Новости за 21.08.2021

Amit Katwala, Wired UK

My mum named me after the Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachan, a suave star of Indian cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, and a reference that was entirely lost on my classmates at school in a very white part of southern England in the early 2000s.

Georgetown University

It's long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now, new research from Georgetown University Medical Center offers surprisingly good news by countering this view.

EurekAlert!

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon's most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon's rock record that covers hundreds of millions of years.

Yale University

The presence of mercury in the world's oceans has ramifications for human health and wildlife, especially in coastal areas where the majority of fishing takes place. But while models evaluating sources of mercury in the oceans have focused on mercury deposited directly from the atmosphere, a new study led by Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at the Yale School of the Environment and published in Nature Geoscience shows that rivers are actually the main source of the toxic heavy metal along the world's coasts.

Ben Van Der Merwe, New Statesman

The devastating wildfires that have swept across the Greek island of Evia over the past week have catapulted this year's European wildfire season to record breaking levels, according to an exclusive New Statesman analysis.

Spencer Roberts, Science 2.0

"Thank you for being a regenerative farmer. We would like to introduce you to the Regenerative Farm Map we've created — you're on it!"

Jacob Sullum, Reason

Like many Americans, I do not like wearing a face mask, which hurts my ears, fogs my glasses, and makes my bearded face itch. And while I think businesses should be free to require face coverings as a safeguard against COVID-19, I am skeptical of government-imposed mask mandates, especially in K-12 schools.

Ricki Lewis, Genetic Literacy Project

simple nasal spray that stops SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks?

Geoffrey Giller, PhysOrg.com

Buildings in the U.S. are responsible for 40% of the country's total energy consumption. By improving the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings, the emissions generated from heating and cooling them could be reduced—preventing thousands of premature deaths every year.

Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times

SAN DIEGO — The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child's fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific.

Karen Kwoh, Inside Science

(Inside Science) -- Life is about making one choice after another. Should you have Italian for dinner or Vietnamese? Should you go camping with your friends this weekend or chill at home with your cat?

Isaac Schultz, Giz

Not much is known about Daspletosaurus, a late Cretaceous theropod that thrived in the forests of North America 75 million years ago. Now, paleontologists have shined a literal light on one of the animal's mysteries, by taking CT scans of two of dinosaur braincases to digitally reconstruct the brains and adjacent structures.

Brandon Specktor, Live Science

The Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way spirals out of our galaxy's center, forming a swooping highway of gas that spans tens of thousands of light-years. This highway is dotted with the headlights of billions of stars, all seemingly moving along the same curvy track. But now, astronomers have found something unusual — a "break" in the arm, slashing perpendicularly through the spiral like a splinter poking through a piece of wood.

Jamie Green, Slate

About 30 years ago, Carl Sagan pointed two different cameras toward the Earth, to see what we could see.

Nadia Drake, National Geographic

Hidden inside the solar system's god of plenty is an unexpected bounty: Saturn's mammoth core, spanning up to 60 percent of the planet's width. The newly measured core, revealed through subtle waves in Saturn's rings, appears to be ice, rock, and gas, blended into a soupy mass with blurry edges.