“It’s a nice quantification of the public health benefits of cleaner air,” says study author Erika Garcia, a postdoctoral scholar in the department of preventive medicine in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. The team leveraged data from the Southern California Children’s Health Study, a longitudinal research project that collected data on thousands of children in Southern California over the course of more than a decade, to track changes in asthma incidences as air quality improved....

Wetzer and his colleagues turned the idea of a tipping point on its head, theorizing that small changes in policy or the development of a new technology, for instance, could lead to big, positive changes in the way we produce and consume energy. Their proposal is outlined in a paper in the journal Science. “Climate change brings risks that will, in one way or another, impact most people’s lives —and certainly the generations that follow,” said Wetzer, a co-author....

The real draw, however, is the screen. Last year’s OnePlus 7T got extremely high marks for its screen performance and the 90 Hz refresh rate—more on what that means in a moment—was a real differentiator for it. The 8 Pro ups the ante on display performance, but unless you’re fluent in these kinds of specs, understanding just what you’re getting for your money can be complicated. Here’s an overview of some screen technology terms and numbers that you’re likely going to be hearing about a lot more as 2020’s crop of new flagship smartphones makes their debut....

The $799 Arc draws its named from the 270-degree curved grill that sits over its speaker array, which has 76,000 holes drilled into it. Underneath, you’ll find 11 individual speakers, including a pair of upward firing drivers and one speaker on each end to help create the multi-directional effect. Even in the age of a simple sound bar, there’s still a lot going on behind-the-scenes to try and get your optimal sound....

“We want to find out what fans talk about and their reactions to events at a game,” said researcher Stuart Reeves to the BBC. “The aim is to design applications that can help them record events during the match, communicate in the gaps between play—before a game, during breaks in the game, at half time, after it has finished—and create a memory of the day.” Think of it as a glorified instant messaging customized for sports aficionados....

“He’s always the first,” says Lamar Mitchell, one of Wonder’s technology assistants. “He was the first one to have a sampler…He was one of the first guys messing with drum machine technology.” The distinct sound of Wonder’s 1972 blockbuster hit, Superstition, came from a novelty piano/electric guitar hybrid instrument called the Höhner Clavinet. “It was meant to be an electric harpsichord,” said Mitchell. “And then something happened when Stevie got it....

Of course, some of my mates were skeptical that it wouldn’t come out looking cool, so I resolved to build something that would really wow them. I spent three months on the project, integrating radio-frequency-ID antennas and a central reader unit into a custom-built table to track the movement of tagged cards and chips. I also hooked up four video cameras and capture devices to record the action, and connected it all to my PC....

Kitchen The kitchen is subject to clutter—from crammed, cramped cabinets to refrigerators that look like you’re playing leftovers Jenga, keeping a tidy cupboard and cooking environment can be a challenge. This selection of space savers and stackable, securely sealed containers will make it much easier to locate dry goods, fresh ingredients, and expired sauces, plus avoid any unwanted smells. SquaredAway Divided Cabinet Turntable Now $18.75 (Was $25) Rubbermaid Brilliance Food Storage Container Set Now $35 (Was $47) Rubbermaid Brilliance Dry Food Storage Set Now $30 (Was $47) Squared Away Large Metal Mesh Cabinet Drawer Now $18....

While it looks like the galaxies SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461 might collide with one another, they are just aligned by chance and ESA likened them to two ships passing in the night. Hubble has captured similar galaxies that appear to be hanging out together in the past, such as NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 in 2017 and NGC 6285 and NGC 6286 in 2019. This is one of many Hubble galaxy observations where the Galaxy Zoo project has played a big role....

“I remember just like it happened yesterday,” said Darryl Gilmore, 89, then a student at the University of New Mexico, studying music and business courses. His brother had just returned from the war, and they needed to get him down to Fort Bliss in El Paso so he could process out. Gilmore borrowed the family car for the trip; he drove it back from Albuquerque to his parent’s home in Tularosa along Highway 380, which goes through Socorro and San Antonio and on to Carrizozo....

