Where did cranberry sauce come from? So, where did the whole can thing come from? The answer is in the way the cranberries are harvested. Americans consume very little of the total cranberry crop as fresh fruit. In 2013, only 5 percent of the cranberries produced were sold as fruit. That means 95 percent of it was consumed as a processed product, like juice, jams, and of course, sauce. And the berries used for sauce and juice are harvested wet....
Martine, a biodiversity scientist at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, has been studying nightshades in the Australian Monsoon Tropics for 20 years. Even so, he struggled to make sense of these particular specimens, which seemed to display a different sex every time researchers took a look. As you may remember from middle school biology class, most (but not all) flowering plants are bisexual, meaning they have flowers with both pistils, which produce female gametes, and stamens, which produce male gametes....
“In the world that we may be seeing quite soon, people seeking reproductive care are going to need to pay attention to what digital trail they’re leaving,” says Corynne McSherry, legal director of digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. “There are many, many, many ways in which we leave that trail without thinking about it.” Last year, period tracking app Flo received a sanctioning from the Federal Trade Commission for sharing data with tech companies, as the Wall Street Journal reported it did with Facebook in 2019....
The launch was the company’s 32nd of 2022, maintaining its current pace of firing off close to one rocket per week. With a record number of rides shuttling equipment, astronauts, and über-rich tourists to and from Earth, the high skies have never been busier. Between government programs like China’s Long March and private shots like SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the world tallied some 130 successful launches in 2021 and is on pace to finish 2022 with even more....
Look no further—start here Between the different types of panels, financing, inverters, and other jargon, researching solar energy can feel overwhelming at first. That’s why I recommend starting at a solar quote comparison site like EnergySage, Solar-Estimate, or SolarReviews (the latter two are run by the same people). Both EnergySage and Solar-Estimate act as educational resources and comparison shopping tools to help you field bids. I’ve been using EnergySage, which is chock-full of articles explaining the technology involved....
To help you plan, we’ve compiled a list of important dates through the rest of the school year, and when you’d need to start your child’s vaccination process. Remember that some people experience side effects after the vaccine, so plan on a day or two of recovery time after each shot. So if you’re hoping to have your child vaccinated by a certain date, they’ll need to start the process five weeks early....
The CDC has recommended boosters on the basis that after a few months, protection against symptomatic infection appears to wane. In the case of Johnson & Johnson’s shot, protection against hospitalization declines after about six months as well. Not every infectious disease expert agrees that young people need a booster, but that’s because some think that the mRNA vaccines are holding up well. Still, it’s become clear that boosters can provide more protection at a population level....
And any telescope too. Microscopes like Herring’s take images using electrons, which have a wavelength five orders of magnitude smaller than that of light. Telescopes can’t use the same approach, because electrons from a far-off source would be deflected or absorbed before they made their way to Earth. “Electrons don’t reach us, but light does,” says Herring, which is one reason that “we can see a lot better looking down at small things than we can looking out at big things....
In its first phase of a clinical trial, nearly 80 percent of patients responded to the drug (doctors detected fewer leukemic cells than before), and 20 percent went into complete remission, according to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Those results are even more impressive because cancers are much harder to treat after the first round of treatments has failed. Venetoclax works by targeting a protein called BCL-2, which in healthy people, helps regulate when cells should die....
It’s needed moisture after a six-year-long drought from 2011 to 2017 and last year’s dry winter. Snowpack and reservoirs are stocked right now. But persistent rain has flooded many areas, including towns along Northern California’s Russian River. In Guerneville, residents paddled around after the river swelled to 45 feet high. Rain, floods, and mudslides have also wrecked homes and roads in areas across the state. The dramatic shift from dry to wet this winter hints at what’s to come....
A new study by an international coalition of researchers shows that while local fisheries are more than productive enough to feed everybody, many developing nations aren’t getting their share of the catch. In fact, a lot of smaller, micronutrient-rich fish are being fed to farm-raised fish, which fetch a higher price on the global market. The research, published today in Nature, uses a model based on 350 fish species we eat to predict the nutritional value of thousands of others....
The way your body knows how much to breathe has a lot to do with why you breathe in the first place. When you inhale, you take in oxygen, which your body needs in order to produce energy. The process of creating that energy leaves behind a gas called carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide production is like the way a car running on gasoline leaves behind toxic fumes; it’s a waste product that needs to be removed from your body....
For the most part, Americans are obsessed with tenderness, and favor mild-flavored meat. We eat a fairly small number of animals, almost all of them slaughtered young, when their meat is at its least flavorful. Fortunately, some of us are starting to realize that meat can be much more interesting. As the food revolution continues to gain traction, our ancestral lust for robust, unusual meats is starting to spark and reawaken....
Although we’ve noted a few nitpicky quibbles, the story does have one gaping technical flaw: the sandstorm that leaves astronaut Mark Watney injured and abandoned on Mars never could have happened. When the Ares 3 crew runs into a dust storm with 105-mph winds, the team is ordered to evacuate, out of fear that their return ship might topple over. As the crew struggles against the winds to reach the vehicle, a flying piece of shrapnel hits Watney, and his crewmates assume he’s been killed....
Christopher France, a psychologist at Ohio University, says this phenomena is known as blood-injection-injury phobia. The gory visual of dripping fluid triggers a significant drop in both heart rate and blood pressure, reducing the amount of oxygenated blood flow to the brain. This leads to fainting—a dramatic measure but one that guarantees more blood to the noggin. Why some folks faint and others don’t isn’t clear, but prior fear of blood and needles often increases the chance of passing out, France says....
Wildfires, then, can be a major factor behind the health effects of bad air quality. But when it comes to health, not all fires are created equal, according to a preliminary study published this week—which found that smoke from prescribed burns affects children’s health less than smoke from wildfires. Prescribed fires are ones lit intentionally under careful conditions, with the goal of reducing the fuel that could spark and prolong wildfires in the future, says Crystal Kolden, an associate professor in the forest, rangeland, and fire sciences department at the University of Idaho....
“We know that Covid-19 is here to stay,” CDC epidemiologist Greta Massetti said in a news briefing on Thursday. “High levels of population immunity due to vaccination and previous infection, and the many tools that we have available to protect people from severe illness and death, have put us in a different place.” One of the biggest changes in this update is that schools and businesses no longer have to sceen non-symptomatic students and employees....
At CES today, Volvo and Microsoft are announcing a partnership where users would be able to start their car, initiate GPS, and turn on the heat, all by remotely talking to their Microsoft Band 2. The integration will also be able to trigger the car’s horn, lock the doors, and flash the lights. (The technology seems primed for practical jokes.) Volvo compares their system to KITT from Knight Rider, although it doesn’t look like the app will have the same winning personality....
When the researchers examined data on past weather conditions and fires, they discovered that a disproportionate share of fires occurred on sweltering days. This isn’t surprising, but as extreme temperatures become more common due to climate change, the researchers predict, this danger will only grow. The findings underscore the threat posed by increasingly hot and dry summers, the team wrote on November 17 in Science Advances. “It’s pretty alarming that we’re going to see pretty high increases in both the number of fires and burned area just because of small increases in temperature from these heat waves [that last] for a couple days,” says Aurora Gutierrez, a project scientist in Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine and coauthor of the findings....
Carbon dioxide levels recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 415 parts per million on Friday. Not only is that the highest number the observatory has recorded since it first started analyzing atmospheric greenhouse gases in 1958, but it’s more than 100 ppm higher than any point in some 800,000 years of data scientists have on global CO2 concentrations. This means levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are now nearly 40 percent higher than ever in human history....
