Bubbling carbon dioxide vent discovered on the seafloor off the Philippines
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
Diving hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast of the Philippines, scientists came across a bubbling hotspot of carbon dioxide. And this newly discovered vent might help us predict how coral reefs will deal with climate change, according to a new study.
Bayani Cardenas, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, accidentally discovered this carbon dioxide fountain while researching the effect of groundwater runoff into the ocean environment in the Philippines's Verde Island Passage.
[Read More]Burial that included a racy love goddess inscription held multiple people
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
An ancient Greek cremation burial dating to nearly 3,000 years ago was more crowded than expected, scientists recently discovered. The tomb was thought to hold a single occupant — a child — but new analysis of the tomb’s bones revealed that it instead held the remains of at least three adults.
This could help to explain a longstanding mystery: the presence in the tomb of a cup with a racy inscription that seemed out of place in a child's grave.
[Read More]Energy-Free AC? Heat-Reflecting Wrap Could Cool Without Power
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
A heat-reflecting, futuristic supermaterial that looks like a roll of plastic wrap could one day cool both houses and power plants without using any energy, according to a new study.
Unlike solar panels, the material keeps working even when the sun sets, with no additional electricity. And the plastic wrap is made up of cheap, simple-to-produce materials that could be easily mass-produced on rolls.
"We feel that this low-cost manufacturing process will be transformative for real-world applications,"
[Read More]Gigantic Cambrian Shrimplike Creature Unearthed in Greenland
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
A new filter-feeding giant that trolled the Cambrian seas has been unearthed in Greenland.
The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny shrimplike creatures from the sea, and likely evolved from the top predators of the day to take advantage of a bloom in new foods in its ecosystem, said study co-author Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England.
[Read More]How Do Marriages, Unions and Domestic Partnerships Differ?
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
The ongoing debate playing out in California courtrooms over the validity of Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, has sparked debate over how marriage is defined. In the United States, there are several types of legally recognized monogamous relationships, with some granting couples – gay or straight – more rights than others.
Civil union
Civil unions, also known as registered partnerships and civil partnerships, were first offered in the United States by the state of Vermont in 2000, according to the U.
[Read More]Huge Dinosaur Tooth Found in Spain
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
An allosaurid tooth as long as a tall man's finger has been found in Spain, a researcher said, making it the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur ever found in that country.
Allosauridae, a family of dinosaurs that includes Allosaurus, were predatory, bipedal theropod dinosaurs that lived in the late Jurassic Period, 155 million to 145 million years ago. They had dozens of sharp teeth and huge skulls.
Local residents found the 3.
[Read More]Indiana Jones Crystal Skull Lawsuit Raises Questions of Hoax
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Fernande Dalal
An archaeologist in Belize has filed a lawsuit against the makers of the film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," alleging that the movie profits off references to an artifact illegally stolen from the country.
But the item in question, a real-life crystal skull, may not be a Belizean artifact carved by the ancient Maya people at all, but rather a hoax perpetrated by a self-styled 20th-century adventurer.
[Read More]New Eye Means Hurricane Florence May Get Stronger Before Slamming into the US
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Hurricane Florence's eye wall has grown since yesterday, now measuring approximately 35 to 40 miles (48 to 56 kilometers) in diameter, according to a report issued this morning (Sept. 11) by the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The larger eye increases the storm's stability, "with the potential for some additional slow strengthening over the next 24 hours," Stacy Stewart, an NHC senior hurricane specialist, said in a Facebook Live update.
Hurricane-force winds whip around Florence's larger core, traveling at speeds of at least 74 to 95 mph (120 to 150 km/h) and reaching outward from the eye to a distance of about 40 miles (64 km), NHC Director Ken Graham said in the update.
[Read More]Polar H7: Heart Rate Sensor Review
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Arica Deslauriers
The Polar H7 is a heart rate sensor that measures your heart rate and wirelessly sends real-time information to your phone. The device costs $79.95, and can be used with some of the Polar products, such as the Polar Loop fitness tracker, to add heart rate to the measures the tracker provides, such as number of steps, distance and level of activity.
The H7 can also be used alone with a mobile training app called Polar Beat (available for iOS and Android), which lets you use your phone to do the tracking.
[Read More]Polygamous Marriage May Be Bad for a Man's Heart
Posted on October 19, 2022
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| Patria Henriques
Having more than one wife may cause some serious heartache.
Men who are polygamous face more than quadruple the risk of having blocked heart vessels, compared with men married to one woman, new research suggests.
"We found an association between an increasing number of wives and the severity and number of coronary blockages," study co-author Dr. Amin Daoulah, a cardiologist at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, said in a statement.
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