Category Archives: Science

Due to best practices, survival rate for babies born at 22 and 23 weeks has improved significantly in the past decade — ScienceDaily

[ad_1] A new study co-authored by a University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) researcher has found that the survival rates of extremely pre-term babies has increased significantly in the past decade. The paper, “Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018,” examined the survival outcomes of 10,877…

Gravity energy storage elevated to new heights

[ad_1] An innovative new gravity storage system with an “elevator” style building design is a viable solution to global grid-scale energy storage. Renewables are projected to increase from its current 12% of the global energy supply to 90% in 2050. Yet the widespread use of renewables is challenged by the intermittency of solar and wind,…

People raised in cities are worse at navigation: study

[ad_1] Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who grew up in the country have a better sense of direction and navigational skills than those raised in cities, a study said Wednesday. To find out how childhood environment influences navigation ability, scientists looked at how almost 400,000 people from 38 countries played a mobile video game designed…

6 probiotic foods to support your gut

[ad_1] Want to know which probiotic foods to eat to improve your health and wellbeing? As well as breaking down foods and absorbing nutrients, the gut has a massive impact on how well the body and mind works. Probiotics are live bacteria in either food or supplement form that can help the digestive system to…

Sexism: When people say ‘people’ online they may mostly be thinking about men

[ad_1] An analysis of 630 billion words published online suggests that people tend to think of men when using gender-neutral terms, a sexist bias that could be learned by AI models Technology 1 April 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Inclusive words used in online text may still be biased Agata Gladykowska/Alamy When people use gender-neutral words…

This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 1 – 9 – Sky & Telescope

[ad_1] FRIDAY, APRIL 1 ■ This is the time of year when the dim Little Dipper juts to the right from Polaris (the Little Dipper’s handle-end) during late evening. The much brighter Big Dipper curls over high above it, “dumping water” into it. They do the reverse water dump in the fall. ■ New Moon…

Beating the Heat in Astrophotography – Sky & Telescope

[ad_1] It’s summertime in the Northern Hemisphere and the news is dominated by stories of record heatwaves around the U.S. Hot weather isn’t good for people (or most animals) and keeping cool can be a tough challenge. As it turns out, our astronomical cameras don’t take the heat well either. Keeping them cool is essential…

Rocket Lab sends two commercial Earth-observing satellites to orbit

[ad_1] Rocket Lab just sent two more private Earth-observation satellites skyward. A Rocket Lab Electron launcher lifted off Saturday (April 2) at 8:41a.m. EST (1241 GMT) from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Pensula. The local time was 1:10 a.m. Sunday morning at the launch site. The two-stage Electron rocket carried two spacecraft…

A Closer Look at the World’s First Pregnant Egyptian Mummy

[ad_1] This story was originally published in our May/June 2022 issue as “Who’s Your Mummy?” Click here to subscribe to read more stories like this one. This ancient Egyptian mummy — long thought by researchers at Poland’s National Museum in Warsaw to be a male priest — kept its identity under wraps for nearly two centuries. Only…

Tsunamis: Magnetic fields could form an early warning system for devastating waves

[ad_1] The movement of seawater in a tsunami generates a magnetic field that travels ahead of changes in sea level, which could help us predict and prepare for it Earth 24 December 2021 By Leah Crane The aftermath of a 2010 tsunami in Chile, which was analysed in the new study International Federation of Red…