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Jianxin is a 5-Star Aero Gauntlet character who is a talented monk and an incredible team member in combat. But who else should you put with her? Here are the best Jianxin team comps in Wuthering Waves. Wuthering Waves: Best Jianxin team comps There are quite a few characters to choose from in Wuthering Waves, and only three characters are allowed per party. This makes it even tougher to choose the right team compositions. Here are some of the best team comps for Jianxin. Main DPS Main DPSSub DPSSupportJianxinAaltoBaizhi If you’re looking to have Jianxin as a main DPS, try putting Aalto as a sub DPS and Baizhi as support. Jianxin, while having a few support skills, can deal consistent Aero damage. This is especially true since Aalto’s Outro skill buffs Jianxin’s Aero DMG and Baizhi’s Outro skill provides an All-Type DMG Deepen, as well as some healing. Jianxin is also good for Aalto since her Outro skill grants Resonance Liberation DMG Deepen t...

Encore is a Fusion DMG monster and a powerful candidate for your primary damage dealer. If you want to overwhelm your enemies with Woolies, here are the best Encore team comps in Wuthering Waves. Encore’s strengths and weaknesses in Wuthering Waves Encore is a deceptively potent attacker and deals a tremendous amount of Fusion Damage. Her kit is also pretty unique as Encore is usually a ranged DPS but swaps to melee while her Ultimate Ability is live. While strong, Encore has several weaknesses. The most glaring fault is she cannot parry with her regular attacks while in non-ultimate form. If you’re fighting dangerous bosses, this can be a big problem.  Many of Encore’s attacks feel too “floaty” for my liking, and I often find it hard to visualize how much damage I’m doing with her. That said, your mileage may vary, and she’s fun to pilot. Best teams for Encore in Wuthering Waves As Encore is strong enough to be ...

There’s a feature in Wuthering Waves that the majority of players don’t know about and yet it’s great for two reasons. This is a PSA to play all your characters’ combat tutorials in Wuthering Waves for rewards. Wuthering Waves allows you to play combat tutorials for rewards Only discovered by a few players online, this is a feature that is both useful and worth the rewards. This is a PSA for all Wuthering Waves players to play all your characters’ combat tutorials, both for rewards and to learn. Screenshot: PC Invasion I’m not talking about those events that grant you four characters to test out for some rewards, although that’s a good thing to do. Head to your Resonators menu and select any of your Resonators. On the bottom right of the screen, you should see the four-squares icon, and to the left of that is a button that looks like a book with a person on the cover. Screenshot: PC Invasion Select that button, and it’l...

This sisters’ magazine surely has a lot of varied content in its pages. Here are all the answers for the Journal of Jinzhou Vol. 2 side quest in Wuthering Waves. How to complete Journal of Jinzhou Vol. 2 quest in Wuthering Waves As the name of this side quest will suggest, Journal of Jinzhoy Vol. 2 is the second part of an ongoing side questline that involves you answering the correct questions asked by Yingzhu and Xingzhu. To unlock this quest you will need to complete Journal of Jinzhou Vol. 1 first and then wait 24 real-time hours – no, waiting in-game won’t do anything. You can find Yingzhu and Xingzhu on the east side of Jinzhou city right outside Huaxy Academy. Screenshot: PC Invasion What will differentiate this volume of the Journal of Jinzhou quests from the previous one is that the questions you get will vary depending on which sister you interact with. Yingzhu has a pool of two questions from which to pick one randomly while Xingzhu only has one...

