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San Joaquin Delta in California. Getty ImagesThis hydrologist has a plan to head off a catastrophic flood and sequester carbon in California. The post Inside the ambitious plan to restore peat wetlands in California appeared first on Popular Science.

A bobcat gets ready to walk across a log jam in Oregon. Courtesy Ezmie Trevarrow and Ivan ArismendiStream restoration projects designed to help salmon have unexpected benefits for land animals. The post Watch bobcats, bears, and even birds use fallen logs as bridges appeared first on Popular Science.

Published today in the journal Earth's Future, researchers from UCL, the University of Cambridge and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used a 3D model to explore the impact of rocket launches and re-entry in 2019, and the impact of projected space tourism scenarios based on the recent billionaire space race.

Pondering the question ‘what is non-exercise activity thermogenesis?’ We reveal everything you need to know, including how many calories it burns and how to increase your NEAT

Stan HoraczekWhether it is for YouTube, Twitch, or just hanging with your buddies on Discord, we’ve got the monitors for your content. The post Best monitors for streaming in 2022 appeared first on Popular Science.

The virus is mutating up to 12 times faster than expected.

How body fat is calculated: how to measure body fat and why it’s important

Soda's effervescence comes from processes that super-saturate the liquid with carbon dioxide, which later escapes from the soft drink as tiny, effervescent bubbles.

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

LenovoCheck out these option for ditching the Microsoft and Apple ecosystems. The post Best Linux laptops of 2022 appeared first on Popular Science.

Want a pearly white smile? Here’s what you need to know about the best and worst foods for teeth

A Caesar artillery unit fires during a French exercise. NexterThe 19.5-ton vehicles can shoot and scoot. The post What to know about the Caesars, the gigantic truck-mounted artillery units France sent Ukraine appeared first on Popular Science.

A new image from NASA's HIRISE camera reveals strange 'polygons' cracking open the surface of Mars. It's just a typical sign of spring, scientists say.

Results of multiple and complementary lab analyses of minerals found in samples of material from Antarctica could give scientists a better understanding of the surface and subsurface environment of Mars, and indicate locations of potentially habitable subsurface locations, says a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Elizabeth C. Sklute.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this massive galaxy cluster, called Abell 1351, with its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. Abell 1351 lies in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern hemisphere.

Record floods in southern China this month displaced more than half a million people, while searing heat buckled roads in other parts of the country.

A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said.

Humanity must heal oceans made sick by climate change, pollution and overfishing in order to rescue marine life and save ourselves, experts warned ahead of a major UN conference opening Monday in Lisbon.

NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software.

An innovative scientific instrument, the Compact Color Biofinder, developed by a team of University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researchers, may change the game in the search for signs of extraterrestrial life.

When permafrost thaws, water can flow more quickly through the ground, creating a complex subsurface flow system. Researchers at the Barrow Environmental Observatory in Alaska gained insight into this process by taking daily measurements of the electrical resistivity of the ground. The results show that vegetation and the snowpack that accumulates on the vegetation in winter control the temperatures of the ground and the flow of water in the ground. Where snow accumulates, ground temperatures […]

When the 2020 Labor Day Fires torched more than 300,000 hectares over the span of two weeks in parts of western Oregon and Washington, they devastated communities and put the threat of west-side fires squarely into focus. A new study led by the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station examines the context surrounding the fires and offers insight into the historical role of large, high-severity fires—and the future of wildfires—west of the Cascades.

Migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape over recent decades—according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

Steve Miller, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, and his colleagues have identified the location of several milky seas by using satellite images acquired with the use of specialized day/night band instruments that can perceive bioluminescence from space. Photo Courtesy Steve Miller/Hakai MagazineA chance encounter with a rare phenomenon called a milky sea connects a sailor and a scientist to explain the ocean’s ghostly glow. The post We’re getting closer […]

Even after the Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis, Missouri, continued to keep abortion appointments. Neeta Satam for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesA patchwork of abortion 'trigger laws' will put reproductive healthcare and resources all over the map. The post The reversal of Roe v. Wade breaks the US standard for healthcare appeared first on Popular Science.

