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World The Latest: Queen Elizabeth sends condolences to Indonesia Associated Press • December 24, 2018     Tsunami Rips Through Small Island in Sunda Strait Following Krakatau Eruption Tsunami Rips Through Small Island in Sunda Strait Following Krakatau Eruption Storyful Scroll back up to restore default view. TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on a tsunami that hit along Indonesia's Sunda Strait (all times local): 9:55 p.m. Queen Elizabeth II has sent a message of condolence to the president of Indonesia and the Indonesian people following the weekend tsunami that killed hundreds. She said she and her husband, Prince Philip, were "deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life following the devastating tsunami." The queen sent condolences to those who lost loved ones and to those who lost their homes and livelihoods. Elizabeth also praised the emergen...

Lifestyle Falling into a black hole ‘would erase your past but give you infinite possible futures’ Rob Waugh , Yahoo News UK • March 1, 2018 It looks quite dangerous, if we’re honest (Space.com) More Falling into a black hole has never seemed like an appealing prospect, with scientists suggesting that the enormous gravity might pull you into a long string, like spaghetti. But a UC Berkeley mathematician says that in some black holes, you could survive – but  your past  would be ‘wiped’. Not only that, but your past would stop determining your future – so you’d have an infinite number of possible futures. According to UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz, mathematical calculations show that for some specific types of black holes in a universe like ours, which is expanding at an accelerating rate, it is possible to survive the passage from a deterministic world into a non-deterministic black hole. In smooth, non-ro...

Search for first stars yields proof of dark matter UPI • February 28, 2018 Search for first stars yields proof of dark matter More Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Astronomers say they've discovered evidence of dark matter. Scientists found the dark matter signatures while searching for the universe's first stars. According to a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and Arizona State University, the newly discovered signal is the product of interactions between normal and dark matter -- the first of its kind. The signal hails from the distance universe, when the cosmos was still in its infancy -- 180 million years after the Big Bang. "Dark matter is the key to unlocking the mystery of what the universe is made of," Rennan Barkana, head of the astrophysics department at Tel Aviv's School of Physics and Astronomy, said in a news release. Continue Reading

It's Snowing in Britain, and People Are Trying to Ski Down the Streets POPSUGAR News • February 28, 2018 It's Snowing in Britain, and People Are Trying to Ski Down the Streets More Just like the rare snowfall in Rome, Great Britain was coated in Siberian snow, better know as "The Beast From the East," this week. Not only did it make for a photo album of scenic shots, but it also encouraged snowfall enthusiasts to fully immerse themselves in the weather change. We're talking about grown adults on skis in mere inches of snow. And behind any enthusiast is a British cynic ready to bring them back down to earth, in Twitter form. Read on for the best Twitter reactions to those who perhaps enjoyed the snow a little too much. Continue Reading