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Philippine factory activity posts unusual postpandemic decline

MANILA, Philippines — Factory activity in the Philippines slipped into contraction in September, underscoring a rare postpandemic setback for the country’s manufacturers. The Purchasing Managers’ Index, a widely tracked gauge of manufacturing health, fell to 49.9 last month from 50.8 in August, S&P Global said on Wednesday. A reading below 50 signals a decline in activity.

3,000-Year-Old Discovery Reveals Surprising Clues to What May Have Accidentally Sparked the Dawn of the Iron Age

In a fascinating twist of ancient chemistry, copper-smelting artisans may have stumbled upon a technique that would eventually lead to the intentional extraction of iron from ore, a discovery that was both accidental and revolutionary. A fresh analysis of slag, ores, and furnace residues from the 3, 000-year-old site of Kvemo Bolnisi, Georgia, is rewriting the story of how humankind first learned to make iron. A team of researchers from Cranfield University in England, reexamining old finds from Kvemo Bolnisi using modern techniques, suggests that what had once been labeled an early iron-smelting site was actually a copper workshop that utilized iron oxides.

Astronomers detect the first heartbeat of a newborn star

Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe, briefly outshining entire galaxies in a violent flash of high energy radiation. These excuse the pun astronomical detonations release more energy in a few seconds than our Sun will produce over its entire ten billion year lifetime, sending jets of gamma rays [.] The post Astronomers detect the first heartbeat of a newborn star appeared first on Knowridge Science Report.