#Deadly Aussie snakes, magpies seized from suspected traffickers

“#Deadly Aussie snakes, magpies seized from suspected traffickers” Magpies in Australia are best known for swooping on cyclists during spring A cache of native Australian animals—including some of the country’s deadliest snakes and a bird known for its swooping attacks—was seized Wednesday in raids on suspected international wildlife traffickers, police said. New South Wales police said…

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#Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods

“#Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods” A coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forest landscape at Mt. Tam in Marin County, California with redwood trees mapped from ASU Global Airborne Observatory imaging spectroscopy shown in light blue. Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects…

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#Income, race are associated with disparities in access to green spaces

“#Income, race are associated with disparities in access to green spaces” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Access to green spaces in metro areas—parks, trails, even the tree cover in a neighborhood—is largely associated with income and race, new research indicates. Researchers combined census-block-group demographic and socioeconomic data with satellite imagery to analyze access to green spaces…

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#Introducing a new isotope: Mendelevium-244

“#Introducing a new isotope: Mendelevium-244” Jennifer Pore, a Berkeley Lab project scientist who led the study detailing the discovery of mendelevium-244, operates the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator vacuum controller at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron in this 2018 photo. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered…

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#Simple device monitors health using sweat

“#Simple device monitors health using sweat” A multivalve sweat collector for monitoring health. Credit: Jennifer M. McCann/ Penn State A device that monitors health conditions in the body using a person’s sweat has been developed by Penn State and Xiangtan University researchers, according to Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn…

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#NASA analyzes the newest Atlantic Ocean subtropical depression

“#NASA analyzes the newest Atlantic Ocean subtropical depression” On June 23 at 2:10 a.m. EDT (0610 UTC), NASA’s Aqua satellite found several fragmented and disorganized thunderstorms circling the center of circulation of Subtropical Depression 4, where cloud top temperatures as cold as or colder than minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 45.5 Celsius). Credit: NASA/NRL NASA’s…

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#NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly

“#NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly” NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Storm Dolly in the western North Atlantic Ocean on June 23, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Credit: NASA Worldview During the morning of June 23, the fourth system in the Northern Atlantic Ocean was a subtropical depression….

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