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This might be why her team got contrasting results in their analysis: The more individual microplastics in the gut, the greater the microbial diversity, but the higher mass of microplastics, the lower the diversity. The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut. But if the bird has just eaten a higher mass of microplastics—fewer, but heavier pieces—it may have consumed fewer microbes from the outside world.Meanwhile, particularly jagged microplastics might be…

What happens during the next few months will really matter. Abundant rainfall could ease the situation and stave off the worst-case scenario. But Europe needs a lot. “We’re talking about a sea, a sea’s worth of water,” says Hannah Cloke at the University of Reading in the UK. In terms of volume, hundreds of millions of cubic liters of rain would have to fall across the continent to fill the deficit, she estimates. It would have to amount to higher-than-average rainfall for France and certain other places, including parts…

A microscope image of a shelled plankton. According to research from The University of Texas at Austin, plankton populations like this flourished in the tropics during past global cooling and may vanish as the climate warms. Credit: Tracy AzeThe tropical oceans harbor the most varied plankton communities on our planet, which serve as the foundation of marine food webs. However, it may come as a surprise that the modern diversity of plankton in the tropics has only emerged recently, within the past 8 million years, due to…

via Marvel Studios Your Honor, the Marvel fandom would like to request a recess to come to a unanimous verdict on where it stands on the hype for Daredevil: Born Again. On the one hand, the fact that it’s finally going before cameras is hugely exciting, as is the joyful news that Jon Bernthal is coming back as the Punisher. And yet we also know that a couple of fan-favorites won’t be returning, and news of a major delay is only adding to the fear that the revival is already going off the rails. At least, Loki…

Seth Rogen has said that negative reviews from critics are “devastating” and that some people in the film industry have “never recovered” from them.Speaking to Steven Bartlett for the Diary of a CEO podcast, Rogen described negative press coverage as a “trade-off” for success in the film industry but said that criticism “hurts everyone”. He said: “I think if most critics knew how much it hurts the people that made the things that they are writing about, they would second guess the way they write these things.“It’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSeth Rogen has talked about how “devastating” he finds negative reviews of his work.The Superbad star, 40, said that over the years he has gained perspective on his creative successes and failures and is now “much better at dealing with it”.Speaking on the The Diary of a CEO podcast, Rogen opened up about his own career self-doubt, and the effects of criticism on himself and others…

The Current7:42Europe suffers winter droughtLess than a year after severe droughts rocked Europe, parts of the continent are dealing with a devastating repeat."The situation is really very  because… it hasn't rained in the last four to five weeks in several parts of western Europe," said Andrea Toreti, co-ordinator at the European Drought Observatory."We see already critical conditions in terms of water content in the soil — and having seen what happened last year, we know the risk, especially for sectors such as…

There were two things that hooked me when I first saw Palm Trees and Power Lines, an unnerving portrait of the grooming of a teenage girl, at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. First, that the film, which is finally getting limited and on-demand release this week in the US, was one of most evocative depictions of suburban adolescence that I’d seen – a languid summer of couch hangs and knobby knees, afternoon ice cream and sex jokes, a whole lot of lying around and talking about nothing. And second, that the portrayal of the…

Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February 11, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9.Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February 14, 2023, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9.Scientists are using satellite images to locate landslides following the powerful earthquakes that struck in early February.The magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes that shook parts of Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, caused widespread destruction, some of which extended beyond urban areas. In the days…

Disruption by floods to the road connection to Aberdeen, Hunter Valley. Credit: NSW Surf Lifesaving, Author provided Australia and New Zealand have both faced a series of devastating floods triggered by climate change and the return of the La Niña weather pattern. So it makes sense that Australia has now sent disaster crews to help with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle. …