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2023-11-13 @ 16.08.52 ∈ In English
(From early 2000s)
2023-11-06 @ 20.33.58 ∈ In English
Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes – DW – 10/31/2023
Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria may be associated with a 97% drop in dengue infections in three cities in Colombia's Aburra Valley. Researchers for the non-profit World Mosquito Program released the results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in late October.
2023-11-06 @ 20.20.54 ∈ In English
Invoking Betteridge’s law of headlines, I predict this will turn out to be correlation without causation.
2023-11-06 @ 18.59.28 ∈ In English
Millions of sterile fruit flies are being dropped on LA to fight an infestation
[Last month, employees stripped dozens of citrus trees in Baldwin Hills of their fruits] as part of an all-out quarantine effort aimed at eradicating one of the most destructive pests in the world: the Mediterranean fruit fly.
2023-11-02 @ 19.33.01 ∈ In English
2023-11-02 @ 19.04.40 ∈ In English
Ornithological society to rename dozens of birds—and stop naming them after people
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday. […] Rather than review each bird named after a person individually, all such birds will be renamed, the organization announced.
2023-11-02 @ 16.56.56 ∈ In English
Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study
Scientists at MIT have made the surprising discovery that light alone can evaporate water, and is even more efficient at it than heat. […] The team named the new phenomenon the “photomolecular effect,” and hypothesized that photons of light could potentially “cleave off” clusters of water molecules near the liquid’s surface.
2023-10-27 @ 18.01.18 ∈ In English
Bed bugs are a global problem, yet we still know little about how they spread
[A statistical model shows a significant peak in bed bug cases around August and September each year.] People assume they travel on luggage, but it's never been proven. My previous work in 2017 [proved] that they aggregate in dirty clothes in the absence of humans.
