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How Sensors Using Quantum Entanglement Could Improve Earthquake Detection
One of the scariest things about an earthquake is not how much damage it creates but when and where it will strike next. The start of 2023 has already brought significant tremor activity, with February quakes in Turkey and Syria killing tens of thousands of people. Many experts predict this type of destructive earthquake activity…
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How the Hypercarnivore “Marsupial Sabertooth” Achieved 3D Predator Vision
A reconstruction of Thylacosmilus atrox. Credit: © Jorge Blanco How the “Marsupial Sabertooth” Thylacosmilus Saw Its World Study describes how extinct hypercarnivore likely achieved 3D vision despite wide-set eyes more characteristic of an herbivore than a predator. A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the…
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Environmental injustice closely tied to gender violence, new study argues
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Environmental justice and gender violence may seem like separate issues, but a new paper from a University of New Mexico professor argues that the two are closely linked. Miriam Gay-Antaki, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, recently published “Embodied geographies of environmental justice: Toward the sovereign right…
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Biden protects two giant US wilderness areas
US President Joe Biden established the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada and created the Castner Range National Monument in Texas. President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two giant wilderness areas in Nevada and Texas as national monuments and said a new marine sanctuary could be created in the Pacific. Biden said in a…
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UK food delivery app to axe more than 1,700 jobs
Just Eat Takeaway was created in 2020 after Dutch online service Takeaway.com gobbled up Britain’s Just Eat. Food delivery platform Just Eat Takeaway unveiled plans Tuesday to axe more than 1,700 mostly courier jobs in Britain, as it slashes costs in the wake of huge annual losses. The UK business “is reorganising and simplifying its…
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Strong quake has people fleeing homes in Afghanistan, Pakistan
Residents of an apartment block in the Afghan capital gather outside their home after the quake. A strong earthquake lasting for at least 30 seconds was felt across much of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India Tuesday night, with the United States Geological Survey putting the magnitude at 6.5. “It was a terrifying tremor. I…
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How evaporation and radiation can cool the world
Scientists from Tsinghua University develop an integrated radiative and evaporation cooling technology by using an evaporative hydrogel and permeable radiative cooling layer to achieve cooling. Credit: Nano Research Energy, Tsinghua University Large-scale, effective, and passive: these descriptions are aptly given to the integrated radiative and evaporative chiller (IREC), designed and tested by researchers at Tsinghua…
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First Irish study on the experiences of people who are stalked or harassed
Gender of Respondents. Credit: STALKING AND HARASSMENT: AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPERIENCES IN IRELAND (2023). The first Irish study of those who have been stalked and/or harassed is published today (Tuesday, March 21) and reveals the social, financial and psychological impact upon those who experienced it, while urging a number of recommendations. The University College Cork…
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A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity
The extraterrestrial processes responsible for influencing the diversity of life forms are usually invisible to the human eye. The Milky Way is where large stars explode, leading to supernova remnants whose shock fronts accelerate cosmic ray particles to high energies. Cosmic rays find their way to the solar system, where some collide with the atmosphere…
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Radar system can recognize and track people and objects in room
The polyurethane ceiling unit equipped with four radar modules. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Recognizing when senior citizens are at risk in the home or helping them find misplaced objects they presumed lost: The technology developed in the successful OMNICONNECT project can help people lead independent lives for longer. The researchers of Fraunhofer IZM have integrated a miniature…