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2024-10-12 @ 16.44.26 ∈ In English

Full moon hazard: 50% rise in wildlife vehicle collisions during moonlit nights

10 years of collision data in Texas [was used] to compare full-moon nights with new-moon nights and their corresponding wildlife-vehicle collisions. Non-wildlife collisions in the same time periods showed no significant differences. […] Previous studies conducted worldwide [have found similar collision trends].

2024-10-12 @ 15.42.02 ∈ In English

Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife | Hakai Magazine

Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.

2024-10-10 @ 12.27.30 ∈ In English

Carefully exposing children to more misinformation can make them better fact-checkers, study suggests

Researchers found that the children who were the most diligent about fact-checking […] claims were also the ones who saw more false claims […] earlier in the study. Meanwhile, those who had more reliable environments with fewer false claims earlier in the study did almost no fact-checking.

2024-10-10 @ 12.17.51 ∈ In English

The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View | Quanta Magazine

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

2024-10-10 @ 12.03.49 ∈ In English

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About World Concert Hall - www.worldconcerthall.com

This is the main reason why World Concert Hall has born: just to facilitate, to select and offer for you every day the best live broadcasts from concert halls and opera houses all around the world.

2024-10-10 @ 11.34.37 ∈ In English

Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.

2024-10-10 @ 11.26.53 ∈ In English

Researchers find dragonfly species with darker wings have evolved to withstand heat and attract partners

Dark wing ornaments cause additional heating of 1°C to 2°C, which roughly equals the increased thermal maxima of ornamented species. Of the species studied, the arch-tipped glider (Tauriphila argo), a tropical species with very dark wing color patches near their core body, could tolerate the highest temperatures.

2024-10-10 @ 11.13.23 ∈ In English

The 2024 Living Planet Index reports a 73% average decline in wildlife populations — what’s changed since the last report?

A guide to understanding the Living Planet Index and what it does and doesn’t mean.

2024-10-09 @ 11.42.23 ∈ In English

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands. […] The decision to transfer the islands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry’s preferred top-level domains: .io.

2024-10-08 @ 11.19.00 ∈ In English

Bias found when drug manufacturers fund clinical trials

Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug’s manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows. […] "The addition of unpublished trials reduces the effect of sponsorship, and most of the sponsorship effect can be explained by publication bias," [says the author.]