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Particle-based ambient air pollution causes more than 4 million premature deaths each year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The tiniest particles—2.5 microns or smaller, known as PM2.5—pose the greatest health risk because they can travel deep into the lungs and may even get into the bloodstream.Although total PM2.5 levels have decreased 42 percent in the U.S. since 2000 as a result of clean air regulations, scientists are concerned about the health impacts of even low levels of such pollution. The…

Astronomers have mapped out half the universe in X-ray light, using a space telescope called eROSITA. The new map, which contains almost a million X-ray sources, is the basis of dozens of new scientific papers, with many more to come.eROSITA is a soft X-ray imaging telescope positioned at Lagrange Point 2, making it a neighbor of the James Webb Space Telescope. The goal was to perform a scan of the entire sky at X-ray wavelengths, to detect new galaxies, clusters, supermassive black holes and other objects, as well as…

Graphical abstract. Credit: Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2024.100389 A new study shows that annual carbon emissions from lakes in the Qingzang Plateau (QZP)—a vast elevated plateau at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia—have declined, with some lakes shifting from carbon sources between 1970–2000 to carbon sinks between 2000-2020, a finding that has implications for estimates…

Tesla’s next-gen electric cars, including the long-awaited “$25,000 model”, are coming in 2025, according to a new report based on sources from the automaker’s supply chain. With a plan to build 20 million vehicles per year by the end of the decade, Tesla is going to need to expand its vehicle lineup quickly. It needs not only new vehicles in the lineup but also cheaper vehicles. For a few years now, Tesla has been teasing two “next-generation” electric vehicles: a smaller and cheaper electric…

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple plans to add new fees and restrictions after allowing app downloads outside the App Store in the EU, including reviewing apps downloaded by users — Meta, Spotify and other companies are weighing new options for customers as Apple makes changes to comply with new European law Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple plans to add new fees and restrictions after allowing app downloads outside the App Store in the EU, including reviewing apps downloaded by users …

In each water sample, researchers examined nitrate isotopes, which are unique, allowing the team to trace the water sample back to where it originated. Credit: University of Texas at Arlington Four decades of changes in land use in central Costa Rica have increased nitrate concentrations in drinking water, in some areas to potentially unsafe levels, according to a new study led by a University of Texas at Arlington scientist.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every 10 years since 1801—save for a wartime interruption in 1941—the UK government has conducted a national census of England and Wales. This is a big event. The data collated in the last survey, in 2021, is still being published, with final reports only scheduled for 2025. Yet, doubts have emerged about whether the next one—in 2031—will actually take place. …

Google has clarified that the snippets it presents within the Google Search results primarily come from the content on the page and not from structured data or your meta descriptions. Google updated its snippets control help document to clarify this language. What Google said. Google explained that it “Clarified in our documentation about snippets that the primary source of the snippet is the page content itself.” “The previous wording incorrectly implied that structured data and the meta description HTML element…

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Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into effect in September 2022 — Delays come amid slowing economy and increased tensions between Washington and Beijing — China has approved only about a quarter … Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into…