On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is the trip worth it? A new study published in npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport takes a detailed look at how those decisions show up in ridership patterns across the system, and how…
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I’ve owned Sonos speakers for several years and lived through the horror of the Sonos app overhaul. I’ve used Home Assistant for a similar length of time, and I only just realized how well the two work together. Related These Smart Speaker Brands Collect Minimal Data Google and Amazon already know enough about you. What…
When a road was built through the forest where the orangutans lived in Indonesia’s Sumatra, it split the Sumatran orangutan community in two and lead to fears that inbreeding could cause health implications and eventual extinction. Conservation groups the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS) and Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa, with the help of the government, built a…
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For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic components more active. Now, a team led by Jack Binysh at the University of Amsterdam has found that this idea doesn’t always hold. Source: Read Full Article
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A rare type of sea turtle is on the road to recover at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center in Jekyll Island, Georgia. But this reptile is the offspring of a surprising parent duo: a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station; and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. When most people think about national forests, they imagine vast Western landscapes: Alaska, the Rockies, the Pacific Northwest. But millions of acres of federal woodlands dot the eastern half of…
3D printing strong objects can prove challenging. Tougher filament types cost more, require hardened nozzles, and benefit from things you might not have, like a chamber heater. So what if you could get improved strength and heat resistance from basic filaments like PLA and PETG? It turns out you can, and the process is straightforward,…
In the British TV drama Downton Abbey, many viewers were introduced to eclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy complication, when Lady Sybil had a violent seizure after giving birth. The show brought the disorder into mainstream conversations, but Preeclampsia (PE) has been around long before Lady Sybil’s fictional ordeal took place in 1920, according to a study…
