The Life Technology™ News Blog: 09/02/21

Thursday, September 02, 2021

King County in Washington, home to Seattle, will require masks at large outdoor events.

The mandate begins Tuesday, and it applies to residents 5 years of age and older, regardless of their vaccination status. The county is also strongly ...

Vast 'waterworlds' known as 'Hycean planets' could be hosting alien life - Study Finds

Astronomers are hopeful signs of alien organisms outside our solar system will be ... of Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy, in a statement.

Superman's Future Trophy Room Makes The Batcave Look Pathetic - Screen Rant

The presence of these many iconic symbols of time travel could suggest an unconscious desire to turn back the clock, seeing that Superman laments about not ...

Acces PDF The Culture Of Astronomy Origin Of Number - GLEON

The Culture of Astronomy: Origin of. Number, Geometry, Science, Law, and. Religion: Amazon.es: Thomas Karl Dietrich: Libros en idiomas extranjeros. The Culture ...

Here's When to Roll Back COVID-19 Restrictions Without Increasing Cases

New research concludes that the safest way to relieve pandemic restrictions is by tying increased freedom to vaccination rates — and moving too quickly ...

US lawmakers look back and reflect on 9/11 attack - WAVY.com

What the Lehecka? Astronomy Vlog. Latest. Top Local Headlines | September 2, 2021. News / 3 hours ago.

Random: This New Movie About The Moon Crashing To Earth Seems Real Familiar - Nintendo Life

... the way to solve the whole moon-not-being-where-it's-supposed-to-be problem is a combination of music, time travel, and doing small favours for people.

Anatomy of the impact of a protostellar jet in the Orion Nebula - ScienceDaily

The research carried out by a team of astronomers in Spain, Mexico and the United States, led by José Eduardo Méndez Delgado, a doctoral student at the IAC and ...

'Star Trek: Picard' Season 2 Adds Annie Wersching as Borg Queen - Variety

Exactly how the Borg Queen will factor into Season 2 is unknown, but chances are it will involve some manner of time travel. An early trailer for the new ...

Kids at Hope could bring a culture of caring to our beloved community of Apache Junction ...

He speaks of time travel which is another way of explaining the power found in teaching kids to fast forward into the future long enough to imagine what ...

Apple bends, aiming to avoid Big Tech regulation

Apple has unveiled major changes to its app store after years of criticism, as the Silicon Valley colossus tries to stave off a deeper, swelling effort to regulate Big Tech, experts said Thursday.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-apple-aiming-big-tech.html

Natural exposure to wildfire smoke increased pregnancy loss in rhesus macaques

Rhesus macaques naturally exposed to wildfire smoke early in pregnancy had an increased rate of miscarriage, according to new research from the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The work is published online in the journal Reproductive Toxicology.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-natural-exposure-wildfire-pregnancy-loss.html

Making methane from carbon dioxide: Carbon capture grows more affordable

In their ongoing effort to make carbon capture more affordable, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a method to convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane, the primary component of natural gas.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-09-methane-carbon-dioxide-capture.html

Forest fires linked to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths

Setting fire to forest and agricultural land in Southeast Asia to prepare it for cultivation or grazing contributes to an estimated 59,000 premature deaths a year, say scientists.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-forest-linked-tens-thousands-deaths.html

Researcher seeks to mitigate natural hazards with vulnerability in mind

From tropical storms to landslides, the form and frequency of natural hazards vary widely. But the feelings of vulnerability they can provoke are universal.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-mitigate-natural-hazards-vulnerability-mind.html

Diverse landcover boosts yields for major U.S. crops, study finds

Monoculture—or specializing in a single crop, covering larger fields that can be harvested with bigger machines on a simplified landscape—is widely assumed to boost a farm's production capacity. A major study encompassing the mainland United States, however, suggests that the opposite is true. Nature Food published the research.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-09-diverse-landcover-boosts-yields-major.html