A study published January 4 in the journal Matter explains how the artificial tunica albuginea (ATA) works by mimicking a fibrous sheath of tissue that is necessary to maintain an erection. “We largely foresaw the problems and results of the ATA construction process, but we were still surprised by the results in the animal experiments, where the penis regained normal erection immediately after the use of ATA,” said Xuetao Shi, a researcher at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China, and an author of the study, in a statement....

Similarly, restoring a classic car means following someone else’s rules, go-karting is fast but so very serious, and soapbox racers are for kids and wind-tunnel-equipped university engineering departments. So what’s a gearhead with a small garage and $2,000-$3,000 in spending money to do? There is an answer: it’s called a cyclekart. What the rack-and-pinion is a cyclekart? When automobiles first went mainstream, every car was essentially a high-end luxury sedan....

Cost: Free to $50 Time: 15 minutes DABBLER | | | | | MASTER While number portability may have freed your cell digits, your phone is still a ball and chain, locked into one carrier’s service. These subsidy locks keep you from walking away before the provider can recover that big discount you got when you bought the phone. But it doesn’t have to be so. If you have a GSM phone, you can unlock it and switch to any GSM network carrier (the big three are AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile)....

The 2021 Raspberry Pi & Arduino Bootcamp Bundle offers 43 hours of content on Raspberry Pi and Arduino. With a total value of $995, this educational collection of courses and lessons is available now for just $19.99. This bundle is broken down into 5 course and 434 lessons that walk you through creating powerful and scalable robot applications, how to migrate ROS1 code base in ROS2, building amazing projects with Raspberry Pi 4 using Python 3, GPIOs, Flask, and more....

The move comes more than a year after Musk first dangled the idea on Twitter amidst Covid-19 closures in California. “Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately,” Musk tweeted in May 2020 when the company’s Fremont plant remained shuttered due to local regulations (at the time, only essential businesses were allowed to open for in-person operation). The billionaire himself relocated to Texas later that year....

Earlier this month, Nintendo whet fans’ appetites by revealing that Cloud Strife, the lead character from Playstation’s iconic role-playing game Final Fantasy VII, would be coming to Smash Bros 4. The news was basically an announcement for Nintendo’s next announcement of new content, and now he have an official date for that second event: Tuesday, December 15. It should also be a huge payoff for those who have been actively following and participating in the new expansions of Smash Bros content....

The Atlantic Ocean saw fifteen named storms this year, which is a few ticks above the average twelve. Eight of those storms went on to become hurricanes, and two of them—Florence and Michael—reached major hurricane status. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina and crawled its way inland with historic rains before the storm lifted away a few days later. Hurricane Michael reached the Florida Panhandle as one of the strongest storms ever recorded at landfall in the United States, packing winds just a hair below category five status....

So why the apparent mania for all things Bronco? Ford has 125,000 orders for this new rock crawler, and if you order one now in the most easily fulfilled configuration, the wait will be at least five months. If you fancy something fancy, it will be much longer. This new vehicle recalls the first generation of the Bronco—an off-roader that famously rivals Jeep’s Wrangler—which was built between 1966 and 1977....

I’m no intelligence analyst, but stories like Holtzman’s freak me out. So do statistics like this one: Last year, 127 million sensitive electronic and paper records (those containing Social Security numbers and the like) were hacked or lost—a nearly 650 percent increase in data breaches from the previous year. Also last year, news broke that hackers had stolen somewhere between 45 million and 94 million credit- and debit-card numbers from the databases of the retail company TJX, in one of the biggest data breaches in history....

Bell’s creation is called the V-280 Valor. But although it can take off and land vertically like a helicopter, it’s technically not a helicopter. It’s a tiltrotor aircraft. With the V-280, Bell won the Army’s competition to create the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA. “The FLRAA is intended to eventually replace the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, which has been in service for more than four decades,” the Army said in a press release on Dec....