Steve Lindsay, a public health entomologist at Durham University, is midway through explaining how dogs might play a role in detecting COVID-19 infections when a decidedly less-well trained canine interrupts our conversation.
“If you’ll excuse me for a minute, I’ve got a naughty black Labrador out in the back garden doing something it shouldn’t be doing,” Lin…
Read moreIt took Bill Nelson 35 years to go from low-Earth orbit to 300 E. St. in Washington, D.C. Low-Earth orbit is where Nelson, then a U.S. representative from Florida, spent six days as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Columbia, from Jan. 12 to Jan. 18, 1986. He returned to Earth and eventually made his way to the U.S. Senate, serving from 2001 to 2019, and spending much of h…
Read moreAs Hurricane Harvey approaches Texas, an old argument has again resurfaced about whether climate change is to blame.
In the past, scientists have had a rather unsatisfying answer for both environmentalists and skeptics, essentially saying that while climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather, no individual event could be attributed to it.
But that may be …
Read moreFor all his triumphs, Harry Potter was seldom more than a “reasonably talented” student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So I’m pleased to report that he can now pad his curriculum vitae with a contribution to new, original research in the peer-reviewed Journal of Personality.
This feather in Mr. Potter’s cap is the result of a p…
Read moreShalyse Olson knows there are risks associated with sending her children back to school during the coronavirus pandemic, but the mother of four in Salem, Oregon says virtual learning “has been nothing but frustrating and sad.”
That’s why she is among parents in several school districts around the country who are demanding a return to in-person, the latest escalation in t…
Read moreCloaked in white dust and surrounded by expansive plains, the town of Lightning Ridge produces the bulk of the world’s precious black opal. This rare gemstone, prized for its dazzling play of color, hides out of sight in the Australian outback beneath a town roughly 450 miles northwest of Sydney. And for more than 100 years, people have come to the Ridge to find their fortune chasing prec…
Read moreIt’s stunning but true that we know more about the surface of the moon than about the Earth’s ocean floorคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Much of what we do know has come from scientific ocean drilling – the systematic collection of core samples from the deep seabed. This re…
Read moreMounting evidence is pointing towards the nerve gas sarin as the chemical behind the attack that killed more than 80 people, including at least 27 children, in Syria’s Idlib province earlier this week.
Early assessments by U.S. intelligence officials, Doctors Without Borders and the U.N. health agency suggested that chlorine gas and traces of sarin were used in the bombing, which Pr…
Read moreIn one sense, Ukraine’s delegation to the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, has a complicated task: to convey to the world the interconnections of war and climate change, the scale of the environmental destruction that Russia’s invasion has unleashed, and the determinedness of this nation of 44 million to carry out its decarbonization goals anyway‚ building b…
Read moreAnd it seems that the number of Black Friday weekend cross-border purchases soared by 545% compared to November’s first weekend. The sales reached a three-week peak late in the month but had started to climb earlier in the month ahead of the main shopping period as retailers started promotions in advance of the day itself.That’s according to the latest data from cross-border e-commerce solu…
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