The third round of the 2026 F1 Sim Racing World Championship gets underway on Sunday with drivers set to race at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Toto Wolff has praised Kimi Antonelli’s continued trajectory following the youngster’s second consecutive victory in Japan, though the Mercedes boss also acknowledged that the team need to work on their starts following a “botched” launch for the Italian.
During an eventful weekend at Suzuka, Kimi Antonelli picked up a second consecutive victory – which also earned him a historic championship lead.
How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter's lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth's:
A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. That means the most extreme bolts of jovian lightning carry 10 trillion joules of energy, equivalent to 2400 tons of TNT, or one-sixth the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Based on the rates of flashes seen by Juno, storms on this tempestuous world can unleash the force of multiple nuclear weapons every minute...
The four storms Juno studied were monstrous, says Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the study's authors. There were three flashes per second on average, often emerging from the hearts of storms that are 3000 kilometers across, longer than the distance from New York City to Denver.
The researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope (and photographs from Juno's camera) to track Jupiter's storms with such precision that their radiometer could then pick out individual lightning flashes, according to the article.
"It's just a massive ball of gas. It makes sense that there's very energetic lightning happening," says Daniel Mitchard, a lightning physicist at Cardiff University who wasn't involved with the new study. But confirming such suspicions "is exciting," he says, because lightning plays an important role in forging complex chemistry — including the sort that primordial life is built on.
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A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. That means the most extreme bolts of jovian lightning carry 10 trillion joules of energy, equivalent to 2400 tons of TNT, or one-sixth the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Based on the rates of flashes seen by Juno, storms on this tempestuous world can unleash the force of multiple nuclear weapons every minute...
The four storms Juno studied were monstrous, says Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the study's authors. There were three flashes per second on average, often emerging from the hearts of storms that are 3000 kilometers across, longer than the distance from New York City to Denver.
The researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope (and photographs from Juno's camera) to track Jupiter's storms with such precision that their radiometer could then pick out individual lightning flashes, according to the article.
"It's just a massive ball of gas. It makes sense that there's very energetic lightning happening," says Daniel Mitchard, a lightning physicist at Cardiff University who wasn't involved with the new study. But confirming such suspicions "is exciting," he says, because lightning plays an important role in forging complex chemistry — including the sort that primordial life is built on.
Thanks to Slashdot reader sciencehabit for sharing the article.
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Weak and sick mammal has twice become stuck on a sandbank, with news of the rescue efforts captivating the German public
The fate of a humpback whale stranded in shallow bays off Germany’s Baltic coast hangs in the balance after several rescue attempts.
The roughly 10-metre-long (33ft) mammal appeared weakened and sick on Sunday and was struggling to find a route back to the Atlantic.
Continue reading...Croat failed to win a league match as interim head coach
Had been away from post following death of father
Tottenham have parted company with Igor Tudor after seven games and 44 days in a desperate attempt to halt their slide towards relegation from the Premier League.
According to the club, the decision was mutually agreed. Tudor took one point from his five league matches to leave Tottenham one above the bottom three, the final straw coming in Sunday’s 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest. A previously unthinkable demotion to the Championship would be devastating for prestige and revenues.
Continue reading...BEIROET (ANP/AFP) - De in het Midden-Oosten beroemde American University of Beirut (AUB) verzorgt het onderwijs voor op zijn minst twee dagen enkel online. De Iraanse Islamitische Revolutionaire Garde heeft gedreigd Amerikaanse universiteiten in de regio als doelwit te nemen.
De baas van de AUB, Fadlo Khouri, zegt in een verklaring dat er geen aanwijzingen zijn dat er een directe dreiging bestaat voor de universiteit, maar uit voorzorg blijven de panden maandag en dinsdag dicht. Ze staan aan de kust in het centrum van de Libanese hoofdstad.
De AUB stamt uit 1866 en is een in de VS geregistreerde particuliere universiteit met de voornaamste campus in Beiroet. De AUB was eerder in de Libanese burgeroorlog (1975-1990) doelwit van vooral milities van sjiitische extremisten. Een AUB-directeur werd in 1984 vermoord en circa dertig medewerkers werden in die tijd ontvoerd door milities.
WEVELGEM (ANP) - Wielrenner Jasper Philipsen heeft de Belgische klassieker In Flanders Fields, From Middelkerke To Wevelgem gewonnen. De 28-jarige Belg van Alpecin - Premier Tech was na 240,8 kilometer de beste in de sprint. Het peloton had in de slotfase de vluchters Mathieu van der Poel en de Belgen Wout van Aert en Alec Segaert bijgehaald in de wedstrijd die bekendstaat als Gent-Wevelgem.
Voor Philipsen is het de eerste keer dat hij de Belgische eendagswedstrijd door de Westhoek wint. Hij versloeg de Deen Tobias Lund Andresen en de Fransman Christophe Laporte.
Een kopgroep van acht rijders, met de Nederlanders Frits Biesterbos, Hartthijs de Vries en Wessel Mouris, kreeg enkele minuten voorsprong. Na de tweede beklimming van de Kemmelberg kwam het drietal van Van der Poel, Van Aert en de Belg Florian Vermeersch bij de overgebleven koplopers.
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Op de laatste en steilste beklimming van de Kemmelberg kwam Van der Poel als eerste boven en kon alleen Van Aert volgen. Vermeersch volgde op iets meer dan 10 seconden. Met nog 35 kilometer te gaan naar Wevelgem was ook het peloton, met daarin meerdere sprinters, op ongeveer 40 seconden achterstand nog niet kansloos. Het peloton achterhaalde Vermeersch en had de twee vluchters in het vizier.
Vanuit het peloton ontsnapte de Belg Alec Segaert, die in de slotkilometers nog naar de koplopers toereed. Met iets meer dan een kilometer te gaan werd het drietal bijgehaald en probeerde Segaert het nog eens. De ploeg van Andresen begon de sprint, maar gaf nog net de ruimte aan Van der Poels ploeggenoot Philipsen om naar zijn zestigste profzege en zijn tweede van dit seizoen te sprinten.