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D: Yaël, why do scientists bother studying animal behavior? Why not just study humans? Y: People and other animals have more in common than we like to admit, Don. Did you know that cockroaches have personalities and make choices as groups? D: You’ve got to be kidding Yaël, they’re just insects. Y: No, I’m not. In a study published in 2015, a group of Belgian researchers glued radio tracking chips to cockroaches so they could follow each individual in a group of sixteen. In the lab, they put these cockroaches in an open, lighted space, which cockroaches find scary. However,…
TAMPA, Fla. — Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite is ready to start commercial services following successful tests in geostationary orbit, the Swedish broadband operator announced July 5. Company CEO Per Norén said the first full-service customer for Ovzon 3 will be GIGN (Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), France’s elite police tactical unit, which plans to use the satellite for connectivity as the country prepares to host the Summer Olympics later this month. According to Norén, Ovzon’s proprietary T7 mobile user terminal has also achieved 135 megabits per second download and 10 Mbps upload speeds with Ovzon 3, “significantly higher…
Engineers at StorageReview have shattered their own world record by calculating pi to an astounding 202,112,290,000,000 digits, smashing its previous record of 105 trillion digits set earlier this year in time for World Pi Day (March 14 – 3/14).The previous record, the team’s second attempt, was achieved using a dual processor 128-core AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo system, equipped with 1.5TB of DRAM and nearly a petabyte of Solidigm QLC SSDs. For this attempt, the team opted for dual Intel Xeon 8592+ CPUs and 28 Solidigm P5336 61.44TB NVMe SSDs.Key to the challenge was a Dell PowerEdge R760 with a 24-bay…
image: Existing bioaerosol on-line detection technologies and instruments view more Credit: Zhen Chen Bioaerosols include bacteria, fungi, fungal spores and plant pollen, as well as viruses and their secretions such as endotoxin, glucan and mycotoxins. Various respiratory diseases such as rhinitis, respiratory inflammation, asthma and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are related to bioaerosol exposure. However, due to the complexity, diversity and non-biological interference of bioaerosols, online detection of bioaerosols has challenging. In a review published in the journal Fundamental Research, a team of researchers from Guangdong University of Technology summarized the existing technologies and instruments that can be used for online detection…
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Disneyland plans to close Space Mountain during the middle of the busy summer vacation season to overhaul the 1977 indoor roller coaster that takes riders on a high-speed journey through the dark with many twists, turns and dips.Space Mountain will undergo a seasonal refurbishment beginning on Aug. 5 and remain temporarily unavailable for about a month, according to Disneyland officials.ALSO SEE: Why Disneyland’s Oogie Boogie Bash hasn’t sold out yetDisneyland cast members will work on lighting in the lift-hill tunnel and throughout Space Mountain as well as the attraction’s flooring, according to Disneyland officials.After more than four decades of thrills,…
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CANANDAIGUA — Adults are invited to a free community science evening from 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 11 at Onanda Park, 4965 County Road 16.The event is sponsored by the Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association and the Finger Lakes Land Trust. It is free and open to the public, with registration required at https://forms.gle/RgwfEPRm9mj11Rkf6.Participants will cycle through four interactive stations to learn about aquatic plants, terrestrial invasive species, aquatic macroinvertebrates, and CLWA’s citizen science programs. Retired professor Dr. Bruce Gilman of Finger Lakes Community College, a member of Finger Lakes Partnership for Research on Invasive Species Management in Geneva, watershed educators, and CLWA…
Acupuncture is associated with improved sleep quality in patients with Parkinson disease, according to a study published online June 26 in JAMA Network Open. Mingyue Yan, Ph.D., from the First Clinical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in China, and colleagues randomly assigned 78 patients with Parkinson disease and poor sleep quality to real or sham acupuncture for four weeks. The researchers found a significant increase in Parkinson Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS) scores from baseline for both the real and sham groups. After four weeks of treatment, the real group had a significant increase in PDSS scores at four…