FACT: Rats can’t vomit and rat poison (probably) can’t kill you—unless it’s old as heck By Rachel Feltman Here’s the thing: Rats can’t vomit. Rodents as a general rule, don’t puke. That’s why most available rat poisons contain chemicals that induce vomiting; the urge to let out a technicolor yawn will save most humans and pets from getting an accidental dose of pesticides, but it doesn’t do diddly squat for a rat....
In fairness, I generally feel the same way. The Basilisk is one of my favorite mouse designs: It’s comfortable, flashy, and offers a lot of useful buttons. Still, I don’t feel the need to try on every new fit. That may explain why Razer’s decided to call its newest version the “Basilisk V3” less than two years after releasing the “V2” in early 2020. The more versions you release, the harder it becomes to get people excited about new upgrades....
Products like the Zephyr invite a lot of scrutiny. Is this an honest, good-faith attempt to create an upgraded device for people who plan to wear masks in public long-term, or is it a cash grab? Does it work at all? What, if anything, can a big hunk of plastic do that an approved N95 mask can’t? These are all good, fair questions to ask when a company with no history making medical technology quickly develops and launches an expensive piece of kit—the Zephyr mask costs $100, plus the cost of filter refills....
The truth is we could all use a nudge to make an effort in self-improvement, and luckily, Headway has found a way to make that happen without requiring too much of your time. The app offers bite-sized, personalized learning to help you move close to your goals. Now’s your last chance to get it at 80 percent off, or if you’re last-minute shopping, it can be a thoughtful and hassle-free gift (read also: no shipping) to give to a friend or two....
Taylor Swift’s “reputation” wasn’t her best album, but the pop star was onto something, scientifically speaking. On the last track, “New Year’s Day,” Swift sings about the aftermath of a holiday party. While the garbage in the track is really a metaphor for the refuse that old loves leave behind (I think), her description of the dark side of holiday cheer—the trails of glitter, mounds of candle wax, and discarded bottles—is all too real....
Fill your shelves with multiple sets of these affordable towels and you’ll have a whole color palette to mix and match to your taste for daily use—and sophisticated home goods to show off when your relatives come to visit. Each set of 600 gsm (grams per square meter) medium-density cotton towels comes with two washcloths, two hand towels, and two bath towels. The dimensions of the bath towels are 2....
According to a report, the planned hybrid motos would employ a similar hybrid-drive system as the one used in Honda’s hybrid cars like the Civic and upcoming Insight sedan. The two-wheeled hybrids will reportedly come in engine displacements of between 200 cc and 1,000 cc and see fuel-efficiency gains of 50 percent over traditional motorcycles. Production cost savings would come from using common hybrid components in both cars and motorcycles....
Part of what makes this investigation messy is that it takes place during the middle of a proxy war. Following the Euromaidan movement that drove out a Russian-backed president out of Kiev, Russia responded aggressively to Ukrainian assertions of independence, first by taking full control of the entire Crimean peninsula, and then by supporting pro-Russian separatists around the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The Buk missile launcher and system that shot down MH-17 is significantly more advanced hardware than armed rebels usually get, consisting of multiple military vehicles, with radar systems and powerful anti-air missiles....
The clothes we wear are silent sentinels to our daily prattle and privy to the going-ons of our body. “They hear everything,” from our breaths to the blood whooshing through our veins to the beating of our hearts, says study author Yoel Fink, a material scientist and electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He thinks that the wearable microphone can be used as sensors to probe our bodies’ inner soundscape, which could have reverberating implications in healthcare monitoring....
Along with making life simpler for TV owners, smartwatch users and laundry-doers, there were a few smaller updates thrown into the company’s big event as well. The South Korean tech and appliance maker brought a lot to the #SamsungxCES2016 event, but here’s what was coolest. Galaxy TabPro S Samsung took to CES 2016 to unveil its Galaxy TabPro S, Windows 10 machine. The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 competitor provides Windows users with a familiar convertible design: one part tablet, one part laptop....
The station over time had become a destination spot for visit- ing dignitaries seeking to find a kind of ground zero for global warming; Al Gore had been there, along with so many journalists, politicians, and European princesses and princes that Steffen could barely list them all. The true value of Swiss Camp was in the growing record of observations, however. Steffen calculated that between 1990 and 2018 average temperatures on the ice sheet had increased by about 2....
But satellites could make the grunt work go away. Satellite imagery gets better and more ubiquitous every day as new satellites are launched and old ones are updated. The European Space Agency just launched the Sentinel-2 satellite at the end of June and it’s already sending back incredible images that scientists are using to monitor biodiversity. Over the past several years, scientists have been actively involved in getting biodiversity to the forefront of interest....
In a paper published this week in Nature, researchers announced that they have developed a liquid with its molecules structured in such a way that they have ‘holes’ within the liquid. Picture a sponge that can flow like water, and you’ll have a general idea of what they’ve managed to create. “Materials which contain permanent holes, or pores, are technologically important. They are used for manufacturing a range of products from plastic bottles to petrol....
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We only know a few things about these sculptural interpretations of the microscopic world from artist Sinead Foley. 1) The bacteria and cells are made mostly from everyday objects, like pasta. 2) The results are surprisingly detailed (maybe done through 3-D modeling?). 3) Every photo is stunning. Be sure to check out Foley’s tumblr for more projects. The Main Dish
These are Henicopsaltria eydouxii cicadas that a team of University of Uppsala biologists recorded in a half-square-kilometer patch of forest in Australia. The time period in the video covers 50 minutes, starting from sunrise at 5:30, local time. (The first group of cicadas to sing are the first to get the sunlight in the east, researcher James Herbert-Read notes in a blog post about the video.) The different colored circles in the video represent different recording stations the biologists set up....
This specimen, so new it has yet to be named (Titanosaur is the family of dinosaurs it comes from), is one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, and one of the largest creatures ever to be displayed in the AMNH. The immense 122-foot-long cast of its skeleton is so long, in fact, that it can’t quite fit into the Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center in which it’s housed. Its head stretches out of the room, almost ten feet off the floor, cocked sideways and peering down upon all who enter with one eye and a big toothy grin....
His long fingers landed about 10 inches behind the snake’s head. “Probably the worst place you can grab it,” he says. The animal swung its diamond-shaped skull around and latched its muscular jaw onto Sterrett’s forearm. Blood streamed out as rows of sharp, back-curved teeth slashed his skin like tissue paper. “I’ve been bit hundreds of times by snakes, but not by anything this big.” Sterrett is a pro, but this was far from ideal....
Liberty Air 2 Pro $89 (Was $130) Discount code: WS24HS12HQ These true wireless earbuds offer emphasized bass and a frequency bandwidth of 20 Hz to 20 kHz using 10 hardened nano-layers. They provide a personalized fit by offering nine pairs of silicone ear-tups, and the charging case offers up to seven hours of use per charge, with three recharges on a fully charged case. Three earbud modes help control how much external noise is allowed or blocked: Transport, Indoor, and Outdoor....
Since early crewed missions, astronauts returned from space with anemia—a condition in which the body lacks enough red blood cells to carry oxygen to the body’s tissues. Anemia is just one of the health issues observed in astronauts. Health experts were stumped on how this happens, but a new study in Nature, funded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), reveals the mechanisms that contribute to this potentially harmful condition. Of the more than 35 trillion red blood cells in a healthy adult human body, at least 2 million are created and hemolyzed—or destroyed—every second....
