Andean "Viagra": Peru seizes hundreds of frogs used as aphrodisiacs
Peruvian authorities said Thursday they had seized hundreds of endangered frogs from Lake Titicaca that were illegally captured to be used for their purported aphrodisiac properties......»»
Light-based technology is safe and effective for mitigating fungal contamination of cereal grains, study finds
Fungal contamination of cereal grains poses a substantial threat to food security and public health while causing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses annually. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.....»»
Improving hurricane modeling with physics-informed machine learning
Hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, can be devastating natural disasters, leveling entire cities and claiming hundreds or thousands of lives. A key aspect of their destructive potential is their unpredictability. Hurricanes are complex weather phenomen.....»»
In southern India"s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests
Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India's Nilgiris region—a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing o.....»»
B&H slashes M3 MacBook Air with 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD to $1,099
In an epic holiday price cut, B&H has trimmed hundreds of dollars off Apple's upgraded 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with the M3 chip.Grab early Black Friday savings on Apple's M3 MacBook Air.The holiday MacBook Air sale at B&H offers prices as low.....»»
Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn"t
When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. "Legend has it," she said, "John James Audubon really collected the skulls Morton claimed as his own." Her voice.....»»
Astronomers defy the zone of avoidance to find hundreds of new galaxies
There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass so large it is pulling the Milky Way and other galaxies toward it......»»
Ultimate guide on how to use an external SSD as a working drive on macOS Sequoia
It is easily possible to double the cost of a new M4 Mac mini by buying Apple storage — but if you know what you're doing, you can buy external drives, and save hundreds of dollars by working off those. Here's how.External drives are vastly cheaper.....»»
Was "Snowball Earth" a global event? New study delivers best proof yet
Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of millions of years ago, transforming the planet into an icicle floating in space......»»
Restricting cars in cities: A cost-benefit analysis of Low Emission Zones
Faced with unmanageable traffic and health-threatening air quality, hundreds of cities across Europe are adopting measures to reduce the number of vehicles clogging their streets, with the aim of lowering air pollution levels and improving the qualit.....»»
New research reveals how stormy conditions affect albatrosses" ability to feed
Albatrosses are exceptionally mobile and use the wind to travel hundreds of thousands of miles to feed on squid, fish, or other animals found near the water surface in the open ocean. In fact, some larger species of albatrosses are so reliant on the.....»»
Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions
Threat actor exploited account credentials swept up by infostealers years earlier. Canadian authorities have arrested a man on suspicion he breached hundreds of accounts belonging.....»»
B&H launches holiday deals on Apple with discounts up to $600 off
The official holiday 2024 sale at B&H provides bargain hunters with steep savings on MacBooks, desktop Macs, podcasting gear and more.Save hundreds on Apple & more - Image credit: AppleYou can view the full selection of over 100 Apple deals at B&H on.....»»
Best iPhone 16 Pro pictures I’ve seen yet
Last week, we invited the 9to5Mac community on social media to share their best iPhone 16 Pro shots with us. We received hundreds of awe-inspiring replies that showcased the camera system’s capability. Here’s a handful that stood out as the best.....»»
Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines
These are not the the developer tools you think they are. An ongoing attack is uploading hundreds of malicious packages to the open source node package manager (NPM) repository in.....»»
Observations detect hundreds of possible supergiant stars in two nearby galaxies
Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 candidate supergiant stars in the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies. The finding was reported in a research paper published O.....»»
Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened
Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened.....»»
How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away
WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of Campeche......»»
Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says
It’s easy for biased users to bury accurate Community Notes, report says. What's the point of recruiting hundreds of thousands of X users to fact-check misleading posts before t.....»»
Why NASA"s SPHEREx mission will make "Most colorful" cosmic map ever
NASA's SPHEREx mission won't be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be the first to observe them in 102 colors......»»
Learner driver data exposed in worrying breach - thousands affected
A Brazilian driving school kept an unprotected database online, exposing hundreds of thousands of people......»»