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NASA at Your Table: Climate Change and Its Ecological Influence On Plant Growth

All over the world, farming methods have been established as a feature of topography, soil type, plant kind, yearly rainfall, and custom. This mosaic of six images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Discharge and Representation Radiometer (ASTER) sensing unit on NASA's Terra satellite shows differences in field geometry and size in different parts of...

Tanzania Gets Moving! Thanks to Stone Age Revolution

Credit: Adrienn Tomor Reaching a clinic, going to school, the marketplace, or work, for many people in rural Tanzania depends on safely traversing a river. Around 40 million people reside in remote areas of the East African country, among the world's poorest economies. High steel and reinforced concrete costs and a fast-growing population suggest the national...

The Recent LG Signature Built-in French Door Refrigerator

LG Electronics revealed its Signature Kitchen Suite built-in french door fridge at KBIS 2022. Characterized by flexibility, precise temperature control, and optimal user experience, the 48-inch ample French-Door fridge is the most recent addition to LG's premium built-in kitchen appliance brand. This LG model is provided with a convertible drawer offering a wide temperature level...

United States Sea Levels Expected to Rise at a Faster Rate Than in Previous 100 Years

According to the most recent projections, sea levels along the United States coastline rise will rise quicker within the following three decades than they did in the previous 100 years, bringing more flooding to coastal cities like New York and Miami. According to a report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea levels...

Did Civilization Rise Because of a Comet Impact?

Credit: Vladislav Tchakarov Human beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human...

Biologists Discover New Insect Species

Neuroterus valhalla is a newly described species of cynipid gall wasp discovered in the branches of a live oak tree near the Rice University graduate student pub Valhalla. Credit: Miles Zhang/Smithsonian NMNH Its name sounds legendary, but the newly uncovered insect Neuroterus (noo-ROH'- teh-rus) Valhalla does not look or act the part. It is barely...

An Electric Jolt Salvages Useful Metals From Waste

When a pulse of current goes through a tube containing coal ash, a flash of light indicates rapid heating. Rare earth elements then become much easier to extract. Credit: BRANDON MARTIN/RICE UNIVERSITY As chemists struggle to discover methods to reclaim important metals from industrial waste and disposed electronics, one group has discovered an answer that...

The Causes of Arctic Winter Warming East Asian Subtropical Cold Damage

IMELTING ICE ON THE ISLANDS OF SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA (BARENTS AND LAPTEV SEA REGION).CREDIT: GABRIELA SCHAEPMAN-STRUB, ARCTIC CENTURY EXPEDITION, 2021 The temps in the Arctic are rising as a result of climate change. According to an international study conducted by UZH experts, Arctic warming causes temperature anomalies and cold damage millions of km distant in East...

Global Elimination of Animal Farming Could Save the Planet

The elimination of all animal agriculture in the following 15 years would severely diminish greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Research into the climatological impacts of raising animals for food implicates that eliminating all animal agriculture has the potentially to considerably change the direction of global warming. The project is a cooperation...

Hungry Yeast Cells Are Microscopic Living Thermometers

This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Membranes are essential to our cells. Every cell in your body is encased by one. And each of those cells contains specialized chambers, or organelles, which are similarly confined by membranes. Membranes assist cells in accomplishing tasks like...