Unusual weather may have helped Ukrainian military sink Russian warship
On 13 April 2022, explosions wracked the Russian guided missile cruiser
Moskva
as it sailed the Black Sea more than 100 kilometers south of the Ukrainian city of Odesa. The vessel, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, sank hours later as it was being towed to port, and Ukraine claimed it had hit the cruiser with missiles. But, how did Ukrainian forces target a vessel they normally couldn’t spot so far over the horizon?
New modeling, published this month in the
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
, suggests
they caught a lucky break
: Anomalous atmospheric conditions ...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 17, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Sets Sights on $2,000 Level After Breaking 200-Day Resistance
price broke out from a 200-day descending resistance trendline yesterday. The ETH price reached a new yearly high of $1,916 today. How long will it continue to increase? Ethereum Finally Clears Resistance The daily time frame technical analysis shows that the Ethereum price had fallen under a…#eth #ethereum #getethereum #ethusddailychart #rsi #bluntzcapital #elliottwave #credibullcrypto #ethusdtdailychart #beincryptos (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thames Water announces it is to consult on axing 300 jobs
Thames Water, the UK’s largest water company, has announced the start of a consultation to remove over 300 roles in order to “reduce costs further and become more efficient”. This could mean over 140 redundancies, and many roles axed through the removal of vacancies.
As the largest union in the employer, UNISON is raising serious concerns about the proposals – for example, whether sufficient analysis has been done on the impact of the job cuts on workloads and whether there have been more vacancies removed over the past month than have been quoted.
The consultation also comes as the company is still working through...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - November 6, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Simon Jackson Tags: Article News redundancy water Source Type: news
Myopia, allergies, sex: some things improve the older you get, say experts
While Adrian Edmondson has thrown away his glasses, studies show other ways older generations mature like a fine wineOne benefit of ageing, according to the actor Adrian Edmondson, 66, is that he has been able to ditch the spectacles he has worn since the age of eight. Age, it seems, has compensated for a myopic youth.“The short-sightedness I had can be seen, if you like, on an increasing graph over time. But as I got this ancient, the long-sightedness of old age has been creeping up from the opposite direction,” he told theMailOnline on Wednesday.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Davies Tags: Ageing UK news Health Neuroscience Society Biology Older people Source Type: news
Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape
Standing on an outcrop of volcanic rock, Joshua Chenoweth looks across the languid waters of California’s Iron Gate Reservoir and imagines the transformation in store for the landscape. In early 2024, operators will open the floodgates on the 49-meter-high dam that blocks the Klamath River, allowing the more than 50 million tons of water it impounds to begin to drain. Once it’s gone, heavy equipment will dismantle the structure. All that will remain of the 11-kilometer-long reservoir that filled the valley for 60 years will be steep-sided slopes coated in gray mud, split once again by a free-flowing river.
Within...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 19, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bed Bugs Aren ’t Just a Problem In Paris. Here’s Why
The news reports are alarming to say the least. Paris, the city known for its style, cuisine, and amour, has a bed bug problem. Video of the insects crawling over Metro seats, in hotels, and swarming buses and movie theaters swept the internet, and bed bug anxiety reached a new high.
But what’s behind the Parisian invasion? How did bed bugs launch such a widespread infestation of the city? With Paris hosting the first Olympics in the post-COVID-19 era next summer, those questions aren’t just matters for idle conversation.
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The reality is that the infestation di...
Source: TIME: Health - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
September Heat Sets ‘ Mind-Blowing ’ Global Temperature Record
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After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday.
Last month’s average temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average for September. That’s the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buon...
Source: TIME: Science - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
WGA & Studio CEOs Near Deal Finish Line, Working On Fine Print
Negotiations between the WGA and studios CEOs on a deal to end the nearly five-month long writers’ strike look within sight. The meeting today at the AMPTP Sherman Oaks office, the parties look to have untangled their stalement over AI and writing room staffing levels. With Netflix’s Ted Sarandos,…#wga #amptpshermanoaks #netflix #tedsarandos #donnalangley #disney #bobiger #warnerbrosdiscoverys #davidzaslav #ellenstutzman (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
News at a glance: Diphtheria treatment shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION
Popular biodiversity app to expand
The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Global polio eradication effort struggles with the end game
In 1988, a collection of health and nonprofit organizations launched a vaccination program to eradicate polio, and the World Health Organization resolved to accomplish this lofty goal by 2000. More than 20 years later, the
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
(GPEI) has yet to cross the finish line. A new,
sharply critical report
issued on 8 September by an independent monitoring board says GPEI is likely to miss yet more deadlines, and faults it for long embracing “a highly positive public ‘almost there’ narrative that was close to magical thinking.”
Through ma...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
How NASA Got a ‘ UFO Czar ’ —And Why it Matters
The real czars may be long gone, but for decades, the White House has been doing a good job of keeping the role—or at least the honorific—alive, appointing a director to oversee a particular task or issue, and bestowing the title along with it. We’ve had the Ebola Czar, the Drug Czar, the Budget Czar, the Climate Czar, and more. Yesterday, at a press conference at NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, the space agency gave the old role a new look, appointing the country’s, and indeed the world’s, first-ever UFO Czar. Only NASA didn’t use either one of those terms.
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Source: TIME: Science - September 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
NASA says UFOs are probably balloons, planes, or solar glints
None NASA said it can't explain what UAP are, but it doesn't think they're from off the planet. • None NASA says the sightings can be explained by earthly phenomena like planes, balloons, and weather. • None The announcement comes from a year-long investigation into how NASA can better study UFOs.…#nasa #uap #nonenasa #pentagon #davidspergel #atlantic #billnelson #nicolafox #uapresearch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Working on a computer for long hours? 5 ways to take care of your eyes
Staring at a screen for hours at a time can take a toll on your eye sight. Let's take a look at how to protect your eyes from screens. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - September 7, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Starfield review – an exquisite, electric, faintly rickety universe of possibilities
Xbox Series S/X, PC; Bethesda/MicrosoftBethesda ’s long-awaited space epic is a vast interstellar canvas full of glorious sights to see and intriguing threads to pull – if you can keep patience with its fussy systemsThere ’s a feeling when you approach your ship, a snug and plucky little star-hopper named Frontier (ofcourse), as it squats on the circular expanse of a landing pad. An inkling of stars pricks through the dusky sky; the hatch hangs invitingly open, a furnace of light spilling from the ship ’s belly on to the tarmac. You stride past your robot butler, who has awaited your return with the infinite patien...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Simon Parkin Tags: Role playing games Culture Space Action games Source Type: news
AI rivals the human nose when it comes to naming smells
When Jonathan Deutsch agreed to sniff 400 vials of unlabeled liquid for science, he didn’t know he would be competing with a computer. A research chef who helps with food product development at Drexel University, he simply welcomed the chance to hone his sense of smell. But odor profiles generated by Deutsch and 13 other volunteers served as a test for a computer program that had been trained to produce these same types of descriptions—such as fruity, cooling, fishy, piny—using chemical structure alone.
The results, reported today in
Science
, show that the program, a so-called graph neural network, i...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 31, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
