Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY: 30 DEGREES IN FRANCE
One of the most insane events Europe has ever lived

29.8 Trois Villes HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN FRENCH HISTORY
29.3 Oloron
29.2 Lanne en Baretous
20 stations >27C !

SPAIN 29.4 Granada

Next days
THOUSANDS OF RECORDS allover Europe except Central Mediterranean

Guy Fawkes: failed terrorist, accidental folk hero, and the only man to be posthumously hanged, drawn and quartered for good measure | Gemma Gould

Pridružite se Dnevu občanske znanosti 2025!

📅 12. november 2025
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Spoznajte zanimive projekte, priročnik, sodelujte na stojnicah in delavnicah za vse generacije.

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#ObčanskaZnanost #ToJeZnanost #MesecZnanosti

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Switzerland, final results:

Cantonal property tax on second homes (Mandatory referendum)

Support: 57.73%
Oppose: 42.27%

Turnout: 49.50%

NB: Mandatory referendum vote also requires double-majority (People & Cantons (Regions)) to pass.

➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Whilst we're publishing images that mainstream media won't, here is the most recent satellite imagery of Rafah (and the out of date satellite imagery Google Maps wants us to believe it looks like):

This is how I found out.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

UN Resolution on the Day of Hope and Peaceful Coexistence. You really can’t make this up

This video is just epic.

The beauty of the human spirit’s ability to overcome & thrive. 🇵🇸 ❤️

A23a - the world's largest iceberg - has just broken free in Antarctica.

This. This picture.

So THAT’S what’s happening.

Great tool —> earth.nullschool.net