A study by Copernicus reports that the effect of sea ice (fast ice connected to land) as a supporting force against land ice is negligible. The study area was the Larsen B Ice Shelf, which has been collapsing since 2002 and is effectively gone after a major collapse in 2022. We observe the evacuation of … Read more
Microsoft’s latest Surface tablet promises to be a generational upgrade that’s more than just faster, quieter, and more efficient. It’s all thanks to a change in the type of processor inside. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Find out more. The Surface Pro 11 … Read more
While none of the interplanetary missions have found traces of life on Mars, both the Viking and China’s Zhurong rovers have discovered astonishing features of the Red Planet that could provide insight into its history and evolution. When Zhurong, China’s first-ever Mars landing mission, orbited the Red Planet for a year, it saw something surreal … Read more
Newly released images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter show a breathtaking view of a huge ‘scar’ on the surface of Mars known as Aganippe Fossa. This remarkable geologic formation is a graben, a steep-sided, trench-like gorge that extends for about 370 miles (600 kilometers), longer than the Grand Canyon. These images provide … Read more
New research suggests that mysterious swirl patterns on the lunar surface may be linked to subsurface magma activity. The “lunar vortices“observed on the moon show a spiral pattern created by magnetized rocks that deflect or redirect the waves solar wind particles that constantly bombard the moon. Moon rocks that fall within the lunar vortices remain … Read more
Jupiter’s moon Io, which is as full of volcanoes as a porcupine is full of quills, is the most volcanically active world in the solar system. At any given time, about 150 of Io’s 400 or so active volcanoes are erupting. The moon is constantly spewing lava and gas, a veritable factory of volcanic excretions. … Read more
One of the major questions that has occupied Earth scientists over the past decade is, “What’s going on down there?” Beneath your feet, some 3,400 miles deep, lies the Earth’s inner core. It’s nearly the size of the moon, as hot as the surface of the sun, and helps maintain the planet’s magnetic field, which … Read more
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Surface Pro 11, the first flagship Surface device to ship exclusively with Arm processors. Andrew Cunningham Microsoft has been trying to make Windows-on-Arm processors a reality for so long that at one point I assumed it would never happen. The first attempt was Windows RT, which ran well enough on the puny … Read more
Ever since Apple’s MacBooks switched to the company’s own M-series chips, Windows users have been wondering when a similar revolution would happen to their machines. Microsoft has to say, it wasn’t for lack of trying. In 2012, the company released the , which featured an Arm-based processor, the same architecture used in Apple’s silicon. Unfortunately, … Read more
Ed Bott/ZDNET The Windows PC industry has been in a rut over the past decade. Microsoft and its OEM partners routinely ship a batch of new devices every year, usually based on incremental speed increases for Intel CPUs. If you buy this year’s model, you’ll get slightly better battery life and a modest performance boost … Read more