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A combination of deforestation and climate change could put most of North America’s lizard species at risk for health problems and population decline. The study highlights the importance of trees as a habitat for the reptiles. Tree cover is predicted to decline in the coming years because of the warmer, drier conditions of Earth’s changing climate.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

In the 1980s, the neuroscientists Bernard Baars and Ilya Sutskever suggested that consciousness was the loudest voice in a chorus of brain processes, all shouting at the same time. In fact, DishBrain was more impressive because nobody gave it a goal to shoot for. It’s not really useful for any complex self-organizing system, but it’s a first step, he says.
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2 years ago Read more at The Atlantic

Scientists highlight impact of pet waste on shellfishing. About a third of the shellfish beds in the state’s seafood capital are closed to harvesting because of high levels of bacteria in Murrells Inlet. A researcher says it’s poop. “Most of the bacteria coming into the estuary is coming from your dogs,” a researcher says.
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2 years ago Read more at Coastal Observer

In 1972 and 1973, NASA launched the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes. They were the first two of five probes to reach the edge of our Solar System. Even more recent probes like Voyager 1 have had their own share of glitches, and sending back data that doesn't make any sense.
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2 years ago Read more at IFLScience

This week a 390-million-year-old forest in England snatches the title for the world’s oldest forest. We investigate all four of Earth’s hemispheres. Subscribe to the IFLScience newsletter for all the biggest science news delivered straight to your inbox.
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2 years ago Read more at IFLScience

Many people believe these sentinel trees are thousands of years old. They are known as “Noah trees” because of some people’s belief that the trees are the source of the olive branch carried by the dove back to Noah’s ark. Scientists have now established a more certain age for several of the trees of Bshaaleh. But one, a behemoth measuring roughly 14 feet in diameter, is more than 1,100 years old.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Camembert and its blander-tasting cousin, brie cheese, have in recent weeks been the subject of headlines and social media posts declaring that the beloved fromages are heading for the grave. The warnings followed a study by the National Center for Scientific Research that said the cheeses are on “the verge of extinction”.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

Dr. Michael Nehls, author of "The Indoctrinated Mind" is a German doctor whose work has been used by Nobel Prize winners. He also has been criticized severely by his peers for other works as "pseudo science"
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2 years ago Read more at WCF Courier

the current Formula 1 aerodynamic regulations have led to teams getting maximum performance by running the cars very close to the ground. This very limited ground clearance leads to needing extremely stiff springs to maintain the low ride heights under the immense downforce that’s trying to compress the springs and tyres, and push the plank and the skids into the track. The total vertical stiffness of a car is not just a function of the suspension springs.
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2 years ago Read more at Motorsport US

Water covers nearly three-quarters of Earth's surface. But how much water lies underground in the planet's crust? In comparison, ice in Antarctica holds about 6.5 million cubic miles of water; in Greenland, about 720,000 cubic miles (3 million cubic km) of water. In contrast, the 2021 study considered groundwater within the upper 6.2 miles (10 km)
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2 years ago Read more at Livescience.com