“As we continue to face into a housing crisis it is frustrating that regulatory, planning and policy arrangements effectively prioritise energy intensive data centres over energy efficient homes for families,” said Steve Turner, executive director at HBF. Source: Read Full Article
Comet 3I/ATLAS is making headlines again, this time for its chemistry. New observations show that the interstellar visitor contains an unusually large amount of methanol, a molecule that rarely appears in comets in our Solar System in such high concentrations. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers measured methanol in the comet’s…
Immune systems in animals, plants, and bacteria often rely on intracellular nucleotide signaling, which viruses can block by sequestering or degrading these signals. We identified structural and biophysical traits shared by diverse viral antidefense … Source: Read Full Article
Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami ravaged parts of the region, caused more than 22,000 deaths and forced as many as 160,000 people to flee their homes, some of them…
A new report shows that nearly 40% of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables tested by California regulators have residues of “forever” or PFAS chemicals, a family of compounds that can be lasting and harmful. The Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., reviewed California’s own test data and found PFAS pesticide residues…
In a new study led by University of British Columbia Ph.D. student Hannah Griebling, raccoons (Procyon lotor) continued manipulating complex puzzle boxes long after retrieving the only marshmallow reward, suggesting the animals seek information for its own sake — a behavior that may underpin their urban success. Multiaccess puzzle box with easy (a), medium (b)…
The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Tuesday in a nine-hour spectacular in which it shot fountains of lava some 1,300 feet into the air, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The eruption generated “significant heat and ash,” USGS said, with some six inches of “tephra”—bits of volcanic material, ranging from glasslike particles…
A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday. The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 p.m. EDT, based on predictions from the U.S. Space Force….
Four new astronauts arrived at the International Space Station Saturday, bringing the lab back up to full capacity after several of their colleagues were forced to leave early last month due to a medical issue. The U.S., French and Russian astronauts and cosmonaut launched from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX rocket Friday for the approximately…
