280 articles from WEDNESDAY 22.7.2020

Scientists flock to mysterious 'blue hole' off Florida's Gulf Coast

Scientists are flocking to Florida’s Gulf Coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425-feet-deep "blue hole" on the ocean floor. The glowing mystery hole, about 155 feet below the water’s surface, is similar to the sinkholes seen on solid land, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Surprisingly, the first reports of blue holes came from fishermen and recreational...

Research explores the link between wages, school and cognitive ability in South Africa

Studies through the decades have linked higher wages to education, with the greatest returns in developing countries. However, the correlation between higher wages and education doesn't always account for an individual's innate cognitive abilities, or the mental processes of gathering and processing information to solve problems, adapt to situations and learn from experiences.

What happens in Vegas, may come from the Arctic?

A cave deep in the wilderness of central Nevada is a repository of evidence supporting the urgent need for the Southwestern U.S. to adopt targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a new UNLV study finds.

Invasive lionfish may be a selective predator

Invasive predators have the capacity to dramatically alter marine ecosystems. The lionfish, a voracious predator native to the Indo-Pacific and now established along the southeast coast of the U.S., the Caribbean and parts of the Gulf of Mexico, has become a growing threat to the ecological balance of Atlantic waters. To gather insight regarding its impact on reef communities, scientists at the...

Lahontan Cutthroat Trout thrive at Paiute's Summit Lake in far northern Nevada

Summit Lake in remote northwest Nevada is home to the only self-sustaining, robust, lake population of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, North America's largest freshwater native trout species. Research to understand the reasons why this population continues to thrive, where others have not, will be used to protect the fish and its habitat—as well as to apply the knowledge to help restore other Nevada...

2,000 years of storms in the Caribbean

The hurricanes in the Caribbean became more frequent and their force varied noticeably around the same time that classical Mayan culture in Central America suffered its final demise: We can gain these and other insights by looking at the climate archive created under the leadership of geoscientists from Goethe University and now presented in an article in Nature journal's Scientific Reports on 16...

Protein Atg40 folds the endoplasmic reticulum to facilitate its autophagy, study finds

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an important part of eukaryotic cells (the type of cells that make up every living thing other than bacteria or viruses, including humans). They are a mass of tubes connected to the nucleus of the cell; the production of both proteins and lipids occur in the networks of the ER. For this organelle to properly function, cells routinely degrade portions of the ER so...

2,000 years of storms in the Caribbean

The hurricanes in the Caribbean became more frequent and their force varied noticeably around the same time that classical Mayan culture in Central America suffered its final demise: We can gain these and other insights by looking at the climate archive.

Narcissists don't learn from their mistakes because they don't think they make any

When most people find that their actions have resulted in an undesirable outcome, they tend to rethink their decisions and ask, ''What should I have done differently to avoid this outcome?'' When narcissists face the same situation, however, their refrain is, ''No one could have seen this coming!'' In refusing to acknowledge that they have made a mistake, narcissists fail to learn from those...

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Passes Flight Readiness Review

Portal origin URL: NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Passes Flight Readiness ReviewPortal origin nid: 462985Published: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 16:04Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission cleared its Flight Readiness Review Wednesday, an important milestone on its way to the launch pad.Portal image: Nose...

Curious Universe Podcast: We're Going to Mars!

We’re going to Mars! NASA’s Perseverance rover will head to Mars this summer to search for signs of ancient life. Christina Hernandez and Mitch Schulte tell us all about Mars Perseverance in this special edition episode of NASA’s Curious Universe. News Article Type: Homepage ArticlesPublished: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 -...

Senior official raised concerns with Alok Sharma over £400m satellite deal

OneWeb went bankrupt this year while trying to develop space network to deliver broadbandThe business secretary, Alok Sharma, overrode the concerns of his senior official when the government took a £400m stake in the failed satellite company OneWeb.The UK is part of a consortium with India’s Bharti Global which won a bidding war for the company, which went bankrupt earlier this year while...