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Ecologists have yet to settle on an estimate of how many will manage to weather this change—whether by moving or by acclimating—and how many will perish. Their predictions have varied widely, with climate change causing between zero and 54 percent of species to disappear. Many of these estimates are based on computer models that try to predict extinction based on where species’ ideal climate will move as temperatures warm. But a new study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looks to the past to understand how over 500 species have responded to the warming climate so far, then uses those patterns to project future declines....

In a statement released on Saturday, CEO Matthew Prince expressed his displeasure with the move, arguing that “this an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare’s role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with.” However, Prince went on to concede that “specific, targeted threats have escalated … to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms [sic] or any other customer before....

The study was conduced by the Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (NordICC) and is the first randomized trial to directly compared patients who had undergone colonoscopies with those who had no cancer screening. It included more 84,000 men and women ages 55 to 64 from Poland, Norway, and Sweden who had never gotten a colonoscopy. The participants were randomly invited to have a screening between June 2009 and June 2014, or they were followed for the study without getting screened....

In a new research app (not available to the public…yet) Disney scientists announced they’d figured out a way for a kid to color in a picture on paper, and have their creation show up on a tablet, as they’re working. Their research was published in a paper presented at a symposium on augmented reality last month It’s pretty incredible to see: And it doesn’t have to be crayons or colored pencils....

We found some of the most unique, efficient, and charming K-Cup storage containers available—all designed to keep your cups handy (or out of the way) while you enjoy your daily coffee tastings. Part K-Cup storage, part grand stage for your instant coffee maker, the Well Weng holder isn’t much for subtlety (or space saving) but it is elegant, well designed, and able to store a vast well off coffee types....

Scientists took fat tissue samples and exposed them to coronavirus in the lab. They found that mature fat cells and fat tissue macrophages, a type of immune cell, were cellular targets for the virus. The team also took lung, kidney, heart, and fat tissue from COVID-19 patient autopsy samples and evaluated each tissue for viral RNA. They found the virus in all tissues, but the rates of detection were highest in lung, followed by fat, heart, then kidney tissues....

There are certain areas of expertise that came naturally to the editors of Popular Science over the years: cars, space, aviation, and computers, to name a few. During the first half of the 20th century, we even provided practical features for scientifically-minded housewives. But children and babies? Not so much. Hence this compilation of the most dubious child-rearing technologies from the pages of Popular Science. We’ll be honest: As fond as we are of the crackpot inventions that have popped up on our pages over the years, we’re not in the least bit surprised that most of the devices in this gallery never took off....

Cruise ships are incredibly large—among the largest ships in the world—and it takes a lot of fuel to keep them moving. They’re often over three football fields long and can feature pools, ice skating rinks, basketball courts and more. A ship can burn up to 250 tons of fuel in a single day. Studies have shown one cruise ship produces roughly the same amount of carbon emissions as 12,000 cars....

The scientists conducting the study, from McGill University, King’s College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc., studied 1,125 Caucasians who had been assessed for male pattern baldness. Male-pattern baldness is the most common form of baldness, where hair loss begins above both temples carving an M or horseshoe shaped hairline. On the previously unsuspicious chromosome 20, the team found two culpable genetic variants. The findings were confirmed on an additional 1,650 Caucasian males....

No one wants to come back from space with bruises and shoulder injuries, but that’s exactly what some astronauts have had to deal with. However, these wounds aren’t induced by anything so striking as a satellite collision or a deep space anomaly—they’re often caused by a crew member’s own uniform. Over the years, NASA has tried several different strategies to perfect the next generation of spacesuits. From the Mercury spacesuit to the current iteration of the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), the history of astronaut apparel has been a storied one, and at times, dotted with mishaps....

While those numbers do sound impressive, it can be hard to know what to make of them. OK, so we eat 10 billion animals and throw out 16 billion disposable diapers every year. So what? Today’s infographic, by blogger and journalist Tim De Chant, gives the issue some meaningful context by asking, and then answering, the question, “what if everyone in the world lived like us?” To make the graphic, De Chant started with the Global Footprint Network’s 2011 estimates of the average “ecological footprint” of people from several countries....

Any vehicle that goes faster than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, is technically hypersonic. This missile just cleared that threshold, and it is expected that similar designs will go that fast or faster. The missile, called the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), is a type of middle child between slower cruise missiles and much faster ballistic missiles. “The HAWC vehicle operates best in oxygen-rich atmosphere, where speed and maneuverability make it difficult to detect in a timely way,” DARPA said in a release about the launch....

If you keep up with the latest marijuana and hemp-related news, then you know that delta 8 is all the craze. It’s federally legal, gets you high, and can be relaxing. Delta 8 THC, or delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, is similar to delta 9 THC. However, delta 9 is far more potent, illegal on a federal level, and can induce paranoia and anxiety. With delta 8, you can have the high with a very small risk of any paranoia/anxiety and can use it in most states....

Carrier introduced this off-beat hypothesis a few years ago, to much controversy. Now he and his colleagues have come out with a study that sort of supports but doesn’t confirm the idea. In the study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Carrier and his team used the disembodied arms of cadavers to show something that martial artists and street fighters already knew: that clenching your fist and wrapping your thumb around your fingers reduces your chances of breaking your hand when you punch something....

Prince Charles of England, one of the many leaders who arrived at Glasgow on a private jet, called for a new “world economic system” and advocated for better protection of biodiversity. ​​“We simply must talk about the solutions and actions we can start making, and taking, today,” he said at COP, The Guardian reported. “Frankly, we’ve all had enough talking, so we need to put our commitments into practice.” Frustrated with what she felt was inaction and misinformation, Fridays for Future youth movement founder Greta Thunberg, led a protest through COP26 and told world and big business leaders where to shove their so-called climate crisis....

“We think it’s really important to be clear and honest and responsive when something like this does come to the forefront, and so we want to reassure people that this is something that might happen, it should be transitory, it should be a short-term effect,” says Katharine Lee, a biological anthropologist at Tulane University. “The main takeaway is that this is a real factor, and it shouldn’t scare people away from the vaccine....

Humans constantly speak to and around dogs, making these mammals most likely to make connections about the words people are saying. The researchers in this study also knew that this kind of complex computation of sounds exists in the animal world, too, between creatures. “This is the first time that we show that a non-human mammal can do this,” says Mariana Boros, one of the lead authors on the study....

The Spyker C8 Preliator shares quite a bit with its predecessor, the C8 Aileron, including an aircraft-inspired design language and a 4.2-liter V8 engine sourced from Audi. But this time, Spyker has added a supercharger, which means the max speed is a hair over 200 mph and the 0-60 mph time is well under 4 seconds. At the same time that Spyker struggled for financial survival, it was also creating the Preliator (or “warrior” in Latin)....

Here’s how it works: The drones learned to identify trails using deep learning neural networks. This is the same process like the one Google’s Deep Dream used to create those super-weird images from last summer. Only instead of looking at a picture of salad and breaking it into dog faces, this network reads forests to find the paths that look like they’re supposed to be there. Don’t expect rescue drones to find missing hikers just yet, but someday, quadcopters could be as iconic an alpine rescue tool as St....

From the notice: Under current law, companies that want to fly drones commercially are prohibited from doing so, unless they’ve applied for and been granted a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the FAA. SkyPan applied for a COA in December 2014, and was granted one in April 2015. The flights mentioned in the fine all took place before the application. While Certificates of Authority have become standard practice for drone companies over the past few years, they’re supposed to be a temporary measure until the FAA figures out proper drone rules....