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(Image credit: Getty Images) It’s that time of year when one retail event seems to follow another, all vying to get your attention — and your money — in the run-up to the holiday season. Amazon’s Prime Day event comes in two parts, first in the summer during mid-July and a second in October every year with both events now lasting for 48 hours. Black Friday is always the Friday after Thanksgiving — so this year’s event falls on Friday November 29, 2024.What is the difference between Prime Day and Black Friday?The major difference between the two retail sales events is that Prime Day is Amazon’s own sale, specifically for its Prime subscribers, and is held only on Amazon itself. Black Friday, on the other hand, is an event for everyone, and almost all the large retailers take par...

Time is both an essential form of measurement that rules our day-to-day lives and a concept that no one quite understands. From the ultrafast zeptosecond to the billions of years that the universe has been in existence, we can easily measure time’s passage. Yet some scientists question whether it is even fundamentally real. While the concept of time can feel impossible to capture, that hasn’t stopped artist Lia Halloran from trying. Many of her projects tackle how scale and time shift our perception of reality. In her 2022 piece Double Horizon, a 3-channel video installation piece, she projected divergent but closely related images of Los Angeles from a series of repeated flights she made over the city as she learned to fly. In her 2008 work Dark Skate, she skateboarded at night...

Inflation hurts, but you can still serve a delicious bounty without destroying your budget. Credit: SeventyFour / Shutterstock.com It’s not exactly news that the price of groceries has risen dramatically over the past few years (it may have been a factor in a recent election you no doubt read about). Walking out of the market with fewer bags or spending twice your budget from a couple years ago feels rough, no question. Pair that with the looming specter of Thanksgiving shopping, and you might feel downright disheartened. But Thanksgiving should be about gathering with your loved ones and share a meal, not meeting an im...

Hello, and welcome to the last issue of Grist’s special series on how climate disasters are shaping elections. I’m Zoya Teirstein. I was at an election night watch party in Asheville, North Carolina, last week when it became clear that Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to victory had become impossibly narrow. On the drive back to my hotel, I detoured around roads that had been carved away by Hurricane Helene two months prior. It’ll take years for Asheville, Black Mountain, Swannanoa, and other hard-hit communities in western North Carolina to recover from that storm. Residents will be reliant on the next White House administration to ferry them safely through this disaster and any others that may strike in the next four years. As the final ballots were counted, evidence mounted that...

Robotics can currently simulate cosmetic surgeons to a particular degree, however training them to do so frequently includes intricate shows and lengthy trial-and-error. Now, for the very first time, a maker effectively found out to duplicate basic operation jobs after merely examining video footage of medical professionals. Before it gets to work on human clients, the small robotic arms practiced on a pork loin. Physicians have actually progressively incorporated the da Vinci Surgical System into a range of treatments because the gadget's launching in 2000. The little set of robotic arms ending in tweezer-like graspers are currently utilized in prostatectomies, heart valve repair work, in addition to kidney and gynecologic operations. The gadget has...

MBARI scientists have actually explained an amazing brand-new types of nudibranch from the depths of the midnight zone. Nicknamed the "secret mollusc," Bathydevius caudactylus swims with a fingered tail, utilizes a spacious hood to catch food, and shines with fantastic bioluminescence. © 2014 MBARI Marine biologists have actually discovered a brand-new sea slug that is right in your home in the ocean's deep and dark midnight zone. With a big, gelatinous hood, tail like a paddle, and intense bioluminescence Bathydevius caudactylus is so special that it comes from an entire brand-new household of sea slugs. The animal nicknamed the "secret mollusc" is explained in a research study released in the December 2024 problem of ...

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No matter what you call the restroom-- the latrine, bathroom, john, bathroom, or powder space-- something is for particular. The restroom is among the most essential locations in our homes. It's where we prepare before work, school, or a date, the location where we can take a hot shower or bath and relax after a long, difficult day, and a remote area where we can do our organization in personal. And worry not, ought to there be a last-minute requirement to refurbish or a rush call even when one is not in your home, the good news is, a restroom can apparently be discovered in nearly any public area. While the washroom is frequently differentiated by the reality that its features and function differ from any other location in a home or business, this ordinary area has likewise end up being ...

Candi Muarajambi is among the biggest Buddhist temple substances worldwide. Constructed by a previous civilization, the complex continues to captivate scholars from numerous disciplines. Click to check out and check out among Candi Maurajambi temples in interactive 3D recorded by National Geographic Explorer and professional photographer Martin Edstrom.If one were to fly low over the north of Jambi in Sumatra every 800 years, the view of the landscape listed below would expose disconcerting modifications. In the 6th century, the most apparent sight would be the spread, dark orange structures of clay bricks, a contrast to the carpet of dark green tropical rain forest, together with the Batanghari River, hectic with trading boats. By the 14th century, what was noticeable on one's previous fl...

Space Voyager 2 zipped Uranus in 1986, providing us our just up-close take a look at the world-- however uncommon area weather condition right before the craft got here has actually provided us a deceptive concept about the world's electromagnetic field By Alex Wilkins Facebook/ Meta Twitter/ X icon Linkedin Reddit Email ...