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United States Butterflies Monarch Trees Year Acres
- The number of Monarch butterflies hibernating in Mexican forests decreased by 22% last year, and the number of trees lost from their favored wintering grounds tripled, according to an annual report from the National Commission of Protected Natural ... [Read More]

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Shark Goblin Specimen Scientists Daily Beast Pollersp Ouml Ck
- For one group of scientists, this new discovery is a big catch. For others, something fishy is going on. A controversy is raging within the small but fiercely passionate world of ichthyology (the study of fishes). Depending on who you talk to, ... [Read More]


Booster People Vaccines Protection Boosters Covid
- US officials are weighing whether to offer people who are at high risk of severe Covid-19 the chance to get another bivalent booster, according to a source familiar with the deliberations, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized ... [Read More]

Source: cnn.com

Avi Kwa Ame Castner Range Lands Biden Oil Project
- Conservation advocates on Tuesday credited yearslong campaigns led by Indigenous groups and other frontline organizers with pushing President Joe Biden to designate two new national monuments in the southwestern U.S., but they also emphasized that ... [Read More]


Integrals Prof Dr Stefan Weinzierl Dr Xing Wang Dr Sebastian P Ouml Gel Feynman Predictions
- How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle collider experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. To compare the results of these experiments, theoretical physicists need to provide more and more precise predictions based on our current model for the interactions of fundamental particles, the so called standard model. A key ingredient in these predictions are so called Feynman integrals. Recently, a team of the PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence at Mainz University, consisting of Dr. Sebastian ... [Read More]

Source: phys.org

Asteroid Belt Asteroids Ceres Years System Large Dark Asteroids
- C eres is the biggest thing between Mars and Jupiter. But that didn't make it easy to find. Darkly orbiting the sun from within the heart of the asteroid belt, it's long been a spark for scientific imagination. The American astronomer Garrett ... [Read More]

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Quantum Grid Energy Technologies Electrical Grid Oueid
- The Department of Energy is looking into the myriad applications quantum information sciences can have within the transition to a cleaner and more secure energy economy and infrastructure. Speaking during a forum hosted by the Center for Strategic ... [Read More]

Source: nextgov.com

Species Queensland Museum Network Spider Spiders Central Queensland Queensland Museum
- Researchers in Australia have made a big discovery: a super-size species of trapdoor spider found only in Central Queensland. The arachnid has been dubbed Euoplos dignitas — a name "derived from the Latin "dignitas," meaning "dignity" or ... [Read More]

Source: nbcnews.com

Lcd Display Monitors Lcds Leds Light
- LED and LCD are terms used to describe types of display technology. LEDs last longer, while LCD monitors are cheaper. Light emitting diode (LED) and liquid crystal display (LCD) are terms used to describe types of display technology.  LED ... [Read More]


C Auris Cases Fungus Health Care Health Care Facilities
- The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish that has the yeast Candida auris in a Wuerzburg University laboratory in Wuerzburg, Germany on Jan. 23, 2018. There has been a recent rise of cases of seriously ill patients becoming infected with C. auris. A deadly fungus that is resistant to most drugs is spreading at "an alarming rate" in health care facilities across the county, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week. Candida auris, or C. auris, is an emerging fungus that is considered an ... [Read More]

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C Auris Fungus Auris Infections Health Cdc
- The nation's top health officials are sounding the alarm about Candida auris , a deadly, drug-resistant fungus that's spreading rapidly across the United States. Since its first detection in the country in 2016 , the yeast has now expanded  to ... [Read More]


Ice Glacier Water Water Ice Mars Planet
- Scientists have spotted a relict glacier on Mars, near the equator—far from the parts of the planet where water ice is known to exist today. While this leftover glacial structure may not contain any water now, the fact that it exists where it ... [Read More]

Source: gizmodo.com

Quantum Machines Computer Quantum Machines Quantum Computer Nvidia's Grace Hopper
- Nvidia and Quantum Machines , the Israeli startup offering an orchestration platform to controlling and operating quantum processors, today announced the launch of Nvidia DGX Quantum, which combines Nvidia's Grace Hopper Superchip with Quantum ... [Read More]


Plant Host Butterflies Butterfly Size Nectar
- Add a mix of host and nectar plants to provide sustenance and beauty from spring through fall I will never forget when I became hooked on butterflies. It was 2007, my first year working at Powell Gardens in Kingsville, Missouri. Each spring the ... [Read More]


Samples Compounds Asteroid Hayabusa2 Earth Ryugu
- The Hayabusa2 spacecraft spent a year and a half gathering rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Organic compounds essential for life have been discovered in samples collected from a distant asteroid by Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft . The compounds discovered include niacin, which is also known as vitamin B3, and uracil - one of the four nucleobases (nitrogen-containing compounds), that make up RNA , the molecules that contain the instructions of how to build living organisms. "Scientists have previously found nucleobases and vitamins in certain carbon-rich meteorites, but there was always ... [Read More]


Data Market Scientists Report Virus Covid
- Scientists said the coronavirus data included new sequences of the virus and additional genomic data based on samples taken from a live animal market in Wuhan in 2020. Data from the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic has provided crucial information on the outbreak's origins, according to researchers. The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December 2019, with the Huanan live animal market widely suspected to be the source, before it rapidly spread around the world and killed nearly seven million people. This week, scientists published a pre-print report based on their interpretation ... [Read More]

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Scrolls Ink Scans Images Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus Vesuvius Challenge
- The scrolls were discovered in 1752, but fire damage made them too fragile to unroll. Thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists are finally able to read a cache of scrolls incinerated during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79—but to decipher the entirety of the manuscripts, a team led by University of Kentucky computer scientist Brent Seales is offering $250,000 to anyone who can help complete the arduous task. Seales is the lead researcher on a project that has developed an A.I. system powered by a machine-learning algorithm trained to identify ink on the charred ... [Read More]


United States Vaccine Dose March Variant Doses
- The  Coronavirus Resource Center  is continuously updated source where you can find the latest news on COVID-19. Data on vaccination comes from the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Here's the latest data, updated on March 21: Positive tests: 103,801,821 Patient deaths: 1,121,512 Total vaccine doses distributed: 969,633,645 Total vaccine administered: 673,012,265 Patients who've received the first dose: 269,743,532 Patients who've received the second dose: 230,211,943 % of population fully vaccinated (both doses, not including boosters): 69.3% % of population with ... [Read More]


Sky Night Astronomers Nature Earth Pollution
- Astronomers on Monday warned that the light pollution created by the soaring number of satellites orbiting Earth poses an "unprecedented global threat to nature." The number of satellites in low Earth orbit have more than doubled since 2019, when US company SpaceX launched the first "mega-constellation," which comprise thousands of satellites. An armada of new internet constellations are planned to launch soon, adding thousands more satellites to the already congested area fewer than 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) above Earth. Each new satellite increases the risk that it will smash into ... [Read More]

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Test Dr Rhoads Covid Home At Home Tests
- Antibodies used to detect the virus can weaken over time, so results may not be reliable You've got a fever, a cough and feel exhausted — symptoms that are common with COVID-19 . You'd like to take an at-home test, but when you go to grab one from your medicine cabinet, you realize it's expired. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy What should you do? Is it OK to still use an expired COVID-19 test? Are expired COVID-19 tests accurate? ... [Read More]