Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on recent increases in cases of coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever. The first study was
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Climate Change Can Increase Valley Fever Rates
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Why some chaos-seekers just want to watch the world burn
Since President Donald Trump took office a few weeks ago, the administration’s frenetic activity, which has included withdrawing from global agreements and slashing slashing federal jobs and funding, has left many people reeling….
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How Algae Can Accelerate Greenland Glacier Melt
Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the growth of algae, which can survive on the surface of the ice. These dark patches also…
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Robotics and AI Institute Triples Speed of Boston Dynamics Spot
About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this…
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Demonstrating a Quantum Edge in a Coloring Game
• Physics 18, s27
A two-player team that shares a pair of entangled particles can outplay a team that uses only classical strategies.
In principle, a modest quantum computer can perform in minutes a computational task…
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Holey Material Enhances Electron Flow
• Physics 18, 42
An array of holes in a 2D material enhances an effect that improves the flow of electric currents.
J. Estrada-Álvarez et al. [1]Swiss cheese conductor. Arrows indicate electron flow patterns… Continue Reading
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How Black Holes Help Stars Form
• Physics 18, 39
In the Phoenix galaxy cluster, the presence of a black hole allows gas to cool, collapse, and form stars at an extremely high rate, in contrast with other clusters where the black hole heats the gas and…
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Coastal erosion threatens ancient city, and many others
A new USC study reveals a dramatic surge in building collapses in the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria, directly linked to rising sea levels and seawater intrusion.
Once a rare occurrence, building collapses in Alexandria — one of the…
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A global dataset of fossil fungi records from the Cenozoic
Data acquisition
Records of Cenozoic fossil fungi were acquired from both online peer-reviewed literature and literature from the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology (JWIP) in the Natural History Museum, London. Miocene-dated fossil records…
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Wealth Gap Impacts Health and Longevity
A new study published in the Journal of Public Health has shown that older adults who are poorer are far less likely to meet dietary and exercise guidelines, and more likely to be depressed, compared to their…
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