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As extreme storms, floods, fires, droughts, cold snaps, and heat waves hit us harder and more often than ever, more than half of our planet is predicted to shift into new climate zones by the end of the century.



					
			

A new interactive map, The Future Urban Climates, allows you to explore how your home's climate will be impacted.
Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on  Climate Change (IPCC), University of Maryland spatial ecologist Matthew Fitzpatrick matches 40,581 places around the globe to nearby locations currently experiencing their future predicted climate in 2080.
For example, a trip to northern Mississippi today would allow...

This New Map Reveals The Predicted Future Climate Where You Live

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC


It's long been thought that a monumental surge in oxygen fuelled the Cambrian explosion some 540 million years ago, breathing life into Earth's biosphere to generate a rich array of stunningly complex animal species.



					
			

Whether oxygen truly played such a critical role is hotly debated though, with other factors potentially igniting Earth's greatest evolutionary burst – from the near-collapse of Earth's magnetic field to the erosion of Gondwanian 'supermountains', asteroid dust and even marine worms.
Now, new research scouring the globe for geological data suggests oxygen didn't flood the atmosphere and oceans a little over half a billion years ago, so much...

Life Only Needed A Small Amount of Oxygen to Explode, Scientists Find

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Caitlin Tan wanted to breed her childhood horse, JP, because she’s been “amazing” — the type of animal any equestrian would be lucky to have once in a lifetime. Having access to coveted bloodlines increased the allure. Via the Miller Ranch, she could pair her 18-year-old mare with a stud descendent of Playboy’s Buck Fever.

Cream of the crop: a cremello foal is born in Wyoming

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Of all the places you can get stung by a bee, the eyeball has to be one of the most unfortunate spots. A rare case study from Wills Eye Hospital in the US state of Philadelphia details the horrifying story of a 55-year-old man who got a barbed bee stinger stuck in his right eye.

Horrific Bee Sting Leaves Barbed Stinger Hiding in a Man's Eyeball

Little more than a handful of corroded bronze wheels and heavily encrusted gears now remains of the ancient artifact called the Antikythera mechanism, leaving archaeologists to speculate over its functionality and purpose. After decades of study, it's largely agreed that the millennia-old device was something of an analog computer capable...

Gravitational Wave Research Reveals Missing Details on The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism


Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.
Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.



					
			

Back in 2020, researchers from institutes in Germany and Greece reported a mechanism in the brain's outer cortical cells that produces a novel 'graded' signal all on its own, one that could provide individual neurons with another way to carry out their logical functions.
By measuring the electrical activity in sections of tissue removed during surgery on...

A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Was Detected in Human Brains

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Deciding on which zodiac signs are the most dangerous is not an easy task as there could be many ways of determining what is considered dangerous. Dangerous of course could be a very subjective idea. Your own sign could also weigh heavily in making this list as certain signs, as we know, tend to be more compatible with some than others. So, what am I going to make these predictions based on? I am thinking that looking at the most formidable and dangerous people in our history might be a good way to make the determination of the most dangerous signs. Let’s see what we can learn.

3 Zodiac Signs That Are Born to be Bad

Emily Standley Allard

Marriage is a significant life decision that requires extreme commitment, understanding, devotion and a heck of a lot of compromise. While many people dream of a lifelong partnership, others find the concept of marriage challenging. Astrology offers insights into personality traits and behaviors, suggesting that certain zodiac signs might face more difficulties in maintaining a traditional marital relationship. This article explores the five zodiac signs that are often considered less suited for marriage due to their unique characteristics and tendencies when it comes to lifelong commitment.

The 5 Zodiac Signs Not Meant for Matrimony

A loss of controlled inhibition of overly excited brain cells might explain how a common knock-out anesthesia drug works. A new animal study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that propofol, a sedative used to safely lull people into unconsciousness for medical procedures, disrupts the brain's normal ability to regain control of highly excitable neurons.

Common Sedative Could Break Consciousness by Tipping Your Brain Into Chaos

Without easy access to freshwater lakes, streams, and dams, roughly one out of every four humans depends on reservoirs beneath Earth's surface for survival. By the end of the century, tens to hundreds of millions could be deprived of even this tenuous supply of moisture as rising temperatures risk turning shallow groundwater supplies into toxic sumps.

Warming Groundwater Could Be Undrinkable For Half a Billion People by 2100


File under ferocious predators we wouldn't want to meet during a swim on ancient Earth: the newly discovered Gaiasia jennyae was a large-fanged, salamander-like swamp creature with a skull around 60 centimeters (24 inches) long, researchers have revealed.



