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Earthquakes continue to shake the east side of the Big Island and at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2018, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Volcano area of the island.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported that the earthquake was not large enough to cause a tsunami for the island of Hawai’i.

Preliminary data indicates that the earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.6 was centered in the vicinity of the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano.

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With a target to halve its huge carbon footprint, the race is on to find new technologies to green the world’s shipping fleet.

Fred Pearce

Thu 3 May 2018 09.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 3 May 2018 11.25 EDT.

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Don’t you wish the world was bigger?

Believe it or not, a time crystal might actually exist, and its likeliest hiding place is within a child’s toy.

Fans of the Marvel cinematic universe might be shocked to know that a ‘time crystal’ does indeed have a basis in reality, but perhaps not so much as to be able to distort time itself.

Rather, the real-life time crystal is a form of matter that ‘ticks’ when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse, differing it from standard crystals.

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So, since technology is only going to advance, the question is: what will be the most coveted skill of the future? In my opinion, it is creativity. Ultimately a computer lacks imagination or creativity to dream up a vision for the future. It lacks the emotional competent that a human being has. Thus, creativity will be the skill of the future.

David Goodall is not terminally ill but wants to die, and resents that he cannot elect to do so in Australia.

Scientists have created an artificial eye that can see better than us.

Urbanist Brent Toderian reflects on which suburbs can be saved and made more walkable.