It’s almost time to airdrop rabies vaccines again
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As Elon Musk plans to shake up mobile industry with Starlink, T-Mobile CEO Peter Osvaldik says that its strategy should be laughed out of the room
Tech News News: Elon Musk wants to shake up the mobile industry with Starlink satellite connectivity. However, one of America's biggest telecom companies, T-Mobile, i.
Quote of the day by David Attenborough: “The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than..."
Nature & Environment News: People often respond more urgently to problems they can see unfolding immediately than to threats that may take years or decades to fully emerge. In a.
Why don't birds fall out of trees while sleeping? The unusual science behind the phenomenon
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Have you ever seen a bird sleeping on a thin tree branch and wondered why it does not fall? While humans may lose their grip when their muscles relax .
Researchers tested 30 nanometre magnetic particles on 94 blood samples; they detected amoxicillin allergy with 98 percent sensitivity, versus about 17 percent for a standard commercial test
Experiments & Discoveries News: A new blood testing platform could make it easier to identify people who are genuinely allergic to amoxicillin, one of the most widely used penicillin.
The US now has weapons in space.
It’s the first official confirmation, delivered by Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink: > “We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.” It’s like the race to build self-improving superintelligence before the other guy does, only with space guns. Meink apparently never saw Gravity.
Arizona’s Apache trout was pushed toward extinction by habitat loss and non-native trout; after decades of recovery it was delisted, and a new barrier protects 22 miles of habitat
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Arizona’s Apache trout has made a remarkable recovery after decades of pressure from habitat degradation, overfishing and introduced trout. The native.
RMIT researchers found a way to turn cigarette butts into bricks; adding 1% waste could cut brick-firing energy use by 10%
Experiments & Discoveries News: Cigarette butts are one of the world’s most common forms of litter, but the researchers have found a way to reuse this waste by incorporating it into .
Sento Segarra, experto en suplementos, aplaude la creatina y aconseja cuál comprar: "Es una carga rápida, es puro valor"
El divulgador afirma que es uno de los suplementos más contrastados y beneficiosos
Michigan scientists covered invasive zebra mussels with weighted lakebed mats and pumped carbon dioxide underneath; after five days, mortality of caged mussels topped 80%
Experiments & Discoveries News: Zebra mussels are small, but their impact on freshwater ecosystems can be enormous. Once established, the invasive shellfish can blanket lakebeds, cro.
In 2013, California began removing millions of purple urchins from barren reefs; seven years later, more than 55 acres of kelp forest had returned
Nature & Environment News: Beneath the waves off Southern California, a once-lush underwater forest had been reduced to something resembling a desert. Kelp that had provided she.
Buscar agua potable en el desierto ya no es imposible: un equipo de científicos ha logrado construir una máquina que genera 35 litros al día sin necesidad de baterías
Este grupo de expertos pertenece a la Universidad de California en Berkeley
Study finds drylands could spread across 40% of Earth's land by 2100, with Australia hit hardest
Parts of Africa are also expected to undergo notable shifts.
EPA to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants
The move would overturn a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring power plants to control planet-warming pollution.
Britain’s wasps are unusually scarce this summer; researchers cannot find enough for experiments, and the few seen are unusually small
Wildlife & Biodiversity News: Britain’s summer is missing one of its most familiar insects. Wasps that usually gather around outdoor food, patrol gardens and become increasingly no.
Italy and wolves: living with a growing population amid myths and alarmism
The latest data put Italy's wolf population at around 3,500 animals spread nationwide, and experts say it has since grown. Amid sightings and scares, what is...
In 2016, a Montana researcher picked up a rock half the size of a golf ball; 10 years later, scans showed dinosaur dung holding the finest feather yet found from the age of dinosaurs
Archaeology & Ancient World News: Sometimes, the most extraordinary discoveries are hiding in things that look utterly ordinary. In 2016, a researcher working in Montana spotted a smal.
Some Myotis bats can live 50 years while close relatives live just 7; sequencing eight species found longevity genes overlapping with cancer and virus defenses
Experiments & Discoveries News: A mouse-sized bat that lives for decades appears to have evolved some of the same biological protections that help it resist cancer and viral disease..