All Stories. Bobby Womack, the legendary soul singer whose career spanned seven decades, died Friday at age 70. A representative for Womack's label XL Recordings confirmed the singer's death to Rolling Stone, but said the cause of death was currently unknown.
The Sun Will Destroy Earth Sooner Than You Might Think. Everything must end. There are plenty of ways Earth could go. It could smash into another planet, be swallowed by a black hole, or get pummelled to death by asteroids. Thereâs really no way to tell which doomsday scenario will be the cause of our planetâs demise. But one thing is for sure - even if Earth spends the rest of its eons escaping alien attacks, dodging space rocks, and avoiding a nuclear apocalypse, there will come a day when our own Sun will eventually destroy us.
After all, photosynthesis is how plants and some organisms use sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water. This is huge, 99.9 percent of the natural productivity on Earth is done by photosynthesis, which requires the sun, Stevens says. And without sunlight, the Earth would get very, very cold. Earth's surface temperature now averages about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, but by the end of the first week without the sun, the average surface temperature would be below the freezing point.