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World's largest acidic geyser erupts in Yellowstone after years of silence - sparking fears the supervolcano could be next

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Yellowstone's supervolcano is creating a 19-mile bulge

Popular Science

Environment Yellowstone's supervolcano is creating a 19-mile bulge But scientists aren't that worried. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In Yellowstone National Park, a bulge the size of 279 football fields has risen by an inch since last July. With no signs of slowing down, the bump that's roughly 19 miles across may cause some worry that the iconic locale's hibernating supervolcano is readying for an apocalyptic reawakening. Although impressed by the situation, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory's scientist-in-charge doesn't sound particularly worried.


Scientists discover ominous sign that Yellowstone's supervolcano is building up to an eruption

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Scientists have discovered an ominous sign which could hint that Yellowstone's supervolcano is building up to an eruption. Using machine learning, researchers found there have been over 86,000 hidden earthquakes between 2008 and 2022. That is 10 times more tremors than scientists had previously detected. Worryingly, more than half of those earthquakes came in swarms - small groups of interconnected tremors - which have been known to precede volcanic activity. The researchers say these'chaotic' swarms were found moving along rough, young fault lines running deep below the Yellowstone Caldera. These clusters of seismic activity are likely caused by hot, mineral-rich water forcing itself through cracks in the rock.


On the Edge by Nate Silver review – the art of risk-taking

The Guardian

Nothing is more interesting to poker players and less interesting to everyone else than a breathless recounting of who bet how much with a jack and six of clubs in some game years ago. There's an awful lot of that kind of thing in this book, which celebrates poker players as paradigmatic citizens of a global intellectual community it calls "the River", which also counts among its inhabitants venture capitalists, crypto traders, fashionable philosophers and mild-mannered statisticians. One such statistician, Nate Silver himself, came to public prominence as a data-driven analyst of political polls at his website FiveThirtyEight, which predicted the results of US elections in 2008 and 2012 with seemingly uncanny accuracy. But before that he was a poker player, making money especially in the nascent internet-casino business, until Congress banned online poker in 2006. That, he has said, was his political awakening.


Scientists warn they have no accurate way to predict when supervolcano explosions could occur

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Volcanologists can predict when volcanos are going to erupt if they have a full detail of its eruptions. But for potentially apocalyptic supervolcanoes, such as the one bubbling under Yellowstone National Park, it's nearly impossible, given how varied their known eruptions have been, according to a new study. Researchers at Cardiff University noted there is not a'single model' that can help scientists understand how eruptions from supervolcanoes happen, making it difficult to understand when they might occur in the future. The researchers looked at geochemical and petrological evidence of 13 supereruptions that have happened over the past 2 million years, including the most recent one, Taupō volcano in New Zealand, which happened more than 24,000 years ago. Experts said there is not a'single model' that can help them understand how eruptions from supervolcanoes happen There was no'single, unified mode' that showed how each of the 13 played out, with some starting gradually over a period of weeks to months, while others exploded suddenly and violently. The researchers also found that the eruptions lasted for varying times, some as short as a period of days or weeks, while others lasted decades.


EIGHT ways the world could END!

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A science journalist has identified eight ways the world could end, with lethal biotechnology, Terminator-style robots and nuclear war being the biggest threats to life on Earth. Bryan Walsh, 41, a former foreign correspondent and author from Brooklyn, also addressed climate change, supervolcanoes, asteroids, disease and even aliens in his new book. End Times: A Brief Guide To The End Of The World came after Mr Walsh spent two years looking into the horrific ways the world could face Armageddon. He has assessed both the severity of each disaster, as well as the likelihood of it actually happening. Mr Walsh says: 'I don't want people to feel we're doomed and the world's going to end tomorrow and stuff. 'I want them to see that in each one of these risks, there are things being done, or that we could be doing.


The Yellowstone supervolcano has two magma chambers, say scientists

Daily Mail - Science & tech

A detailed map of the bubbling magma below the Yellowstone supervolcano could help experts reveal when the next deadly eruption may happen. The monstrous volcano - which last erupted around 640,000 years ago - has dual magma chambers. Now, a new computer model has revealed a'transition zone' that may control the movement of magma in these chambers. The new research doesn't currently reveal when the next eruption might happen, but it could help scientists put together predictions in the future. The mammoth volcano blows roughly every 600,000 to 700,000 years, meaning an eruption could be imminent.


12 ways the world could end

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Intelligent computers that take over the world and an incurable virus that kills off the human race might sound like plots worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster - but scientists insist they are real threats. They are just two of the 12 ways the world could end, according to new research. A team from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute and the Global Challenges Foundation has come up with the first serious scientific assessment of the apocalyptic risks we face. Apocalypse:The danger of a supervolcano - one capable of producing an eruption 1,000 times larger than normal - is the amount of aerosols and dust sent into the atmosphere as they could create a'volcanic winter' A few of the scenarios arise from events that are out of our control - such as an asteroid hitting the Earth or the eruption of a supervolcano - but most emerge from human advancements. Some of these developments, particularly those that are technological, have the potential to bring great benefits humans - but could also lead to our demise.