Capturing great bird photographs has its own set of challenges. Many beginners wanting to try their hand in bird photography may have a perception that they need to buy an expensive camera and lenses to match. While it is true that the top-of-the-line cameras and premium lenses produce superior results in challenging conditions, still don’t
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Drought in the greater part of western and central Washington and also northern Oregon has ended as storms hit the Pacific Northwest over the last several months. (Photo : Getty Images) Extreme Drought in California Despite the fact that most of California has been suffering from a long-term drought, the state received much-needed rain in
With the climate and biodiversity COPs in progress, one part of the economy increasingly finds itself in the spotlight: food. Our current food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss and accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, spurring businesses and policymakers alike to set targets and take action to make changes
NIU’s claim to fame is its wildly popular smart electric scooters, which have taken off in Asia and continue to post strong sales in the European and North American markets. But the company’s tech has also been making its way into a wider range of lighter electric vehicles too. Now NIU’s upcoming electric bicycle may
The Hypatia stone is one of the weirdest rocks on the planet. It’s not just out of this world, it might be out of this solar system! At 0:54 Reid says “Meteorical Society,” but it should be “Meteoritical Society.” For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ———- Support SciShow by becoming a
Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishowpsych to start streaming Curious Minds: Brain Health. Use code “scishowpsych” to sign up, just $14.99 for the whole YEAR. Our immune systems aren’t just critical to our physical health. It turns out they may play a big role in our mental health, as well. And learning more about how these two aspects
In our attempts to address climate change, 2021 may be one of the most crucial years. A lot has happened in this country and throughout the world, some for the better, some for the worst. Let’s take a look at where we are as the year concludes. (Photo : Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images) Related
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In this article GOOGL MSFT AAPL FB Yves Herman | Reuters 2022 is poised to be the biggest year yet for “the metaverse,” as Facebook parent Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Google gear up to release new hardware products and software services in what so far has been a niche market for early adopters. The “metaverse”
WASHINGTON — NASA is taking a one-day break in the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope after successfully extending booms for the spacecraft’s sunshield. NASA said Jan. 1 it would wait a day before beginning the process of tensioning the five-layer sunshield, getting it into its final form and ensuring the layers are separated
If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), almost all gasoline sold nationwide is required to contain 10 percent ethanol — a fuel made from plant sources, mainly corn. With the recent rise in pump prices,
Aerospace engineers are always looking for newer ways to support their experiments on extra-terrestrial bodies like the Moon and asteroids. One of the main impediments to their work is the lack of energy sources to continue using an equipment for a longer duration. So, MIT researchers are trying a new concept to harness the Moon’s
There have been speculations and discussions regarding what is genuinely out there beyond the earth. If other creatures exist in space, one could wonder what science can do to truly comprehend what is out there. What was the history of the world before monkeys developed into humans? Questions like these and many other more run
Eric LeVine, founder and CEO of CellarTracker, visits the cellar at his Seattle home. Talia LeVine Before there was Facebook, there was CellarTracker. Eric LeVine, a former Microsoft employee who fell in love with wine on a bicycling trip in Italy, created the website for his own use in 2003 and released it to the
A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 PCR test at a free test site in Farragut Square on December 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A Covid-19 outbreak on a cruise in Lisbon. Thousands of flights canceled. Colleges going remote again. It’s a new year but the pandemic continues to cause many
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In this article SPOT Northvolt’s battery factory in the north of Sweden in June. Northvolt Swedish battery maker Northvolt announced Wednesday it has produced its first lithium-ion battery cell at its factory in Skelleftea, meeting its deadline to start production at the plant before the end of 2021. Northvolt, which was valued at $12 billion
TAMPA, Fla. — Advanced Cooling Technologies (ACT) has won NASA funding for thermal control solutions that enable vehicles and other equipment to survive harsh lunar environments without an active power source. The Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based thermal solutions provider said it will use the $5 million NASA Sequential Phase II SBIR Program Award to develop a “toolbox”
In many ways, 2021 was the year that investors and companies stepped up to address climate change, with historic commitments making the front page of newspapers on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for water. Missing from these stories were concrete action plans to address water pollution and scarcity. And just like with
A recent research suggests that 17 million animals died in the disastrous fires in Brazil alone, as a result of climate change. During the devastating wildfires that engulfed the area in 2020, researchers made an effort to determine animal fatality rates. (Photo : Getty Images) Death of 17 Million Animals The study predicts that wildfires
In 2011, Scotland set a target of reaching 100% clean electricity consumption in 2020. And last year, the country almost reached its target – 98.6% of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources, according to the Scottish government’s December energy statement. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 31 December 2021 Activity of convalescent and vaccine serum against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Juan Manuel Carreño 0 , Hala Alshammary 1 , Johnstone Tcheou 2 , Gagandeep Singh 3 , Ariel Raskin 4 , Hisaaki Kawabata 5 , Levy Sominsky 6 , Jordan Clark 7 , Daniel C. Adelsberg 8 , Dominika Bielak 9
A Huawei store in Hangzhou displays the company’s newly launched foldable smartphone, the P50 Pocket, on December 23, 2021. Long Wei | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei said Friday it expects revenue for this year will come in at 634 billion yuan ($99 billion), a 28.9% drop from
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration formally supports extending operations of the International Space Station through the end of the decade, an announcement that is neither surprising nor addresses how to get all the station’s partners, notably Russia, to agree on the station’s future. In a statement published on NASA’s ISS blog Dec. 31, NASA said
In this article TSLA A solar panel is displayed on a wall near signage at the entrance of the new Tesla Inc. showroom in New York. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images While Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would prefer to stay out of politics, and that he opposes all subsidies, his
The Korean government is planning to develop a technology for Korea’s first artificial sun KSTAR to maintain 100 million degrees for 300 seconds by 2026. The 300 seconds is the minimum time required for the commercialisation of nuclear fusion technology. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on December 30 that it held the 16th National