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1 day ago | 
phys.org | Rick Sobey |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
As white sharks return to the Cape, researchers are helping the public chomp on shark hotspot data from last summer and fall. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's "White Shark Logbook" has been updated with last year's acoustic detection data of tagged apex predators.
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1 day ago | 
phys.org | Maddie Johnson |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
With spring rains, warm-season turfgrasses such as bermudagrass and zoysiagrass are at risk of a fungal disease called large patch that can leave a lawn marked with large brown areas of dead and dying grass. Large patch is caused by a fungus and affects warm-season turfgrasses, which go dormant in cooler months.
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1 day ago | 
techxplore.com | Laura Hurley |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate mitigation policies and carbon-free energy goals—and California is leading the way as the nation's top producer of solar electricity. A study in Energy Strategy Reviews has revealed a dark side to the state's breakneck pace for solar investment, deployment, and adoption, taking a first-time look at patterns of public and private sector corruption in the California solar market.
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2 days ago | 
phys.org | Ingrid Fadelli |Sadie Harley |Robert Egan
The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems. Meanwhile, other quantum physics research has been investigating the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, which entail the influence of past states on the systems' future evolution.
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3 days ago | 
phys.org | Rick Sobey |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
When the heat arrives this week, air quality may be dropping. Wildfire smoke from Canada is expected to move into the region in a couple of days—in an unfortunate repeat of last spring and summer.
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3 days ago | 
phys.org | Summer Lin |Sadie Harley |Robert Egan
First she hovered, and now she's flown. Eaglet Sunny stretched her wings on June 2 and flew out of the family nest for the first time, thrilling fans of the live webcam that monitors the Big Bear family of eagles that includes mom Jackie, dad Shadow and sibling Gizmo.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Ron Lin |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California—heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Tim Harlow |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
Much of northeastern Minnesota remains under air quality alert Friday, while a second alert covering the northwestern part of the state will go into effect on Saturday. In both cases, the alerts come as smoke from Canadian wildfires filters into the state, making the air unhealthy. The smoke contains fine particles that can cause harm to respiratory and cardiovascular systems, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.
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4 days ago | 
techxplore.com | Davey Alba |Joshua Sisco |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
The federal judge who will decide how to limit Google's monopoly in search is considering its advantages in artificial intelligence too, and aiming to limit harm to the other players in the market with any resolution. On Friday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, attorneys for Alphabet Inc.'s Google and the Justice Department answered Judge Amit Mehta's final questions in the government's monopoly case against the search giant.
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4 days ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Nada Hassanein |Sadie Harley |Andrew Zinin
It's as if she's squinting through a smoke-filled room. But it's Charisse Brown's eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision. Brown, 38, has worked all her adult life, with a personal policy of keeping two jobs at once. But when she started losing sight in her left eye last year, she was forced to quit her call center job. That left her with one income stream, her marketing research job, to pay her $1,300 monthly rent and other bills.
