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Surveying wetlands for infectious bird flu—and finding it

Recently, morning omelets and holiday dinners have gotten more expensive. One likely cause is bird flu, outbreaks of which led to the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys from infection or culling in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Ag.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgNov 15th, 2023

New extended and faint tidal tail discovered

By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS), astronomers have discovered a new tidal tail likely associated with the galaxy NGC 3785. The newly detected tidal tail is extremely extended and faint. The finding was reported.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 30th, 2024

Uranus" moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface, study finds

A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in the company of the few select worlds in our solar sys.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean

There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that group together don't necessarily survive together. In some cases, the more fish there are, the larger a target they make for predators......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 29th, 2024

Iconic Bird of American Horror Stories Faces Its Own Terrifying Fate

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

An Enormous Meteorite, Bird Flu in Washington State and a Troubling Scurvy Case Study

We cover a 3.26-billion-year-old meteorite impact, the spread of bird flu and a scurvy case study that serves as a cautionary tale in this week’s news roundup......»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

We watched 100+ hours of TV to find the best streaming devices

Sometimes, we don’t entirely enjoy spending dozens upon dozens of hours testing certain products. When it came to finding the best streaming devices, however, it … The post We watched 100+ hours of TV to find the best streaming devices ap.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  bgrRelated NewsOct 28th, 2024

Walmart employee looked for her daughter for hours before finding her ‘charred remains’ in the store’s walk-in bakery oven

Walmart employee looked for her daughter for hours before finding her ‘charred remains’ in the store’s walk-in bakery oven.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 25th, 2024

Red-cockaded woodpeckers" recovery in southeast leads to status change from endangered to threatened

The red-cockaded woodpecker, an iconic bird in southeastern forests, has recovered enough of its population to be downlisted from an endangered species to a threatened one, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 25th, 2024

Bird flu hit a dead end in Missouri, but it’s running rampant in California

No new cases in Missouri, but plenty in California and Washington. As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officia.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsOct 24th, 2024

AI-generated news is harder to understand, study shows

Traditionally-crafted news articles are more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. This was the finding of a Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) study that was recently published in the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice,.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 24th, 2024

Tiny airborne particles within air pollution could be a silent killer

Long-term high ultrafine particle concentrations in New York state neighborhoods are linked to higher numbers of deaths. That is the key finding of our new research, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 24th, 2024

Astronomers discover a bright pulse that may be a fast radio burst

Searching for pulsars using the Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope, Russian astronomers have detected a bright pulse at a frequency of 111 MHz, which appears to be a fast radio burst event. The finding was reported in a research paper published.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 24th, 2024

GJPD seeking aid in finding suspects in ‘serious crash’

GJPD seeking aid in finding suspects in ‘serious crash’.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 24th, 2024

Dolphins sense military sonar at much lower levels than regulators predict, study shows

For the first time ever, a team including several UC Santa Cruz scientists have directly measured the behavioral responses of some of the most common marine mammals to military sonar. And the finding that surprised them most was that these animals we.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 23rd, 2024

Ground nesting birds declining faster than any other bird species in Europe

Ground-nesting bird populations are more likely to be in decline than any other European bird species, warns new report......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsOct 23rd, 2024

Discover the Bird That Can Reach Heights of 30,000 Feet

Discover the Bird That Can Reach Heights of 30,000 Feet.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsOct 23rd, 2024

Polar bears are sustaining ice-related paw injuries in a warming Arctic

Polar bears in some parts of the high Arctic are developing ice buildup and related injuries to their feet, apparently due to changing sea ice conditions in a warming Arctic. While surveying the health of two polar bear populations, researchers found.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 22nd, 2024

The whip-poor-will has been an omen of death for centuries. What happened to this iconic bird of American horror?

In one of the most haunting scenes of Stephen King's 1975 novel "Salem's Lot," a gravedigger named Mike Ryerson races to bury the coffin of a local boy named Danny Glick. As night approaches, a troubling thought overtakes Mike: Danny has been buried.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsOct 22nd, 2024

Tracks left by a bird-sized dinosaur suggest it used wings to run faster

A small international team of biologists, geologists and paleontologists has found evidence that a bird-sized dinosaur from the early Cretaceous used its wings to run faster. In their study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsOct 22nd, 2024

CES Picks 2025 Awards - entries open now!

Enter now for early bird pricing for the 2025 CES Picks Awards......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsOct 22nd, 2024