The recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica looks likely to be delayed at least two years by the illegal production of an ozone-destroying gas in China | Continue reading
Fossilised tree roots found in a New York quarry are 386 million years old, making them the remains of the oldest known forest yet | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered remnants of the world's oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York. | Continue reading
Ocean acidification caused by climate change could corrode parts of sharks’ skin, which may impair their swimming | Continue reading
Prolonged exposure to high carbon dioxide (acidified) seawater may corrode tooth-like scales (denticles) covering the skin of puffadder shysharks, a study in Scientific Reports suggests. As ocean CO2 concentrations increase due to human activity, oceans are becoming more acidic, … | Continue reading
How mammals perceive light changes between night and day. Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Helsinki discovered that mice were better at finding a dim light in pitch-darkness in experiments done at night compared to those conducted during the day. The scientis … | Continue reading
Somewhere, a Tennessee Williams play has a half-naked character stomping around. [Photo: Getty] | Continue reading
The fishes’ ability to swim and feed could be compromised | Continue reading
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the U.S. government has the authority to seize the proceeds of Edward | Continue reading
Precision medicine is becoming increasingly important, creating more efficient personalised therapies for each patient and innovative pharmacological developments. In the oncology field, for example, researchers are developing different approaches aimed at directed and controlled … | Continue reading
Which do you prefer, and/or how would you have designed it differently? | Continue reading
Fantastic—love this:Google is giving USO families 6,000 Nest Hubs, which double as digital photo frames that can display photos of loved ones.[YouTube] | Continue reading
Data from new satellite shows the accident should have gotten more attention. | Continue reading
Did you dockerize your Ruby on Rails application already? You definitely should! It simplifies deploying your application a lot. Learn how to create a Dockerfile to build a Docker image for your appli | Continue reading
A comparison of features, security, performance, and limitations of Firefox browser running in isolated sandboxes provided by Flatpak vs. Snap. | Continue reading
Google is announcing Project Connected Home over IP, a new Working Group alongside industry partners such as Amazon, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance (separate from the existing Zigbee 3.0/PRO protocol). The project aims to build a new standard that enables IP-based communication ac … | Continue reading
"We've been taught not to be the story, or divert from our priorities to inform the public and protect the truth. But if we want to continue to reestablish trust with our audiences and re-enforce our industry, now's the time to teach." | Continue reading
"That's left us in a position where we're attracting new audiences but we have no way to build an ongoing relationship with them and eventually ask for their support." | Continue reading
"This is not to say that news images have no obligation to tell the truth, or no informational value — only that their truthfulness and informational value are necessarily situated and contingent rather than absolute." | Continue reading
"My hope for 2020 is that more and more publishers from around the world will look at the growing number of proofs of the concept that digital journalism can be based on a sustainable digital business model." | Continue reading
"One of the things that holds many of us back is that we're beholden to the news more than we're beholden to our communities." | Continue reading
"Sometimes it can be as simple as acknowledging, internalizing, and thoughtfully responding to emails, Facebook messages, and tweets from readers and community members." | Continue reading
"Funding this kind of work is also an easier on-ramp for philanthropic organizations to launch their own journalistic giving, as supporting a whole host of groups with one donation can be a more palatable way to join in." | Continue reading
"The aftermath of the election will represent an opportunity for the news media. In this period where the legitimacy of the media (and democracy itself) will be questioned, newsrooms can help the public process what has happened." | Continue reading
"Collaboration isn't just a cute idea or a nice distraction anymore. People and organizations of all shapes and sizes are finally starting to take it seriously as one of the best ways forward in an industry that remains racked with uncertainty and mistrust." | Continue reading
"Watching Silicon Valley exercise news judgment has been like watching Walter Cronkite try to write code in Python." | Continue reading
A long-term study across the Finnish-Norwegian border in Lapland proved wetland vegetation to be resilient to reindeer summer grazing. The reindeer fence along the national border, built in 1950s, provided a chance to study the long-term effects of reindeer grazing. The study inc … | Continue reading
The science of optics and the fine art of science illustration arose together in Europe, from the early black-and-white color wheel drawn by Isaac Newton in 1704 to the brilliantly hand-colored charts and diagrams of Goethe in 1810. | Continue reading
Full featured drag & drop enabled Vue file upload component with previews and upload progress - safrazik/vue-file-agent | Continue reading
You can scroll down to the punchline if you like, but I want to start by thanking the Mozilla community, contributors, industry partners and colleagues alike, for the work everyone has put into this. Hundreds of invested people have weighed in on our hard requirements, nice-to-ha … | Continue reading
Microbiomes can contain thousands of bacteria species, hinting at the complex ecosystem that houses the microbiome as well as the one contained within the microbiome. Yet, until now, researchers have been limited in the tools they have to precisely compare those microbiomes. | Continue reading
The so-called topological insulators are those materials that are insulators in bulk, i.e., those that do not allow electric currents in their volume, but that are conductors on their surfaces. Unlike the usual conductors, that is, metals, the electric current circulating in a to … | Continue reading
The Camargue in southern France is widely recognised as one of the largest and most biodiverse wetlands in the Mediterranean region. | Continue reading
Netflix has released the first To All the Boys PS I Still Love You trailer, which shows Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky trying a real relationship. | Continue reading
Perhaps you remember the opening scene of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that took place on Privet Drive. A bearded man pulled a mysterious device, called a deluminator, from his dark robe and one by one the lights from the street lamps flew into it. | Continue reading