I think with a high mineral content (Yellowstone) you can get fossilization in a much shorter time frame not that that has anything to do with this piece of shit...
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Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
theconversation.com
Not really a new discovery actually, When I was in my silviculture classes of fire behavior in the 90's you could read these actions portrayed in the growth rings, flood years will give wide spaces in the rings, drought years will bring tight rings, and fire seasons (depending on severity) will produce a very dark and stunted ring similar to drought years but will ingest ash as seen in a dark layer on the ring itself. Sometimes you can observe several fires in a season as well. Its very prominent in renewable conifer species in scheduled harvesting units, 2nd and 3rd growth forests, and even deciduous but much more difficult to see in slow-growing hardwoods and riparian species.Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either – and they’ll hold their breath to avoid it
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
don't drink this shit
But what if you are taking baby aspirin?
Epic. So many hours, damn. 4660 code instances of the Doom Pi.
<edit> quick History lesson. I started at Intel February of '94 and got a copy of Doom soon after. We would blow up the Corporate network during the night shift. I worked Shift 6 from 7pm to 7am W, Th, Fri.
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The Trent canal is a cool piece of history, especially if you can go check out the liftmlocks and boat railway things.
Space the Final Frontier
New Technique Removes More Than 98% of Nanoplastics From Water
No one yet knows what threat plastic pollution poses to human health, but the recent realization that we are drinking invisible fragments of plastic along with our water is making many understandably uneasy.
www.sciencealert.com
Not quite science, but science related.
The last image taken by the Cassini probe before it crashed into Jupiter.
The last image taken by the Cassini probe before it crashed into Jupiter.
That probe is a great artist
Unfortunately that’s not true, because it’s cool, but actually that’s an ‘artist’s impression’. Also; wrong gas giant.
FACT CHECK: Is This Cassini’s Last Image before Entering Saturn?
Michael Moody posted an image on Facebook and claimed that it was the last image that Cassini had sent back to earth of Saturn’s atmosphere. NASA has refuted this claim.
Bugger!
Dye in Doritos used in experiment that, like a 'magic trick,' created see-through mice
Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could see through the skin.
www.usatoday.com
'Please save it for me': Scientist carbon dates his own kidney stone to find out when it formed
Kidney stones are an annoying, painful condition that affects many of us, but it's not easy to tell when they form. A scientist who carbon dates objects for a living decided to work out the age of his kidney stone.
www.abc.net.au
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'Please save it for me': Scientist carbon dates his own kidney stone to find out when it formed
Kidney stones are an annoying, painful condition that affects many of us, but it's not easy to tell when they form. A scientist who carbon dates objects for a living decided to work out the age of his kidney stone.
Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
Researchers have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related
news.utexas.edu
Sounds liberal.Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants
Researchers have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly relatednews.utexas.edu
It's cheap, flexible and works indoors. Could this new solar cell replace batteries?
A start-up in regional NSW will be the first Australian company to produce at scale a new type of solar cell that works under artificial light to power devices like keyboards and headphones.
www.abc.net.au
No doubt having already extinguished any practical cooking applications.
breakingdefense.com
France claims world's first space-to-earth laser comms - Breaking Defense
“Others have already demonstrated the proof of concept that a laser link can be established between a satellite and a ground-station but we are proposing an actual product that exists and can be bought off-the-shelf," Jean-Francois Morizur, co-founder and CEO of Cailabs, told Breaking Defense.
breakingdefense.com
What's All This About Earth Having a Temporary Second Moon?
It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Earth's "mini-moon" is here to stay for a couple of months.
www.cnet.com
Speaking of Perú…this might be an O.K. Use for some A.I., or whatever this research is.
www.thisiscolossal.com
An A.I. Model Helped Uncover 303 Previously Unseen Nazca Lines in Peru
Thanks to a new A.I.-trained system, researchers have identified an additional 303 drawings in just six months.
www.thisiscolossal.com
plate tectonics, erosion, crustal uplift. Everest
www.nbcnews.com
Why Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is growing even taller
A river’s shift 89,000 years ago may have added up to 160 feet to Everest’s height through erosion and crust rebound, linking river dynamics to mountain formation in the Himalayas.
"This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory."
The interesting part is that geologists believe there’s a maximum height before the mountains start sinking back into the crust under their own weight.plate tectonics, erosion, crustal uplift. Everest
Why Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is growing even taller
A river’s shift 89,000 years ago may have added up to 160 feet to Everest’s height through erosion and crust rebound, linking river dynamics to mountain formation in the Himalayas.
Arm position during blood pressure check may lead to wrong reading, study finds
Common arm positions during screening can cause a significant increase in the systolic pressure number.
I hope this works
A San Francisco startup, Pembient, is using biotechnology to 3D print fake rhino horns that match the real ones in genetic makeup. Their plan? To flood the Chinese market, where the demand for rhino horns has driven poaching to critical levels, with these synthetic alternatives. By selling these horns at a much lower price, about one-eighth of what poachers would get for real ones, they aim to make poaching less profitable, potentially saving rhinos from extinction.
The CEO, Matthew Markus, claims their lab-grown horns are even purer than those from wild rhinos, free from modern pollutants. Pembient's strategy is innovative, aiming to disrupt the black market by flooding it with affordable, indistinguishable fakes. They're even planning to introduce a beer in China made with this synthetic horn, perhaps to change how the product is viewed culturally.
While this approach could reduce poaching, it also raises questions about promoting the use of rhino horn in different contexts, which might affect conservation efforts in unforeseen ways.
A San Francisco startup, Pembient, is using biotechnology to 3D print fake rhino horns that match the real ones in genetic makeup. Their plan? To flood the Chinese market, where the demand for rhino horns has driven poaching to critical levels, with these synthetic alternatives. By selling these horns at a much lower price, about one-eighth of what poachers would get for real ones, they aim to make poaching less profitable, potentially saving rhinos from extinction.
The CEO, Matthew Markus, claims their lab-grown horns are even purer than those from wild rhinos, free from modern pollutants. Pembient's strategy is innovative, aiming to disrupt the black market by flooding it with affordable, indistinguishable fakes. They're even planning to introduce a beer in China made with this synthetic horn, perhaps to change how the product is viewed culturally.
While this approach could reduce poaching, it also raises questions about promoting the use of rhino horn in different contexts, which might affect conservation efforts in unforeseen ways.
Sperm Whales in the Monterey Bay