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Monotremes, now known only from the platypus and a handful of echidna species, were once a much more successful order, with three new species now identified from a single geologic formation. Yet while their diversity has dwindled, the egg-laying mammals appear to be onto a good thing. Indeed, their body design has changed so little in a hundred million years that one of the finds is being referred to as an “echidnapus”.Australia is not the place to live and die if you want the world to remember you millions of years later, being particularly poor in sites suited for creating and revealing fossils. However, the Lightning Ridge opal fields ensure that if your bones are preserved, there is a fair chance they will look absolutely fabulous.Three new species of monotremes have now been identified from 102-96.6 million-year-old fossil deposits at Lightning Ridge, bringing the number of species known from that place and time to six. In some other contexts, six species might be quite modest – but these account for a third of the known genera of monotremes in the 130-million-year history of the order. The site, therefore, is a relative treasure-trove the like of which we have found nowhere else. An added point of interest, Professor Kris Helgen of the Australian Museum told IFLScience, is that no non-monotreme mammals have been found at Lightning Ridge, in complete contrast to the ratio we see today.“Today, Australia is known as a land of marsupials, but discovering these new fossils is the first indication that Australia was previously home to a diversity of monotremes. It’s like discovering a whole new civilization,” said first author Professor Tim Flannery of the Australian Museum in a statement. The highlight of the three discoveries goes by the catchy name of Opalios splendens and has a number of features familiar from surviving monotremes.“Opalios splendens sits on a place in the evolutionary tree prior to the evolution of the common ancestor of the monotremes we have today. Its overall anatomy is probably quite like the platypus, but with features of the jaw and snout a bit more like an echidna – you might call it an ‘echidnapus’,” said Helgen.Appropriately named given publication this month, the second species is Dharragarra aurora, the oldest fossil identified as a type of platypus.Parvopalus clytiei is the smallest of the mammalian fossils at Lightning Ridge, and is known from such limited pieces little can be said about it.Professor Kris Helgen holding up a tiny fossil jaw fragment from which a species has been described, with a giant image of the fossil on the screen behind him.Image Credit: James Alcock / Australian MuseumBoth D. aurora and P. clytiei were on the “toothy to toothless path” monotremes have trodden, having lost at least one of the five molars the first monotreme, Teinolophos trulseri, possessed.The sparse availability of fossil monotremes leaves scientists with a great many questions about why their evolution followed such a different path from other mammals. Back when monotremes and theriiform mammals split, both had to make their way in the exceptionally difficult world dominated by dinosaurs. Many ecological niches were closed to both, particularly those that involved getting large enough to attract unwanted attention.However, when the death of the non-avian dinosaurs, and a great many other species as well, opened a world of opportunities, Theriiformes jumped at it – including literally, by evolving into dozens of kangaroo species. Meanwhile, monotremes hung on, but never seemed to have diversified much.Helgen told IFLScience that five of the six monotreme species found at Lightning Ridge are quite different from each other, based on size and body plan. Given the constraints at the time, that suggests a capacity to diversify. Yet when the world changed 65 million years ago, monotremes didn’t, with modern echidnas and platypuses sticking fairly closely to the structures on display in this deposit. Meanwhile, as he noted, theriiforme mammals; “Vary from bats to whales to kangaroos.”“It seems like a good working hypothesis,” Helgen told IFLScience, that something limits monotreme flexibility, but what that is we don’t know.Equally unknown is why monotremes were able to establish a significant presence in Australia, but not elsewhere. Although they probably never made it to the northern continents, two species of monotreme fossils have been found in South America, yet apparently did not thrive. It’s likely others were in Antarctica, at the time the bridge between the two continents, but logistical difficulties mean we know nothing about them, or how they competed with other mammals.Lightning Ridge is now very hot and dry, but at the time the monotremes flourished was heavily forested and at a latitude similar to Anchorage. It probably still has much to reveal. We only have a single bone or tooth from each of four of the species, suggesting there are probably many more inhabitants we are yet to find.Every monotreme fossil from Lightning Ridge has been opalized by geologists’ standards. Indeed, these fossils have either been spotted by alert opal-hunters noticing something animal-related, or paleontologists going through miners’ waste. However, those described here lack the beautiful mix of colors associated with opals, unlike a dinosaur fossil found in 2013 at the same site.“Opal fossils are rare, but opalized monotreme fossils are infinitely more rare, as there’s one monotreme fragment to a million other pieces. We don’t know when, or exactly where, they’ll turn up,” said Elizabeth Smith, who found the newly described fossils along with her daughter.The three new species are described and named in Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology, along with descriptions of an additional bone from a previously identified species.

Eyes come in just about every form in the animal world – from unusually shaped pupils, to bright colors, and even some animals that have evolved to do without. But what about the creatures that crawl across planet Earth? When you’re used to seeing the world from the safety of a web or from behind a trap door, does it matter how many eyes a spider has?How many eyes does a spider have?Typically, most spiders have eight eyes in four pairs. However some species have six eyes, like the brown recluse spiders, and some have only two or four, or only vestigial remains. Despite having many more eyes that humans, spiders don’t really see all that well. Instead they rely much more on touch and vibrations, and in some cases even smells. It's important to remember that spiders number around 45,000 species and – most importantly – they are not insects but belong to the arachnids, a class of arthropods. Because of this variety, some spiders have evolved excellent vision, while some species have evolved to have no eyes at all.How are spider eyes arranged?Unlike insects, which have compound eyes, spiders have eyes similar to humans but with only a single lens (humans have two), according to Science News.The largest central pair, or sometimes pairs, of eyes that are forward facing are called the primary eyes, known as anteromedial eyes or AME. Unlike something like an owl that can pivot its neck to see a wide field of view, spiders have eyes around their heads to give them a greater field of vision since they don't have a neck to turn. Spider eyes are arranged on the sides of their heads to give protection from predators or to spot prey at different angles. These eyes are called secondary eyes and can be classified as anterolateral, posterolateral, or posteromedial eyes depending on their positioning on the side of the head. A 2017 paper compared diagrams of different eye arrangements, showing the variety within different spider families. Arrangements of spider eyes differ in size, shape, and number depending on the species. This huntsman spider uses vision to actively hunt its prey.Image credit: Kurit afshen/Shutterstock.comWhat does the research on spider eyes say?Scientific research has been done on the eyesight of jumping spiders. They have the typical arrangement of eight eyes in four pairs. However, jumping spiders have one of those pairs slightly enlarged, with two large eyes at the front of their heads and then more eyes around the sides that help detect when something is moving closer to them. Experiments have revealed just how important to the spider these eyes are, and have even found that they can recognize spiders they've met before. Another experiment, this time with with net-casting spiders, revealed why they have such large eyes and even involved a spider blindfold. 

