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Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers and then into the environment. Urban planners have been doing it for centuries, treating stormwater as a nuisance to be diverted away as quickly as possible to avoid flooding. Not only is that a waste of free water, it’s an increasingly precarious strategy, as climate change worsens droughts but also supercharges storms, dumping ever more rainfall on scabby, impervious cities.Urban areas in the…

Palworld players can seem a little obsessed with the idea of breeding the perfect Pals; hundreds of cakes resulting in hundreds of Eggs to pass down the perfect Passive Traits for a chosen purpose. For the most part, these desired Passive Traits are ones that boost mount speed.  Jetragon is, by a mile, the fastest flying mount in the game at a basic level – boasting a speed stat of 3300 with no additional Passive Traits. That isn’t exactly a secret within the Palworld community. But with Traits such as Swift or Runner,…

New research identifies vanadium as a promising element for carbon capture, thanks to its balanced reactivity and the ability of vanadium peroxide molecules to bind carbon dioxide efficiently. This work contributes to the global effort to develop direct air capture technologies, offering a new avenue for reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and mitigating climate change.A chemical element so visually striking that it was named for a goddess shows a “Goldilocks” level of reactivity – neither too much nor too little – that…

Windsor, Ont.-born photographer Brandon Broderick drives tens of thousands of kilometres each year, crisscrossing the backwoods of British Columbia and capturing photos of beautiful, but elusive, wild animals.  All of that hard work paid off this week when Broderick was named the Canadian Geographic's Photographer of the Year for 2023. "My knees buckled. I almost fell to the floor. It was quite an email to receive," said Broderick, 37. "When I got that email that said I won the whole thing, that was surreal. It still…

by Tilo Arnhold, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V. Retrieval of globally representative aerosol hygroscopicity parameters for organic particulate matter, κorg, and inorganic ions, κinorg, based on cloud condensation nuclei measurements worldwide. Retrieval of κorg = 0.12 ± 0.02 and κinorg = 0.63 ± 0.01 from linear bivariate regression fits of experimentally derived organic mass fraction, ϵorg, and…

Indian user data on realme smartphones is being sent to China? That is what is being asked in a tweet by an Indian Twitter user and adding heft to that tweet was the reaction from Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who said that the government will take a look at it. The reaction followed quickly on the heels of a tweet by Twitter user Rishi Bagree, which said, "Realme's smartphone has a feature (Enhanced Intelligent Services) that captures the user's data (call logs, SMS, and location info) and it is "On" by…

Global seaweed harvest. Maps of G-MACMODS annual potential harvest per unit area (b, c) of the preferred seaweed group (the type with the largest harvest in each grid cell; f, g). While G-MACMODS estimates biomass, we assume that carbon constitutes 30% of seaweed dry weight. White boxes correspond to regions depicted in Fig. 2. Zonally-averaged annual harvest for the preferred seaweed group, seaweed production of particulate organic carbon (POC) and…

During the finals of the 1986 Trinidad Calypso Monarch contest, the defending champion, Black Stalin, was hoping to beat rising stars David Rudder and Duke to keep his crown. One Hand Don’t Clap, a beautiful documentary that captured the event, follows the competitors as they prepare to perform – but its director, Kavery Kaul, doesn’t seem hugely concerned with who wins.Her film, newly restored and rereleased, is much more focused on two legendary calypso giants who are attending the contest. Looking on from the…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, work stopped at thousands of Ukrainian businesses – including carbon capture-focused startup Carbominer.  As tanks approached the capital Kyiv, inhabitants of the city, including employees of the company, were forced to flee for their own safety. Among them was Viktoria Oseyko, chief marketing officer, and her father Nick, founder and chief executive officer of Carbominer. But Ukraine soon retook control of the area. “When the Russian forces…

When Neil Buckland, an artist based in Seattle, met a geologist named Tony Irving a few years ago, he had no idea it would launch an extraterrestrial collaboration. Buckland was at the University of Washington photographing ultrathin slices of meteorite for a project Irving was working on. The cut space rocks didn’t seem particularly exciting at first. Then Buckland peered at the 30-micron-thick samples through a pair of polarizing filters. He was stunned by the vibrant collage of hues.Photograph: Neil BucklandFound by…