaac Newton was — and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind, navigating the deep ocean with parasite - Space Daily

The Greenland shark has become a fixture of popular science writing in the way of a small number of charismatic creatures: the immortal jellyfish, the deep-sea tube worm, the bristlecone pine. The story arrives in roughly the same shape each time it is told.

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