Brooke Pimental is a foster mom in West Chester, Ohio, who tried six types of formula before landing on one that worked for her 5-week old foster daughter. That persistence helped rid the child of painful gas and diarrhea—until the ongoing formula shortage left her scrambling. “She has a very sensitive system, and we didn’t want to change things up once we found what worked for her,” Pimental says. She first encountered supply chain issues toward the end of December 2021, when it took her three stops to find the correct formula....

They could have admired the ruby tendrils of Plagiomnium insigne, or gazed upon the tiny beards of Racomitrium canescens. They could have pretended they were breathing in the fresh scent of the Hall of Mosses, a nature trail in the Hoh rainforest devoted to giant trees garmented in stretching bryophytes. But maybe it’s for the best that they didn’t: they might have disturbed what is rumored to be the quietest outdoor space in this country, marked by a red pebble atop a moss-covered log....

The premise behind regrowing vegetable scraps in water is simple: plants are generally built to harness energy from the sun and nutrients from the earth. A small glass or dish of water won’t provide the same nutrients as hearty soil, but plants can still use it to grow new tasty shoots or soil-ready roots. Plants that will grow roots Let’s say you have access to a pot of soil or two, but don’t have the patience (or the green thumbs) to grow veggies from seed....

Thankfully, most major video calling platforms offer the ability to remove your own video feed from view, while keeping it visible to all others on the call. And some, like Microsoft Teams, plan to add it soon. How to remove your video feed from Webex Rather than view your video as one of the on-screen tiles while using Webex, you can break it out into a free-floating window. To do so, click the video options menu (three dots) within your video tile, followed by Show my self-view in a floating window....

That’s where the concept of Leave No Trace comes in. It’s a practice made up of seven principles that aim to help you do almost precisely what its name says: leave no trace that you were ever in the wild to begin with. That means minimizing the unavoidable effects we have on natural places while eliminating the avoidable ones. This, of course, is easier said than done. Making matters worse, 90% of people who visit the outdoors are uninformed about Leave No Trace principles, according to Ben Lawhon, Education Director at Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics....

In fact, you’ve got several options for transferring your precious playlists between services, and we’ll talk you through the best ones. After all, we know how much you care about your music and we want to make sure your curated playlists don’t get left behind when you change things up. Soundiiz It’s hard to look past Soundiiz. The web app is nicely done, it supports a wealth of streaming services (including the more obscure ones), and provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to moving playlists between services....

Most of us leave the house carrying three essentials: keys, wallet, and smartphone. But over the past few years, more and more people have chosen to simplify this classic trio further. And no, we’re not talking about phone cases that also hold cash—however useful. If you want to get an upgrade from old cash and cards but you’re unfamiliar with app-based payments, know that it’s safe and easier to get set up than you might think....

A: Increase Awareness Awareness starts within Success in changing our negative age beliefs hinges on our ability to identify them. Monitor your age beliefs by checking yourself for portrayals of older people that feel like negative stereotypes and classify these portrayals as such. If you find yourself behind the wheel, muttering under your breath about the elderly driver in front of you, remind yourself that older drivers have fewer accidents and are less likely to text while driving....

But my daughters had other plans. They feared the ocean before they could properly speak, stemming from the time an extreme high tide reached our blanket and swept away some shoes. Netflix’s preview for Soul Surfer about Bethany Hamilton, the young Hawaiian surfer who’d lost her arm to a shark, made things worse. For the better part of a decade, I’ve been trying to help them overcome their fears of the ocean and the creatures lurking mostly in their minds....

Why temper chocolate? But if you’ve ever tried to make these treats from scratch, you’ve probably noticed that the end result just isn’t quite as sophisticated-looking as the store-bought equivalent—the color is dull or cloudy, and the texture remains soft at room temperature. That’s because the professionals use a technique called tempering, a process of precise heating and cooling that produces a beautifully dark, glistening finish. Tempered chocolate is about more than looks—it stays solid at room temperature so it doesn’t need refrigeration, and it’s tougher than candy you melt and recool without precision....

