Pierce’s disease still plagues California wine country
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Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome
A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child who survived beyond 6 years old, adding to evidence that these extinct humans cared for members of their community
How powdered rock could help slow climate change
And from Michigan to Mississippi, farmers are scattering volcanic rock dust on their wheat, soy and corn fields with ag spreaders typically reserved for dispersing crushed limestone to adjust soil acidity.
Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars
Syntrichia caninervis is widespread in some of Earth’s harshest locations, including Tibet and Antarctica, so Xiaoshuang Li at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, China, and his colleagues decided to subject it to a brutal suite of tests to discover just how much it could survive.
‘The beauty of symbolic equations is that it’s much easier to … see a problem at a glance’: How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically
For lots of, the idea of mathematics will certainly restore unlimited hours of solutions and formulas at school. It may seem hard to envision, however there when was a time when math really did not exist. Of course, there was still the need to utilize intricate computations to solve real-world problems, yet it had not...
Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer
Later, physicists realised that the demon could not break thermodynamic laws “for free” because it would spend energy during its particle selection process, but the idea remained of interest because it can naturally occur in biology and has uses in chemistry.
An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River
Flooding from a river shift caused by a similar quake today could threaten up to 170 million people — a number equal to about half the population of the United States — who live in an Illinois-sized area of India and Bangladesh, Chamberlain says.
China’s Chang’e 6 returns with first rocks from far side of the moon
Its landing and collection manoeuvres relied heavily on autonomous processes and robotic tools, although Chinese engineers could send messages to the spacecraft through the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, which launched in March this year and is still in orbit around the moon.
In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is climate change
One heartening example is Innes FitzGerald, a teenage cross-country runner who refused to fly from Britain to Australia for the 2023 World Athletics Championships out of concern for air travel’s carbon emissions (SN: 5/14/20).
Something weird is happening to Earth’s inner core
Similarly, the new study suggests that if a person standing on Earth’s surface could see the inner core — akin to the bus driver looking at the truck — it would seem to be turning in the opposite direction as it was a couple decades ago.
Why antibiotic resistance could make the last pandemic look minor
Our warming world is partly responsible for increasing rates of AMR, with shifting climate conditions around the globe helping bacteria such as Salmonella and cholera-causingVibrio to survive – and evade our current antibiotic weaponry completely.
6 species that scientists got wrong
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