With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer. A new study looking at Hudson Bay polar bears tries to figure out if they can keep up their roly-poly figure, which is what’s needed…Read whole article here
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Discover how award-winning director Tommy Joyce films in remote locations
Published February 12, 2024 Filmmaker and director Tommy Joyce is no stranger to the extremes of nature. His work has taken him across the world to camp alone 6,700m up a mountain in Nepal, chart the frozen wilderness of the Antarctic Peninsula and negotiate the dust clouds and intense 49C heat of the Sahara Desert....
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The ultimate guide to Kansai by rail
Published February 11, 2024 Home to the country’s first capital, many of Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrines and a hinterland adorned with holy mountains, the region of Kansai not only marks the geographical centre of Japan but also stands as a cultural and historical heartland for the nation. Among its greatest treasures is Kyoto, which...
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Biden won’t face charges on classified docs, special counsel Hur says
President Joe Biden “willfully” retained and disclosed highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, including documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other sensitive national security matters, according to a Justice Department report that nonetheless says no criminal charges are warranted for him or anyone else. The report from special counsel...
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CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
This CyberShake Study 22.12 seismic hazard model shows the Southern California regions, depicted in reds and yellows, expected to experience strong ground motions at least once in the next 2,500 years. Credit: Statewide California Earthquake Center Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational...
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Our Human Ancestors Started Hauling Fish Out of the Water 2 Million Years Ago
It may be a global practice that accounts for a large percentage of protein consumption in many countries, but fishing is perhaps the least intuitive way to get food — most of the time, you can’t even see what you’re looking for. Hunting and gathering make sense, dealing as they do with the terrestrial realm...
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Should repeated police calls be a basis of eviction? DOJ says no.
Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for several decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs, and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free” or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses. Long the subject of...
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Arterial pulses link heart-brain oscillations | Science
A central baroreceptor monitors arterial pressure to modulate brain activity…Read whole article here
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SiriGPT? Tim Cook confirms Apple’s gen AI push for iOS 18
Image: Apple/Foundry 2024 is shaping up to be a landmark year for Apple. The Apple Vision Pro started shipping today, and it’s not just a new product, it’s a whole new computing platform for the company. So, what else could happen that would solidify 2024 as a landmark year for Apple? It’s AI, based on...
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Meteorites from Asteroid 2024 Bx1, which just hit Earth, may be super-rare space rocks
The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Right in the image is team lead Lutz Hecht, while guide SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens shows the fragment discovered by student Dominique Dieter left of him. Far left is student Clara Weihe who found the second meteorite. (Image...