The social media apps on your phone are likely some of the most frequently used, but keeping up with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat feeds can be exhausting. So, to save your time and sanity, it’s worth culling your “following” list every now and again. If there are people you never interact with, or whom you would be happy to never hear from again, don’t waste energy scrolling past their updates—cut them out of the picture....

Rebuilding RAM Memristors will store large amounts of data and could make your computer boot instantly Accessing data, whether stored in a spinning hard drive or in flash-based memory, is a time-suck and a power hog. The dynamic RAM that rapidly delivers data to the processor is almost maxed out. “Both technologies for the magnetic hard disk and D-RAM are within a few generations of hitting brick walls,” says R. Stanley Williams of HP Labs’s Information and Quantum Systems Lab....

This is important because it provides clues about the abundance of the first galaxies, which can help answer questions about their formation rate and how this affected the growth and evolution of everything else. The new observations came from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a specific patch of sky that Hubble has stared at for very long periods to gather lots of distant light. In this case, a team led by Richard Ellis of Caltech made observations over six weeks in August and September, using the Wide Field Camera 3....

But what if help is a long time coming? The Stearns I950 ThermaShield 24+ bills itself as the most advanced immersion suit made, one that can extend that crucial in-the-water survival window up to 24 hours, and keep you alive even in freezing (32°F) water. How good is this suit? I couldn’t leap from an arctic charter to test its outermost limits at sea. But I was able to try it in northern Vermont, in early November, with snow falling, and the water in Lake Champlain hovering at that 50-degree mark....

A researcher at IBM has uncovered what could be a start to these answers: a model for what the brain does at rest, when it’s not reading or thinking or cooking you breakfast. IBM neuroscientist James Kozloski calls it “the Grand Loop.” “The brain consumes a great amount of energy doing nothing. It’s a great mystery of neuroscience,” Kozloski said. “You don’t spend that much energy on noise unless there’s a really good reason....

A new analysis based on fossilized plants and climate models indicates that these frigid conditions would have limited tree cover across Pangaea. This in turn would have had profound implications for the climate and the course of plant evolution, as reported on October 11 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Understanding how vegetation fared in this harsh landscape can also help us prepare for the future, says William J....

In what may have been the easiest volunteer experiment ever, 57 people had to drink hot chocolate served in four different types of cups. They were all plastic and the same size, but were either white, cream, red or orange with white inside. The tasters reported the chocolate tasted better in the cream-colored and orange cups. The color had nothing to do with this difference, neither physically nor chemically, but apparently the drinkers’ brains thought they detected a difference, according to Betina Piqueras-Fiszman, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain....

To enter the fox permafrost tunnel—one of the only places in the world dedicated to the firsthand scientific study of the mix of dirt and ice that covers much of the planet’s far northern latitudes—you must don a hard-hat then walk into the side of a hill. The hill stands in the rural area of Fox, Alaska, 16 miles north of Fairbanks. The entrance is in a metal wall that’s like a partially dissected Quonset hut, or an enlarged hobbit hole....

On Friday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a 25-year-old nonprofit dedicated to protecting civil liberties in new media and communication platforms, filed a brief in support of Defense Distributed, claiming that “the government has gone too far by restricting online speech generally about certain technologies, and requiring would-be publishers to ask for a license to speak–in a process with no binding standards or meaningful government deadlines and no judicial oversight.” Here’s the key statement from their brief: In America, which has permissive gun laws, the existence of files to 3D-print guns is unlikely to noticeably increase the potential danger from guns....

There’s “currently no specific drugs or vaccines for Nipah virus infection,” Linfa Wang, a bat-borne virus expert at Duke University’s Global Health Institute and conference co-chair, told Reuters this week. Wang and other experts are currently gathered in Singapore for the first-ever Nipah virus conference. At the two-day event they’re talking about everything from the history of Nipah outbreaks to ways forward for containing the disease. They’re also hoping to raise its profile....