119 articles from MONDAY 6.9.2021
Webcam catches meteor lighting up sky over Southampton, England – video
Footage of a meteoroid passing through the night sky has been captured on a webcam by Solent Ships. The footage was recorded at the port of Southampton on Sunday evening just before 11pm and posted on the Solent Ships YouTube channel Continue...
Ethnic studies increases student engagement and high school graduation
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- 21/9/6 21:15
New research shows that enrolling 9th graders who are struggling academically in an ethnic studies course greatly improves the likelihood those students will graduate from high school and enroll in college.
New filtering method promises safer drinking water, improved industrial production
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- 21/9/6 21:14
Researchers create thin film polymer membranes capable of separating fluoride from chloride and other ions. Targeted ion selectivity by the filtering membranes could have important implications for water purification, environmental remediation and industrial production.
Fact-checking works across the globe to correct misinformation
Fact-checking works to reduce false beliefs across the globe, according to a new study conducted in four countries.
New filtering method promises safer drinking water, improved industrial production
A team of scientists at the Tufts University School of Engineering has developed a new filtering technology. Inspired by biology, it could help curb a drinking water-related disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide and potentially improve environmental remediation, industrial and chemical production, and mining, among other processes.
Ninth-grade ethnic studies helped students for years, researchers find
A ninth-grade ethnic studies class has a remarkably prolonged and strong positive impact on students, increasing their overall engagement in school, probability of graduating and likelihood of enrolling in college, according to a new study of a curriculum offered at the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
Study shows how aspen forests maintain the diversity needed to adapt to changing environments
Watching paint dry has nothing on watching a forest grow.
UK vaccine advisers ‘acted like medical regulators’, over Covid jabs for children
Prof Neil Ferguson says JCVI was conservative in rejecting use of vaccines already approved by MHRACoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK’s vaccine advisory group behaved like a medical regulator in rejecting calls for all children aged 12-15 to be offered Covid jabs despite that not being its role, Prof Neil Ferguson has said.Last week the Joint Committee on...
Israel: one-year-old conjoined twin girls see each other for the first time after surgery – video
One-year-old twin girls have looked at each other for the first time after a complex surgery to separate them at Soroka medical centre in Beersheba, Israel. Dozens of experts from Israel and abroad were involved in the preparation and 12-hour procedure. The team used 3D- and virtual-reality models to map the complex operation. This enabled simulations and practice to be undertaken...
Tiny, pink and identical: Giant panda twins born at Madrid zoo
A giant panda gave birth to twin cubs at Madrid zoo on Monday in what officials hailed was a "great contribution" to the conservation of the vulnerable species.
Conservation meet mulls moratorium on deep sea mining
The world's top conservation forum will vote this week on whether to recommend a moratorium on deep sea mining, with scientists warning that ecosystems degraded while dredging the ocean floor 5,000 metres below the waves could take decades or longer to heal.
NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock
NASA has confirmed that its Perseverance rover has succeeded in collecting its first rock sample on Mars.
EXPLAINER: What are some key decisions in fighting fires?
Thousands of wildfires ignite in the U.S. each year, and each one requires firefighters to make quick decisions, often in difficult conditions like high winds and lightning.
Economic cost of climate change could be six times higher than previously thought
Economic models of climate change may have substantially underestimated the costs of continued warming, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.
Miles-long Gulf oil spill after Ida investigated by Coast Guard
Federal authorities are responding to a 14-mile-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico discovered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, according to the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office.
Latinos in labor unions were better protected from job losses during pandemic
Latinos in non-union jobs were seven times more likely than Latinos in labor unions to fall into unemployment during three key months early in the pandemic, according to a new report by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative.
After this desert city faced dry taps, California rushed through emergency water funding
For months, the city of Needles has endured not just scorching hot weather but the possibility that its single water well could fail, a potentially life-threatening risk for this Mojave desert community of 5,000 residents.
Sea-level rise becoming a hazard for South Florida neighborhoods miles from ocean
Sea-level rise may appear to be a problem only for coastal residents, a hazard that comes with the awesome views and easy access to the beach.
Did you solve it? The magic of the Borromean rings
The solution to today’s puzzleEarlier today I set the following puzzle, inspired by the Borromean rings (left), which are three interlocking loops with the property that when you remove any one of them, the other two are no longer linked. In the puzzle everything falls apart when one element is removed. Continue...
Scientists discover the molecular mechanism of black-streaked dwarf virus in rice
Rice viruses are prevalent in many rice-growing countries and often cause serious damages to rice production. Among them, the rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), transmitted by the small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus, causes tremendous losses in China's grain yields every year. Therefore, discovering the transmission mechanism of RBSDV is of immense significance for its effective...
As mysterious disease kills Florida's reefs, a massive 'Noah's Ark' effort tries to save them
In 2014, a mysterious coral disease known as Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease was first identified off Miami. In the years since, it has raged like an underwater wildfire, becoming what some scientists call the worst marine epidemic they have ever witnessed.
Study illuminates origins of lung cancer in never smokers
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- 21/9/6 17:13
A genomic analysis of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking has found that a majority of these tumors arise from the accumulation of mutations caused by natural processes in the body. This study describes three molecular subtypes of lung cancer in people who have never smoked. These insights will help unlock the mystery of how lung cancer arises in people who have no history of smoking...
Metabolic changes in plasma and immune cells associated with COVID-19 severity, can predict patient survival
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- 21/9/6 17:13
After examining the blood samples from nearly 200 COVID-19 patients, researchers have uncovered underlying metabolic changes that regulate how immune cells react to the disease. These changes are associated with disease severity and could be used to predict patient survival.
Hydrogen-burning white dwarfs enjoy slow aging
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- 21/9/6 17:13
Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence suggests that white dwarfs could continue to burn hydrogen in the final stages of their lives, causing them to appear more youthful than they actually are. This discovery could have consequences for how astronomers measure the ages of star clusters.