Calculate your neighborhood"s "cognability"
Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age?.....»»
Red supergiant stars bubble and froth so much that their position in the sky seems to dance around
Making a 3D map of our galaxy would be easier if some stars behaved long enough to for us to calculate the distances to them. However, red supergiants are the frisky kids on the block when it comes to pinning down their exact locations. That's becaus.....»»
Peru home build vexed by "the neighbors"—Inca-era mummies
Hipólito Tica had saved for decades to finally build himself a proper house in a working class neighborhood of Lima. His problem was what to do about "the neighbors"—as he called the centuries-old mummies buried below......»»
Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000
City "has no authority to require Comcast" to connect unserved homes. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) When Zachary Cohn and his wife bought a house in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, they didn.....»»
Calculating the "fingerprints" of molecules with artificial intelligence
With conventional methods, it is extremely time-consuming to calculate the spectral fingerprint of larger molecules. But this is a prerequisite for correctly interpreting experimentally obtained data. Now, a team at HZB has achieved very good results.....»»
Google Cloud developer uses AI to calculate 100 trillion digits of pi
Google Cloud flexes computational muscle with latest piu project......»»
Astronomers find "gold standard" star in Milky Way
In our sun's neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively bright star, and in it, astronomers have been able to identify the widest range of elements in a star beyond our solar system yet......»»
Oshkosh envisions work trucks that don"t have to be driven
A new partnership between specialty vehicle manufacturer Oshkosh Corp., which makes U.S. Postal Service vehicles among others, and tech provider Robotic Research explores using automated vehicles on repeatable routes in neighborhood environments......»»
Could Anyone Do Luke’s Plank Flip From ‘Return of the Jedi’?
Let’s calculate whether the lightsaber-catching, Sarlacc-pit-avoiding maneuver can be done by mere mortals or requires help from the Force......»»
A long-forgotten toxic dump site is raising new worries for this Los Angeles neighborhood
In the summer of 1984, investigators peered into a cave dug beneath the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles and found dozens of rusted 55-gallon barrels filled with toxic chemicals......»»
Researchers calculate lost value of landfilled plastic in US
With mountains of plastic waste piling up in landfills and scientists estimating that there will be more plastics by weight than fish in the ocean by 2050, the growing environmental challenge presented to the world by plastics is well understood. Wha.....»»
How to calculate percentages in Excel
Percentages aren't always easy to calculate, but one of the best tools in Excel's toolbox is calculating percentages for you. Here's how to do it......»»
“Implausible:” Zero deaths in Shanghai’s COVID spike spurs skepticism
Low vaccination among elderly and reports of deaths in hospitals raise questions. Enlarge / A worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) collects a swab sample from a resident for a COVID-19 test in a neighborhood placed under lockd.....»»
A billion of the world"s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements. Here"s what they face
Flooding is common in informal settlements in Bwaise, a neighborhood in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Bwaise's residents are largely excluded from planning and local decision-making processes, and have poor housing and limited access to sanitation and.....»»
Calculating the global carbon footprint of space science
A team of researchers at Université de Toulouse has attempted to calculate the entire global footprint of space science, including both ground-based and space-based observatories. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the team su.....»»
Birds of prey populations across Europe suppressed by lead poisoning from gun ammunition: study
Poisoning caused by preying on or scavenging animals shot by hunters using lead ammunition has left the populations of many raptors—or birds of prey—far smaller than they should be, according to the first study to calculate these impacts across E.....»»
Detroit Jeep plant spurs EPA investigation of permit process
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will investigate Michigan's state environmental regulator after residents of a majority Black neighborhood living near a Jeep assembly plant in Detroit filed a legal complaint alleging discrimination. The.....»»
The rat problem in Washington, DC, is so bad, two people got hantavirus
The type of hantavirus is less severe than the one that usually spreads in the Americas. Enlarge / A rat drinks water in a back alley in the Park View neighborhood near a construction site on Saturday, September 10, 2017, in Washington.....»»
Why water inundates a home during one flood but spares it the next
As the floodwaters rose in Southeast Queensland last week, my phone buzzed with texts from friends. We compared this event with the last catastrophic flood of 2011 and tried to calculate whether our homes would be affected this time. I live in Ipswic.....»»
Getting to know local cops could reduce crime rates
Providing residents with information about their neighborhood police officers may reduce crime rates, suggests a Nature paper. The combined results from laboratory and field studies suggest that our sense of anonymity depends not only on what people.....»»
The first Whole Foods with Amazon"s Just Walk Out shopping tech opens in Washington D.C.
Amazon as promised has brought its Just Walk Out technology to a Whole Foods store in Washington D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood......»»