Enlarge / Whales and their kin evolved from land-dwelling mammals, a transition that entailed major physiological and morphological changes—which geneticists have begun to parse. (credit: Hayes Baxley/National Geographic for Disney+) Around 400 million years ago, the ancestor of all four-limbed creatures took its first steps onto dry land. Fast-forward about 350 million years, and a…
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Stijn te Strake / Unsplash It’s the final countdown for the leap second, a janky way of aligning the atomic clock with the natural variation in the Earth’s rotation—but we’ll get to that. At a meeting last week in Versailles, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted nearly unanimously to abandon the controversial…
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SAVE $60: Walmart and the Microsoft Store both have the Xbox Series S on sale for $239.99 as of Nov. 26. It typically retails for $299.99, so you’ll be saving a good 20%. In need of a next-gen upgrade? You can score an Xbox Series S on sale for just $239.99 if you order it…
AMD’s incoming Navi 32 and 33 graphics cards have had some specs spilled, but as ever with the rumor mill, take these assertions with a whole heap of salt. Navi 31 is the flagship GPU that the RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX will be built around – the first RDNA 3 graphics cards that’ll…
Frontier is replacing its phone line with an online chat system. Taylor Rains/Inside Frontier Airlines has scrapped its telephone customer service line. The airline has switched to chat to give information as “efficiently” as possible, CNBC reported. Frontier said this month that a chat service “reduced negotiation” and dealt with more cases. Frontier Airlines has…
A screenshot from the official UK trailer for “Last Breath” showing photos of Chris Lemons. Dogwoof/YouTube Chris Lemons was a saturation diver for 10 years working on oil fields on the North Sea floor. Now, Lemons is a supervisor, who gives instructions to divers and is responsible for keeping them alive. In 2012, Lemons almost…
Biomedical engineers are well-compensated while tending to work in low-stress environments. Tom Robertson/Getty Images There are many jobs that are both well-paid and offer a relaxing work environment. We looked at jobs that pay at least $75,000 annually and that have a relatively low-stress work situation. Here are 36 of those jobs ranked from most…