I placed the cold, jade rolling pin under my cheekbone and gently glided it to the edge of my face. To be honest, I felt a bit like a piece of pastry. But my grandma assured me that I was engaging in a serious traditional Chinese practice that would make my skin glow and my…
Participants identify concerns in their areas during the mapping workshop. Photo: PhilSA The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) conducted a three-day PINAS Workshop and Training on Space Science and Technology Applications (SSTA) for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) from April 23 to 25, 2025 in Malolos City, Bulacan. Representatives from the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk…
Thanks, Ken. I asked chatGPT to review your review. The following is from chatGPT, with a comment from me in parentheses about formatting a table… Full text of the comment (for reference): Martín…I can criticize what you thought about the report… “…which I think is discrediting the science that shows that global warming is real,…
Across Iranvast tracts of land are constantly collapsing. In some regions, the ground is sinking at a rate of up to 30 centimeters per year – the fastest recorded worldwide. This is not a sudden disaster like an earthquake or flood. It is a slow, silent and largely irreversible transformation, reshaping the country’s geography from…
Normally I like the beginning of the school year, but this year I want to do it again. Lucky for me, a new year begins next week: the Year of Water 2026! We had a surprise storm this week, with purple streaks of lightning and raindrops filling our barrel to complete the end of water…
Basidiomes of Laccaria carminostipes (AC);L. mangshanensis (gl); L. sinolatericia (American soldier) YD Xu and ZM He; L. japonica Popa and K. Nara (jk); L. versiforma HJ Cho and YW Lim (left). in Xu, Zhang, Chen and he, 2025 Scale bars: 1 cm. Abstract lacaria is a large genus within the Hydnangiaceae family, and there are…
Thursday, September 4, 2025 – London, UK and Chicago, USA. Researchers associated with a fictitious research network and funding source have collectively raised millions of dollars of taxpayer money for current studies in the United States, Japan, Ireland, and other nations. This is according to research led by Digital Science’s vice president of research integrity,…
A recent study found the first evidence that sperm microRNAs act as carriers of epigenetic information, allowing intergenerational transmission of paternal exercise capacity and metabolic health, thus exerting profound effects on the development of offspring. The bad news, if you want an excuse for your poor fitness, is that this is epigenetic and only in…
Have you ever wondered why clocks go back? It’s always good to lie when the clocks are going backwards, but not so good when they’re going backwards. summer time It was first used in the United Kingdom in 1916. It basically borrows an hour of light from the morning and moves it to the evening,…
In the Arctic, an important variable for future climate change lives in the soil, invisibly. Microbes in the soil layers just above the frozen permafrost metabolize carbon, converting it into carbon dioxide and methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas. As these soils warm, more carbon is released, potentially setting in motion a warming feedback…