Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A sweeping study of U.S. youth sports participation over the past 60 years has found that there has been a significant increase over time in kids playing organized sports—but particularly among more privileged, educated families. A national survey found that about 70% of Americans born in the ’90s and reaching age … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SpaceX launches lately have been pushing the record envelope for booster reflight, but a Starlink launch Tuesday morning rolled out a brand new first stage. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company’s internet satellites lifted off at 9:20 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. … Read more
Tree by tree land clearing for housing, Springfield, Queensland. Credit: Dr. Martin Taylor Australia’s environmental laws are failing to stop high rates of tree clearing to make way for agriculture, development and mining, according to University of Queensland research. Ph.D. candidate Hannah Thomas from UQ’s School of the Environment led a team which used satellite … Read more
by KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. Heterogeneous occurrence of EBLFs in East Asia during the Cenozoic. The earliest occurrence was in southern China during the middle Eocene (A), followed by southwestern China in the late Eocene–early Oligocene (B, C), then Japan in the early Oligocene(C), and finally central-eastern China during the Miocene (D). The precipitation of … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to the U.S. Census Bureau, immigrants made up 13.9% of the total population in 2022. Among them are highly skilled workers who fill critical gaps in high-tech industries as well as those who construct the buildings in which we live and who plant and harvest the foods we eat. Some … Read more
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels At Western University’s Mary J. Wright Child and Youth Development Clinic, I work on a team training future school psychologists. In our work, we encounter parents concerned about their children’s learning on an almost daily basis. When I started my training almost 15 years ago, I was less confident about … Read more
A rocket engine exploded during a test launch at Britain’s new spaceport in northern Scotland, officials said Tuesday, in a setback for the UK’s fledgling space sector. No one was injured in Monday evening’s incident at SaxaVord Spaceport on the remote island of Unst, said the operator, German rocket manufacturer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA). The … Read more
Magma ocean planets that contain water – like the earthlike exoplanet GJ 1214 b in this artist’s concept – will only host a tiny fraction of this water on their surface. The majority of it is stored deep in their interiors. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt We know that the Earth has an iron core surrounded by … Read more
Blue areas represent passive rewilding opportunities where carnivores and herbivores are already present, while the other colors would require reintroductions. Credit: Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.045 Up to a quarter of Europe could be suitable for rewilding, a new analysis has revealed. Restoring wilderness in areas of Scotland, Scandinavia and Spain would help to raise … Read more
POMs. Credit: ICIQ Researchers from the group of Prof. Carles Bo at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) have described a computational methodology that simulates complex processes involving different chemical species and diverse conditions. These processes lead to the formation of nanostructures called polyoxometalates (POMs), with important applications in catalysis, energy storage, biology … Read more
