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: Thousands of flights canceled, delayed as winter storm blankets much of U.S. in snow and ice
Blue’s legendary Snowball Ice USB mic is down to £38
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Blue’s legendary Snowball Ice USB mic is a popular way to get started with streaming, VO and YouTube video production, and now it’s 30% off at Amazon UK. That brings it to just £38.99, the lowest price we’ve seen in months and a good value for the level of quality provided.
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‘Pikmin 4’ trailer introduces Ice Pikmin and a weird dog thing
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Nintendo has released a trailer for Pikmin 4, six years after Hey! Pikmin came out on the 3DS and a decade after Pikmin 3‘s release in 2013. It’s been a long wait, but hopefully it’ll be worth it for nostalgic fans.
As in previous games, Pikmin 4 has players amass a tiny army of plant-headed Pikmin who follow you around like a trusting flock of ducklings. You can then use your followers to solve puzzles and defeat enemies through the power of overwhelming numbers, literally throwing them at whatever problem you come across.
New elements added in Pikmin 4 include Ice Pikmin, which are able to freeze things, as well as a weird dog creature called Oatchi who you and your tiny Pikmin cult can hitch a ride on.
Pikmin 4 will land Jul. 21 on Nintendo Switch.
Scientists accidentally create new form of ice not expected to exist
Scientists Unexpectedly Discover Weird New Form of Ice During Experiment
The ice of our everyday lives consists of water molecules lined up in a hexagonal pattern, and those hexagonal lattices neatly stack on top of each other…. With permutations of temperature and pressure outside what generally occurs on Earth, water molecules can be pushed into other crystal structures.
“This is completely unexpected and very surprising,” said Christoph Salzmann, a chemistry professor at University College London in England and an author of a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science that described the ice…. The new discovery shows, once again, that water, a molecule without which life is not known to be able to exist, is still hiding scientific surprises yet to be revealed. This experiment employed relatively simple, inexpensive equipment to reveal a form of ice that could exist elsewhere in the solar system and throughout the universe.
And according to LiveScience, the new form of ice has some unusual properties:
Among them, Salzmann said, is that when the researchers compressed the medium-density ice and heated it to minus 185 F (minus 120 C), the ice recrystallized, releasing a large amount of heat. “With other forms of [amorphous] ice, if you compress them and you release the pressure, it’s like nothing happened,” Salzmann said. “But the MDA [medium-density amorphous ice] somehow has this ability to store the mechanical energy and release it through heating.”
Medium-density amorphous ice might occur naturally on the ice moons of gas giant planets, Salzmann said, where the gravitational forces of the enormous worlds compress and shear the moons’ ice. If so, the mechanical energy stored in this form of ice could influence the tectonics on these Hoth-like moons….
Scientists still debate the nature of water at extremely low temperatures. Any debate now needs to take into account medium-density amorphous ice, Salzmann said.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for submitting the article.
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Overwatch 2’s next map breaks the ice on Mei’s backstory
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Overwatch 2 Season 3 is dropping next week, and Blizzard has shown off a new map that will be arriving when the season arrives, Antarctic Peninsula.
Early next week, February 7 to be precise, Overwatch 2 Season 3 is coming to the competitive shooter. While full details on what to expect aren’t out just yet, Blizzard has offered us a small look at the next map, Antarctic Peninsula, which looks like you’ll need to have your favourite heroes dressing up a bit warmer for. This map is specifically designed for the Control game mode, and consists of three points to capture: one that surrounds a mini drill, one on an icebreaker ship, and another in the science labs.
Designing the map was apparently more of a challenge than normal, according to level designer Trey Spisak (thanks, PC Gamer). “We’re used to working on you know, sort of modular, street, city-based stuff that has a lot of like real world reference, that’s great to look at. All of a sudden, we say we’re gonna do Antarctica and you Google ‘Antarctic,’ and you go, oh, you know, that’s a problem.”