					
			

As outlined in a new study by an international team of experts, G. jennyae lived around 280 million years ago during the early Permian, a whole 40 million years before  dinosaurs arrived on the scene.
Fragments of fossilized skeletons representing four specimens were found in the Gai-As Formation in Namibia.
"When we found this enormous specimen just lying on the outcrop as a giant...

This Giant Swamp Creature With a Toilet Seat-Shaped Head Terrorized The Permian

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Long COVID is a brutal illness without a known mechanism or cure. Far from being psychosomatic in nature, a new study adds weight to the idea that this misunderstood disease is very much biological.
The lingering toll the SARS-CoV-2 virus exacts on the immune system is widespread and hiding in plain sight, argue researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, CellSight Technologies, and Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center.
When 24 patients who had recovered from COVID-19 had their whole bodies scanned by a PET (positron emission tomography) imaging test, their insides lit up like Christmas trees.
A radioactive drug called...

COVID's Hidden Toll: Full-Body Scans Reveal Long-Term Immune Effects

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The mysterious, sudden abandonment of the ancient lost city of Cahokia by its inhabitants has been puzzling historians for a long time now – and experts have cast fresh doubt on one of the most popular theories to date. For several hundred prosperous years, Cahokia was the place to...

The Mystery of Lost City of Cahokia's Abandonment Just Got Even Deeper

New evidence from the US has backed up previous findings that as of early 2023, an estimated 6.9 percent of American adults – or some 17.8 million US citizens – have ever had long COVID. The data reveal some clear demographic differences among US adults, showing which groups...

Almost 18 Million Adult Americans Have Had Long COVID


Some butterflies may be able to journey across entire oceans with the help of the wind.
A world-first study has now shown that the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) can cross the world's second-largest ocean, the Atlantic, covering 4,200 kilometers (2,610 miles) in as few as five to eight days.



					
			

The trip, researchers claim, "is among the longest documented for individual insects, and potentially the first verified transatlantic crossing."
The incredible discovery was made after more than a decade of mystery.
It all started in 2013, when a flock of fatigued butterflies landed on the beaches of French Guiana with torn and tattered wings....

Butterflies Can Make Epic Atlantic Ocean Voyages, Shocking Scientists


A little over a decade ago, a robotic rover on  Mars finally uncovered an answer to a pressing question. It's now clear that the red planet does, indeed, have organic material buried in the sediment of its ancient lakebeds.



					
			

Since then, we've continued to find organic molecules on Mars distributed in a way that suggests carbon chemistry is widespread across our small rusty neighbor.
This doesn't mean we've found signs of alien life. Far from it; there are many non-biological processes that can produce organic molecules. But exactly where the material came from has posed a bit of a puzzle.
Now, a...

Chemistry Discovery on Mars Hints at The Origins of Life on Earth


To get a closer, real-time look at developing fetuses, and to better understand the potential causes of birth defects and other health issues, scientists have turned to a source you might not have expected: quail eggs.



					
			

In fact, our earliest developments as living beings are similar to those of quails, and because their embryos grow inside eggs, they can be scanned relatively easily. Avian eggs have long been favored by scientists for the study of embryos.
Here, researchers in Australia used eggs carrying quails bred to express a fluorescent peptide that binds to actin proteins that form the structure of the early...

Incredible New Tech Lets Scientists Watch Fetuses Develop in Real Time

From conveying precise instruction to evoking entire new worlds, words and their meanings are central to our existence as humans. But how the multitude of cells making up a human brain take abstract noises or symbols and convert them into something with meaning has long been a mystery. New techniques...

Meanings of Words Have Been Detected in The Flicker of Individual Brain Cells

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Fans of Frisco's Chicken were left reeling as the beloved Peruvian-style eatery announced the closure of all its locations in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The chain, known for its delicious food and strong community values, posted a heartfelt note on its doors, informing customers of the devastating news.

Favorite Chicken Chain Suddenly Closes All Stores, Heartfelt Message Found on Doors

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Ancient Cave Ritual From 10,000 Years Ago May Be World's Oldest Tradition


In the charcoaled remains of fires that smoldered more than 10,000 years ago, archaeologists have found evidence of what may be the longest continuing ritual –...

Ancient Cave Ritual From 10,000 Years Ago May Be World's Oldest Tradition

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