It's often said that people who click right away share "chemistry."

Your skin pores are nice roomy homes for these microscopic arachnids. University of ReadingThe good news: They have butts. The bad news: They’re losing genes. The post The mites that breed on our faces are getting clingier by the day appeared first on Popular Science.

From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe world. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

In the largest epidemiologic study of arsenic and birth outcomes to date, researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago and collaborating institutions estimated arsenic levels in U.S. private well water sources by county and compared estimates to documented birth outcomes. They found an association between estimated groundwater arsenic concentration and risk of low birth weight.

Within and upon every human being reside countless microorganisms—the microbiota that help shape and direct the lives of their hosts. A similar phenomenon occurs between people, microbes and the homes they share.

A crescent moon seen during a rare alignment of four planets, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn in Srinagar, India, in April. Saqib Majeed/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesMercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, in the order the universe intended. The post Look up at the sky to see a parade of perfectly aligned planets appeared first on Popular Science.

After last year’s heat crisis, Pacific Northwest emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

US Army / courtesy photoMountains and other natural obstacles can make talking to one another hard. Drones and other aircraft could help. The post Why the US Army wants an ‘aerial tier network’ for better communications appeared first on Popular Science.

Famed seismologist Lucy Jones explains how building methods and quake dynamics interact—and what to do about the problem -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

During the past 10,000 years—the Holocene—human societies became larger and ever more complex. An international team of scientists led by Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) set out to test various theories on what drove this process. According to its analyses of data from Seshat: Global History Databank, the best explanation for the evolution of socio-cultural complexity is a combination of increasing agricultural productivity and the invention, or adoption, of […]

Thirteen states have "trigger laws" that will ban abortion almost immediately.

Mass shootings are a source of shared anguish and outrage among Americans and are becoming more frequent. Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), also known as gun violence restraining orders or "red flag" laws, are designed to help prevent these shootings. Below, UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) experts explain what is currently known about mass shootings, how ERPOs work and the effectiveness of ERPOs in preventing harm to others and self-harm.

As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70% of 10-year-olds unable to understand a simple written text, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, UK government Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), USAID, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This rate was 57% before the pandemic, but now the learning […]

A recent study out of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) found that companies with female board members tend to perform better. The analysis examined the relationship between female board appointments and corporations' financial performance, based on data from about 4.000 Japanese firms collected between 2004 and 2013.

Anthropogenic eutrophication of lake ecosystems is a global problem, especially for some large shallow lakes. But scientists have been unclear why shallow lakes appear prone to eutrophication.

Theoretical scientists have used topological mathematics and machine learning to identify a hidden relationship between nano-scale structures and thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon, a glassy form of the material with no repeating crystalline order.

The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates than with invertebrates. The neural and cognitive complexity of these animals could originate from a molecular analogy with the human brain, as discovered by a research paper recently published in BMC Biology and coordinated by Remo Sanges from SISSA of Trieste and by Graziano Fiorito from Stazione […]

If you find your feet rolling outwards when you run, you need the best running shoes for supination

Consumer sentiment continued its downward trend, falling 14.4% in June, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

Deakin University research has revealed managers' leadership styles could be to blame for their employees' health issues.

With reproductive rights being dismantled, social media companies need to stop propagating lies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards).

Humans have evolved as social animals. From childhood, we are taught the benefits of forging ties and being empathetic as a strategy for survival and mental well-being—or at least that is the ideal.

The migration of carbon atoms on the surface of the nanomaterial graphene was recently measured for the first time. Although the atoms move too swiftly to be directly observed with an electron microscope, their effect on the stability of the material can now be determined indirectly while the material is heated on a microscopic hot plate. The study by researchers at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna was published in the journal Carbon.

A natural small molecule derived from a cypress tree can transport iron in live mice and human cells lacking the protein that normally does the job, easing a buildup of iron in the liver and restoring hemoglobin and red blood cell production, a new study found.