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After years of debate between fire officials seeking total vegetation removal within the first 5 feet of homes and ecologists backing selective landscaping, California proposed a compromise.
More than 80 million people suffer from glaucoma globally , making it the second most common cause of blindness worldwide. The disease caused by elevated internal eye pressure damaging the optic nerve is incurable, but its progression can be slowed with drugs to control eye pressure. Now, researchers have developed an electronics-free smart contact lens that can track the disease in real-time and also deliver drugs in response. The all-polymer lens includes a microfluidic sensor that monitors eye...
Christopher Columbus' origin story has a new genetic twist this time pointing not to Genoa, but to Galician nobility in Spain. A study says DNA from descendants buried in a Seville crypt suggests the explorer's bloodline traces back to Pedro lvarez de Sotomayor, a powerful 15th-century Galician lord better known...
The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.
Mother Jones - 1 day 22 hours agoThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as trees sway to and fro. This oscillation might seem precarious, but it's actually an ancient adaptation: If pines and firs and all the others were perfectly stiff, a […]...
Sitting all day might not be as damaging as once feared if you're willing to move more. A massive study tracking over 72,000 people found that simply increasing daily steps can significantly reduce the risk of death and heart disease, even for those who spend long hours sedentary. Hitting around 9,000 10,000 steps a day delivered the biggest benefits, cutting mortality risk by nearly 40% and cardiovascular disease by over 20%.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 64,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: An alternative to the impact factor in China; the clinical trials of six superretractors'; Retraction Watch goes to Capitol Hill...
Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades.
California's latest invasive-species headache may have arrived not by accident, but by invitation. Genetic testing shows the state's resurging nutria hefty, orange-toothed rodents that tear up wetlands and threaten levees are closely related to a population in central Oregon, not to the nutria that once lived in California before being...
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