[ad_1] by Lucile Leclair Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the virus affected every province and led to the slaughter of half the country’s pigs. The outbreak spread from China…
[ad_1] Offering mailed nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and Quitline support to patients encouraged almost one-third of smokers to quit before their elective surgery, according to Aussie research. The risks of wound infections, cardiopulmonary complications, and higher health care costs were greater for smokers than non-smokers undergoing elective surgery, according to the authors, but those risks…
[ad_1] Vegetated coastal ecosystems, including seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, and salt marshes, are some of the world’s most efficient ecosystems at converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into biomass. Their oxygen-poor sediments slow the decay of organic matter and allow the carbon-rich material to be sequestered beneath the seafloor. Conservationists advocate using vegetated coastal ecosystems to help…
[ad_1] Progress towards universal access to handwashing facilities has slowed in communities from Latin America to Sub-Saharan Africa amid the pandemic, data analysis reveals. Minor sanitation improvements have been seen in some parts of Asia Pacific, but the most vulnerable families living in camps for displaced people and refugees have had to rely on emergency…
[ad_1] Little rain falls on a gravelly desert in western China’s Tarim Basin. In this dry wasteland lie the ancient remains of herders and horse riders. Although long forgotten, these people made one of the biggest fashion splashes of all time. They pioneered pants. This was long before Levi Strauss started making dungarees — some…
[ad_1] Many people try to make society change for the better. The real challenge is how to get good solutions to scale up for major change. New research suggests that social change may depend on the relationship between beneficial behaviors and policies. The research, conducted by the University of Maine, University of Maine at Augusta,…
[ad_1] A new approach to in-memory computing proposes a new set up to create an artificial synapse that can both store and process data. In this blossoming era of AI, efficient computational approaches to processing and storing large amounts of data are required. However, current computer designs have inherent performance limitations. In recent years, research…
[ad_1] A lion rests under a tree at the Rietspruit Game Reserve in Hoedspruit on December 2, 2021. Here kitty kitty… Scientists who spent years spraying oxytocin up the noses of lions found the big cats became much friendlier with their neighbors and less prone to roaring at strangers when dosed up on the so-called…
[ad_1] If you had an enormous measuring tape that started at Earth’s center and went to our planet’s highest peak, you wouldn’t be looking at Mount Everest. Rather, the tallest mountain would be on the other side of the world: Ecuador’s Chimborazo. Chimborazo wins in this case because Earth is actually a little squished at…
[ad_1] Under severe warming scenarios, the risk is growing that areas of the western US will experience extreme rainfall within a year or so of being hit by a wildfire Environment 1 April 2022 By Chen Ly San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge during an extreme storm in August 2020 that ignited wildfires Gary Qian/Getty Images…