#Smiling in the masked world of COVID-19

“#Smiling in the masked world of COVID-19” Credit: CC0 Public Domain With faces covered to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, some of the facial cues that people rely on to connect with others—such as a smile that shows support—are also obscured. As people navigate a masked world, they will need to focus more on…

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#UK ‘increasingly likely’ to see +40C temperatures: study

“#UK ‘increasingly likely’ to see 40C temperatures: study” In 2018 the UK summer temperature was a joint record high Temperatures in Britain could exceed 40 degrees Celsius every three or four years by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, research published Tuesday has found, as climate change increases the likelihood of scorching heat waves….

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#It’s big, but it’s not a ‘murder hornet’

“#It’s big, but it’s not a ‘murder hornet’” Credit: Texas A&M University Since the release of information about Asian giant hornets, Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists are being inundated with cicada killers and other lookalike insects submitted for identification as a possible “murder hornet,” which thus far has only been found in Washington state in the…

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#Evidence found of Natufian people eating snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago

“#Evidence found of Natufian people eating snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago” Bone modification types in the experimental material (left column) and their equivalents in the archaeological assemblage (right column). (a) Regular-edge perforations from the Mount Nitai pellet; (b) irregular-edge perforations from the trampling experiment; (c) smoothing of the regular-edge perforation from the trampling experiment;…

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