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The value of natural history collections and the information that can be gleaned from them have increased over time as digitization efforts makes them more widely available for study. Credit: Illustration by Emile-Allain SéguyWith greenhouse gas emissions causing Earth’s climate to steadily heat up, we’re seeing an increasing number of extreme and anomalous weather events. But predicting and analyzing the effects of what is, by definition, an anomaly can be tricky.According to scientists, museum samples could provide some…

Police in New York recently managed to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker seemingly by magic. The perp in question, David Zayas, was traveling through the small upstate town of Scarsdalewhen he was pulled over by Westchester County police. When cops searched Zayas’ vehicle they found a large amount of crack cocaine, a gun, and over $34,000 in cash in his vehicle. The arrestee later pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerHow exactly did cops know…

While GPS can be used to determine one's geographical coordinates on land, such is not the case underwater. Scientists have developed a possible alternative, however, in the form of a system that analyzes the manner in which sunlight is polarized by water.GPS functions by calculating the user's position relative to four or more satellites, all of which are orbiting the Earth at known locations. The system only works if it can receive radio signals from those satellites, though, and those signals don't travel well through…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) researchers have developed a new tool—the Global Migration Data Explorer—to help address the lack of data on global migration flows and provide a visual method for exploring migration patterns worldwide. The Global Migration Data Explorer…

Detroit-born Zeena Parkins is best known as a maverick harp player, who has worked with everyone from Björk to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to John Zorn. This album, however, foregrounds her role as a composer and conceptualist rather than as a musician. It continues something that started as a commission by Merce Cunningham’s dance studio in 2008, when Parkins devised a spartan, visual score to guide improvisers, based on lace patterns, a concept that she has been exploring ever since.skip past newsletter promotionGet music…

The government warned on Friday that strict action will be taken against online players if they do not stop the menace of 'dark patterns' - tactics used to manipulate consumer choice and nudge users to sign up for a free trial or provide personal data. Briefing media, Consumer affairs secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said: "We took a soft approach and told them on June 13 not to indulge in this. On June 28, we wrote a tough letter and asked them not to stop this, otherwise will take action". Maybe after a couple of months, the…

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs (MCA) has written a letter to top digital commerce companies such as Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, BigBasket, Reliance Retail, Swiggy, Meesho among others to stop using dark patterns for duping consumers as it is an unfair trading practice.The ministry is also in the process of framing guidelines for discouraging the usage of dark patterns, said Rohit Kumar Singh, secretary, department of consumer affairs which comes under the ministry of consumer affairs.The department has urged the industry…

Near Toolik Field Station in northern Alaska, an arctic ground squirrel pokes its head out of a burrow. Credit: Oivind Toien/University of Alaska FairbanksUnique long-term research sheds light on how biological responses to climate shifts.Arctic ground squirrels possess a unique trait among mammals – they can resist freezing even when their body temperatures fall below the freezing point, allowing them to survive harsh winter environments. A recent study published in Science that reviews over two decades of climate and…

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found that AI-powered voice analysis can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and cognitive impairment in early stages, potentially providing an efficient screening tool for primary care providers if confirmed by larger studies.O’Donnell Brain Institute researcher says findings may lead to a simple screening test for early detection of cognitive impairment.New technologies that can capture subtle changes in a patient’s voice may help physicians diagnose cognitive impairment and <span…

Population continuity and ghost genetic ancestries in pre-Hispanic Mexico. Ancient individuals who inhabited the northern frontier of Mesoamerica (NFM) before and after a 200-year period of severe droughts (shown in timeline) belong to a continuous population. This is in contrast to a previous hypothesis suggesting that hunter-gatherers from Aridoamerica replaced the populations at the NFM following the southward shift of its limits with Mesoamerica…