Author: Ranveer Kumar
There are certain traits that lend themselves to “revenge bedtime procrastination.” There’s also a way out. AS A SELF-PROCLAIMED night owl, I’m rarely surprised when I lift my eyes from Instagram and see that it’s well past when I intended to go to sleep. Here’s how I explain it to myself: I’ve always stayed up late, and now the only time I get to myself is when my husband and daughter are asleep. Here’s what’s actually going on: I’m procrastinating. Some researchers call this bedtime procrastination or while-in-bed procrastination, while the Chinese word for it translates to “revenge bedtime procrastination.” No matter what…
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is poised to join a growing number of states that have legalized marijuana after state lawmakers reached a deal to allow sales of the drug for recreational use. The agreement reached Saturday, which is expected to be signed into law in the coming days, would expand the state’s existing medical marijuana program and set up a a licensing and taxation system for recreational sales. It has taken years for the state’s lawmakers to come to a consensus on how to legalize recreational marijuana in New York. Democrats, who now wield a veto-proof majority in the…
Poll after poll suggests a large majority of Australians cares about climate change. Yet in recent federal elections, this hasn’t translated into wins for parties with stronger policy platforms on climate change. So what determines someone’s climate change attitude, and how does it translate into voting? In research published today, we studied 2,033 Australian voters’ attitudes across the political spectrum in the context of the 2019 federal election. And we found over 80% said they think it’s important Australia reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This includes close to 70% of conservative voters (those voting for Coalition parties). However, digging deeper reveals nuance to these…
Warming waters are leading to the ‘tropicalisation’ of temperate reefs: gone are the kelp forests, and local fish populations are responding unexpectedly. Scientists studying the effects of tropical fish from the north intruding into reefs off the NSW coast have identified the first victims of ‘tropicalisation’ of temperate waters. But surprisingly, the scientists also found greater diversity and more abundance of fish overall, indicating there are both winners and losers in this global phenomenon attributed to climate change. In the study published this month in Global Change Biology, scientists from UNSW, University of Sydney and the NSW Department of Primary Industries…
One in five Colorado high school students say they have easy access to a handgun, according to a new study published Monday that draws on more than 46,000 student responses across the state, noting that male and older-aged youths, along with youths in rural areas, are most likely to report ease of access. The study’s release coincides with the fatal mass shooting that occurred at King Soopers grocery store last week in Boulder, Colorado. A gunman entered the grocery store armed with military-style weapons, including a handgun, and opened fire, taking the lives of 10 people, including a police officer.…
A new study finds that coffee pulp, a waste product of coffee production, can be used to speed up tropical forest recovery on post agricultural land. The findings are published in the British Ecological Society journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence. In the study, researchers from ETH-Zurich and the University of Hawai`i spread 30 dump truck loads of coffee pulp on a 35 × 40m area of degraded land in Costa Rica and marked out a similar sized area without coffee pulp as a control. “The results were dramatic.” said Dr Rebecca Cole, lead author of the study. “The area treated with a thick layer of coffee…
Abstract 5G has been designed for blazing fast and low-latency communications. To do so, mm-wave frequencies were adopted and allowed unprecedently high radiated power densities by the FCC. Unknowingly, the architects of 5G have, thereby, created a wireless power grid capable of powering devices at ranges far exceeding the capabilities of any existing technologies. However, this potential could only be realized if a fundamental trade-off in wireless energy harvesting could be circumvented. Here, we propose a solution that breaks the usual paradigm, imprisoned in the trade-off between rectenna angular coverage and turn-on sensitivity. The concept relies on the implementation…
Highlights Seaweed farms were efficient in buffering acidification locally. Laminaria japonica showed the highest capacity of 0.10 pH increase within aquaculture area. Deficit in pCO2 in waters in seaweed farms averaged 58.7 ± 15.9 μatm. Dissolved oxygen and Ωarag were also elevated. Abstract Seaweed farming has been proposed as a strategy for adaptation to ocean acidification, but evidence is largely lacking. Changes of pH and carbon system parameters in surface waters of three seaweed farms along a latitudinal range in China were compared, on the weeks preceding harvesting, with those of the surrounding seawaters. Results confirmed that seaweed farming is efficient in buffering acidification, with Saccharina japonica showing the…
Mongabay has released a beta version of a new education site to inspire and inform kids on ecology, wildlife, and conservation. The new site is located at kids.mongabay.com. Mongabay Kids includes environmental news articles, lessons, and activities geared toward specific age groups, from elementary to middle school. The site leverages content from Mongabay’s main news site and extensive library of nature photos. The site’s creators, biologists Megan Strauss and David Brown, spoke with Mongabay about the project. Mongabay has released a beta version of a new education site to inspire and inform kids on ecology, wildlife, and conservation. The new…
The UK’s first re-manufacturing line for high-performance sintered rare earth magnets for use in electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy technologies and low carbon technologies will be developed by the University of Birmingham. The project is part of a £28.5 million investment from the Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to support the creation of a competitive electrification supply chain in the UK. UKRI has awarded the University of Birmingham £4.3 million to establish the plant, which will be located at Tyseley Energy Park (TEP), a research and development facility dedicated to delivering clean energy…