Over the last few months, a small but pretty noticeable change has been creeping into plastic bottles across Europe. No longer is it as easy to throw away the lid: it’s now tethered to the bottle, and it’s all part of preparing for a new rule that’s about to come into force in the European Union (EU).According to the new EU directive, companies are only allowed to sell single-use plastic products with caps and lids – like a drinks bottle – “if the caps and lids remain attached to the containers during the products’ intended use stage.”It’s part of a plan to reduce plastic waste, with the EU saying that “caps and lids made of plastic which are used for beverage containers are among the single-use plastic items that are found the most on beaches in the Union.”That probably won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who’s ever had a drink out of a plastic bottle – we’ve all lost the lid at some point, and they don’t just disappear into the void. By keeping the lid attached to the bottle, it’s hoped that both will end up being recycled instead of polluting the environment.The rule was first announced back in 2018, and it didn’t seem to go down too well with the giants of bottled drinks, like Coca-Cola and Nestlé. Despite this, the EU ended up sticking to its guns, and the directive outlining the change was published in June 2019, effectively setting it in stone. Members of the EU are expected to comply with the new regulations from July 3, though many have spotted bottles with tethered lids in shops for the last few months, both within and outside of the EU. If you’re in the latter, no, you’ve not woken up and missed another referendum – it’s because many drinks that come in plastic bottles are mass-produced. It’d be a major pain in the butt (i.e. expensive) for companies to have to switch between different cap designs for different markets.The appearance of the new lids has been met by consumers with a mixture of praise, confusion, and upset, with some people complaining about finding them difficult to screw back on or getting in the way whilst drinking.  IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites. IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.The EU has set itself a deadline of July 3, 2027, to evaluate the results of the new rule, though whether or not they’ll be taking into account consumers’ opinions is yet to be seen.

South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin could be sitting on a bundle of “invisible gold” reportedly worth up to $24 billion – and one young scientist believes he knows how we can get our hands on it.Witwatersrand in South Africa was the site of a giant Gold Rush in the late 19th century that was so profitable it fueled the founding of Johannesburg. It’s estimated that 40 percent of all gold mined on Earth so far was obtained here, leaving behind vast hills of mining waste known as tailings.Dr Steve Chingwaru, a 26-year-old metallurgist who hails from Zimbabwe, recently carried out research that’s showed the 6 billion tons of tailings around Johannesburg's mines may contain up to 460 tons of so-called “invisible gold”.Gold doesn’t always come in the form of glistening nuggets. Sometimes, tiny quantities of the valuable metal are found locked inside other minerals, not visible to the human eye. This is known as invisible gold.After quantifying the amount of gold locked away in the waste hills of Witwatersrand, Chingwaru’s PhD project looked into a more efficient way of reprocessing tailings dumps to obtain the metal since current methods are pretty ineffective.“Historically, the low concentration of gold inside tailings was considered too low grade to be of value. But now that extensive mining has depleted most of the high-grade concentration of gold, it's becoming unfeasible to mine – some shafts are already reaching 4 km [2.5 miles] underground. Looking for gold in low-concentration sources is becoming more viable," Chingwaru said in a statement.Workers at the Witwatersrand mine in 1888 during the Gold Rush.Image credit: Wellcome Collection (Public Domain)“Typically, they manage to extract just 30 percent of the gold through this process. So, in my PhD research, I asked where the remaining 70 percent is and how it can be safely removed from the pyrite," he explained.Along with being ineffectual, current means of exploiting tailings dumps can be highly damaging to the environment. “When sulphides become oxidised, they produce sulphuric acid, and when that goes into the groundwater, it increases the mobility of several toxic elements. It's a big problem in some parts of Johannesburg where they're scared that their groundwater is becoming polluted by tailings-related acid mine drainage. That's why I'm passionate about highlighting the economic potential, as well as the environmental benefits of reprocessing tailings dumps efficiently,” Chingwaru said.“If you process the pyrite, you are taking out the key cause of acid mine drainage, plus you're getting economic value from it. The process has the potential to recover additional valuable byproducts such as copper, cobalt and nickel, and reduce or even eliminate the heavy metal pollution and acid mine drainage associated with tailings dumping," he added.His research indicates that Johannesburg’s tailings contain a fortune of gold, roughly worth 450 billion South African rand (~$24 billion).The question is whether this novel method is cheap enough to extract the gold and make a profit. Chingwaru said that he’s spoken to several senior people in South Africa’s gold mining business who believe it could be scaled up to become economically viable – and potentially make a significant amount of cash.“They all said that, yes, it would be expensive to extract the gold, but they could still make a decent profit. Especially if the gold price stays where it is,” he told Al Jazeera.