Month: April 2019

Scientists propose a framework for modifying AC units to suck in CO2 and spit out fuels for use in vehicles like cargo ships.

A major new study has identified a link between kids who hear high quantities of adult speech and better nonverbal abilities such as reasoning, numeracy and shape awareness.

Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions continue.

A 12-year retrospective clinical study of patients who received peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for malignant neuroendocrine tumors demonstrates the long-term effectiveness of this treatment, which also allows patients to maintain a high quality of life.

Aperture, Apple’s professionally minded photo editing software, will no longer operate on macOS after Mojave, the current version of the Mac operating system. The announcement was quietly made on an Apple support page that was spotted by MacRumors, which gives instructions on how users should import their images into either Adobe Lightroom or Apple Photos.

The demise of Apple’s legacy software isn’t exactly unexpected. Apple ceased development of the program back in 2014, and the following year, it and iPhoto were replaced with the much simpler Apple Photos. Aperture disappeared from the Mac App Store in the same month, but since then, existing owners have been able to continue to use it. That will change in September when macOS 10.14…

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If you want to avoid spoilers, stay current, or participate in social media conversations, you have to watch Game of Thrones the moment it airs. If you have cable, you probably don’t think twice about it. But if you’re looking for an alternative method, one site always seems to have people covered: Twitch.

On Twitch, streamers are regularly servicing Game of Thrones fans who want to watch the latest episode for free as it airs — and it’s not exactly with HBO’s approval. With just a few seconds of browsing Twitch’s “Just Chatting” category each Sunday night, it’s easy to come across an assortment of streams showing the new episode. There seemed to be more people streaming the premiere a couple of weeks ago than there were streaming the…

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Delivering just the right dose of radiation for cancer patients is a delicate balance in their treatment regime. However, in a new study, researchers have developed a system they say may improve the ability to maximize radiation doses to cancer tissues while minimizing exposure to healthy ones.

To better understand whether rapidly growing cities are hosting the same species, a team analyzed an immense volume of data gathered by citizen scientists during the four-day global City Nature Challenge. Study findings suggest that despite similarities across cities, urban biodiversity still strongly reflects the species that are native to a region. However, observations of shared ”cosmopolitan” species like pigeons, white-tailed deer, and dandelions were more numerous than locally occurring species.

With the cheaper Pixel 3a or Pixel Lite reportedly on the way, Google will change strategy and target budget-conscious consumers.