United States – Kettinki

2024-04-12 @ 13.11.30 ∈ In English

Entomological Soc. of America (@entsocamerica@arthropod.social)

Brunneria borealis is the only praying mantis species that always reproduces asexually. Every individual across its U.S. range is female, and a new study finds little genetic variation among them, pointing to a relatively recent introduction. Researchers posit that a single female mantis that could reproduce without a male may be the origin for the entire population of the species in North America.

2024-04-09 @ 18.31.32 ∈ Suomeksi

Jimm’s PC Store myi tuhansia drooneja, jotka saattoivat päätyä Venäjälle

Jimm’s PC Store on myynyt tuhansia drooneja yritykselle, joka tuomittiin puolustustarvikkeiden maastavientirikoksesta. Droonien epäillään päätyneen Venäjälle.

2024-04-02 @ 11.07.11 ∈ In English

Saving a Sea Monkey Sanctuary | Hakai Magazine

If Great Salt Lake were to disappear, an annual five million tonnes of farmed fish and shrimp could disappear with it. That’s roughly equal to the wild seafood the United States and Canada combined manage to catch in a year.

2024-03-25 @ 18.21.54 ∈ In English

More people care about climate change than you think

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

2024-03-19 @ 13.04.11 ∈ In English

There is no EU cookie banner law

You know those modal screens that interrupt your groove when you are surfing? There are no laws forcing websites to use them. They use them because they choose to.

2024-03-12 @ 15.27.41 ∈ In English

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate; we now need to make them available to everyone

The biggest improvements we’ve seen are for longer timeframes. By the early 2000s, 5-day forecasts were “highly accurate” and 7-day forecasts are reaching that threshold today. 10-day forecasts aren’t quite there yet but are getting better.

2024-02-28 @ 15.52.47 ∈ In English

Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds

Their study, published in Nature Communications, shows that in normal listening contexts, we do not actually prefer chords to be perfectly in these mathematical ratios.

2024-02-05 @ 20.10.31 ∈ In English

Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever

[Tropical] bed bugs have turned up in the United States, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, France, Central Europe, Spain — “even in Russia, which would have once been unthinkable,” says [Chow-Yang] Lee, of the University of California, Riverside.

2023-12-21 @ 13.24.32 ∈ In English

At what point does the Santa myth become a harmful deception? | Psyche Ideas

The adults who remembered feeling the worst were at an older age when they learned about Santa, they tended to have found out abruptly, and from another person, rather than figuring it out on their own. Yet a similar number of children, and around 13 per cent of adults, recalled experiencing positive emotions upon learning Santa wasn’t real.

2023-12-14 @ 20.44.29 ∈ In English

Mothers and children have their birthday in the same month more often than you’d think—and here’s why

The phenomenon likely has its roots in relatives sharing socio-demographic characteristics: people of similar backgrounds are known to pair up and to be more likely to give birth at certain times of the year[.]