137 articles from MONDAY 7.11.2022

How to see tonight’s blood moon total lunar eclipse from Australia and New Zealand

Moon will take on a red hue as light reaching it passes through dust in the Earth’s atmosphereHow to take a good photograph of the November 2022 full blood moon with a phone or cameraGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOn Tuesday evening people across Australia and New Zealand will be treated to a total lunar eclipse, weather permitting. It’s an opportunity...

Should maize farmers in sub-Saharan Africa store or sell their grain?

Many maize farmers in sub-Saharan Africa sell their crop at harvest, often because they need funds to pay expenses. Development agencies often support or sponsor harvest-time loans that encourage farmers to store some of their grain for later sale, on an assumption that its market value will increase in months to come. But that's not a sure bet, as a new University of Illinois study reveals. The...

Rare fossil clam discovered alive

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently been found living at Naples Point, just up the coast from UC Santa Barbara. The discovery appears in the journal Zookeys.

Anthology explores racial inequities during COVID-19 pandemic

Professor Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor and associate professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt, has edited and published "Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic" (New York University Press, 2022), an anthology exploring the countless challenges, racially charged acts, setbacks, triumphs and newfound hope through the eyes...

Artificial intelligence deciphers detector 'clouds' to accelerate materials research

X-rays can be used like a superfast, atomic-resolution camera, and if researchers shoot a pair of X-ray pulses just moments apart, they get atomic-resolution snapshots of a system at two points in time. Comparing these snapshots shows how a material fluctuates within a tiny fraction of a second, which could help scientists design future generations of super-fast computers, communications, and...