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How Dinosaurs Crossed The Oceans
The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, which means dinosaurs must have crossed miles of open water to get there.
Ajnabia odysseus was found in Morocco and dates to the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. Ajnabia was a member of the duckbill dinosaurs, diverse plant-eating dinosaurs that grew up to 15 meters long. But the new dinosaur was tiny compared to its kin - at just 3 meters long, it was as big as a pony.
Microgaster Godzilla: New Species Of Wasp Dives Underwater To Attack A Caterpillar Host (Video)
Recently, during their research work in Japan, Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana of the Canadian National Collection of Insects and colleagues found and filmed the first microgastrine parasitoid wasp to do so.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Been An Environmental Placebo - Low Carbon Investment Could Take Its Place
Some schools and companies say they have done it, but like "sustainability" divestment has so many subjective meanings it is meaningless.
Get Chills When You Hear Music You Like? Thank Your Orbitofrontal Cortex
About half of people report that they get such chills when listening to music.
Death Rates For Hospitalized COVID–19 Patients Fall 18%
Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August.
The first study used data from three hospitals in New York City. The chance of death for someone hospitalized for the coronavirus in those hospitals dropped from an adjusted 25.6% in March to 7.6% in August. The second study, which looked at survival rates in England, found a similar improvement.
Paper Posits That Daily Solar Radiation Is A Key Factor In Epidemics
In the equatorial belt, they happen all year round, at lower levels.
A new numerical model hopes to provide insight. The authors find that both the prevalence and evolution of epidemics are strongly correlated with the amount of daily solar irradiation that hits a given location on the Earth at a given time of the year.
Get Rich Quick By Going On A Nature Hike
Grades, And Artificial Intelligence
If you ask about your grade, I’ll gladly tell you that you’re doing well in the course, or that you really need to do better, as the case may be. More specifically than that I will not say.
The main reason for this is that if I were a hiring manager at a company, the very last thing I would ever think to ask you about would be your grades. When you interview for a job, you should show that you understand the company’s situation, that you have knowledge, skills and experiences that prepare you to do the job, and that your personality and way of working fit the company’s vibe (okay, their “culture”). And that you can clearly articulate these things. All this is so much more important than grades.
It's The Greatest Pumpkin In The Universe, Charlie Brown
What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between the two galaxies. The "pumpkin’s" glowing "eyes" are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes.
The Ethical Reasons For Staying Home, And The Need To Explain Exponential Growth
Swiss Fatalism Is So Endemic They're Not Feeling Worse About The World During The Pandemic
It's a pretty bleak existence but they've bee surrounded by militant Germany, France, and Italy for much of their history. They have forts built into nearly every mountain, compulsory military service and almost as many guns as America. They have been expecting to be overrun for centuries.
By Donating To Sourcewatch, The National Education Association Is Using Teacher Dues To Smear Teachers
Mixed Messaging On COVID-19 Can Erode Trust In Institutions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently revised its guidance to acknowledge that COVID-19 can be spread through tiny airborne particles, known as aerosols. It had earlier removed a similar guidance from its website, saying it was “posted in error.”
Confirmed: New York City's Rampant Coronavirus Outbreak From Not Restricting European Travel
Fact-Checking Joe Biden Science Claims On Energy
Democrats absolutely do oppose natural gas, along with nuclear and even hydroelectric power, so they may have been shocked by his statement. They can rest east. Not only does Biden oppose fracking, despite its benefit to the environment, he believes in lots of other anti-science things that cater to the populism of his base.
Remdesivir Gets FDA Approval As First COVID-19 Treatment
Veklury is the first treatment for COVID-19 to receive such FDA approval but it did get an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on May 1, 2020.
The approval of Veklury was supported by the agency’s analysis of data from three randomized, controlled clinical trials that included patients hospitalized with mild-to-severe COVID-19.
Organic Farming Is Not Compatible With Conservation
The good news; we can do that easily. The bad news; it involves science, and western elites in environmental activism, from Environmental Working Group in the U.S. To Swiss Public Eye in Europe, are never going to allow that without a fight.
COVID-19: Closing Borders And Stopping Traffic Was The Right Move, Argues Paper
Build Your Own Hadron
Hadrons are composite particles made of quarks. The word "hadron" comes from ancient Greek αδρος, which means "thick, bulky". The two hadrons we know best are protons and neutrons, which make up atomic nuclei; but there exist literally hundreds more, which are unstable and decay very quickly after they are created, in subnuclear reactions we can produce using particle accelerators.
Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Triggered Switch To Warm-Bloodedness
The greatest mass extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago, killed 95 percent of life, and the very few survivors faced a turbulent world, repeatedly hit by ice ages, rapid warming and ocean acidification cycles.
Through all of that, two main groups of tetrapods survived; the synapsids and archosaurs, ancestors of mammals and birds. And a new study find that the ancestors of both mammals and birds became warm-blooded at the same time.