Month: September 2022
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As health problems stack up, so do serious financial woes, study shows — ScienceDaily
Being in “poor health” is far more than just a saying, according to a new University of Michigan study. In fact, adults’ risk of serious financial problems rises directly with the number of chronic health conditions they have, the study of nearly 3 million privately insured adults finds. They didn’t need to have rare conditions,…
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Fossil finds put gibbons in Asia as early as 8 million years ago
Small-bodied, long-armed apes called gibbons swing rapidly through the trees, far outpacing scientists’ attempts to decipher these creatures’ evolutionary story. Now, a partial upper jaw and seven isolated teeth found near a southwestern Chinese village have added bite to a suggestion that the earliest known gibbons hung out there about 7 million to 8 million…
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The aviation industry needs to overhaul its response to climate change — ScienceDaily
Aviation’s growing impact on the climate crisis requires radical solutions that may upend the industry, according to a new Nature commentary article from the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Globally, the industry generates roughly 1 billion tons of CO2 per year, which is comparable to Japan, the world’s third…
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A La Niña Three-Peat Portends Continuing Climatic Disruption
California’s Mosquito Fire burns to the west of Lake Tahoe (on the right), as seen by the Sentinel 2 satellite on Sept. 16, 2022. With a third winter of La Niña in the forecast, the odds are tipped in favor of continued drought — and more wildfires like this — in the southern portion of…
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Program to increase performance and well-being — ScienceDaily
Am I over the hill? This question comes up regularly among workers over 50. A common prejudice is that older people’s efficiency and stress-tolerance are continuously decreasing. But mental performance, self-confidence, psychological resilience and well-being can be improved in the 50-plus generation. This is shown in a study by researchers from the Section of Developmental…
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This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on sunlight
Quantum tech is going green. A new take on highly sensitive magnetic field sensors ditches the power-hungry lasers that previous devices have relied on to make their measurements and replaces them with sunlight. Lasers can gobble 100 watts or so of power — like keeping a bright lightbulb burning. The innovation potentially untethers quantum sensors…
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NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars – NASA Mars Exploration
The Mars lander’s seismometer has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. NASA’s InSight lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. Not only do these represent the first impacts detected by the spacecraft’s seismometer since InSight touched down on the…
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This 6-inch-long Jurassic creature does a great lizard impersonation
About 150 million years ago, Opisthiamimus gregori crawled around Jurassic-era North America, searching for food alongside more famous dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. It munched on insects and small invertebrates, and, at six inches long, was small enough to fit inside the palm of a modern adult’s hand. This extinct species belongs to the same…
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Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth’s rotation | HeritageDaily
Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries AD to identify five total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean and improve the model of the Earth’s rotation over time Tsukuba, Japan—Witnessing a total solar eclipse is an unforgettable experience and may have been even more impressive throughout history before we were able…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain – NASA Mars Exploration
The latest findings provide greater detail on a region of the Red Planet that has a watery past and is yielding promising samples for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a…