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Unless you’ve received an increase in wages, your wallet is likely already suffering from the continuous rise of prices on essentials. And while there’s nothing you can do to stop it from happening, you can make a few alterations to your lifestyle to buffer the blow. For starters, you can be more strategic in buying groceries, taking advantage of coupons and deals whenever you can. It would also help if you bought some items in bulk, and warehouses like Sam’s Club can help mitigate some costs....

From Sunday evening to early Monday, our pearly satellite will lapse into a total lunar eclipse, as well as its “super flower blood moon” phase. The first hints of darkness will appear on its surface around 10 p.m. Eastern on May 15. The totality part, when the moon is completely overshadowed, will last from about 11:30 p.m. Eastern on May 15 to 1 a.m. Eastern on May 16. Total lunar eclipses, which happen when the sun, Earth, and moon land in a neat line, are usually seen twice a year in some regions....

What is the Sennheiser IE 100 Pro? The Sennheiser IE 100 Pro is the most affordable model in a line of universal in-ear monitors, or IEMs, from the long-respected microphone, speaker, and headphone company. The German manufacturer’s pro audio products are found in studios and on stages worldwide, and audiophiles use Sennheiser professional headphones to enjoy the recordings those mics capture. IEMs, meanwhile, are more often the territory of performers and audio purists because of both price and experience....

In the developed world, we’ve largely done away with serious vitamin deficiencies via the luxury of having broad diets and artificially enriched foods at our disposal. That doesn’t mean they’re unheard of, though. One recent case study in the Annals of Internal Medicine described a teenage boy who ate little besides potatoes, white bread, and processed pork meat, and consequently went blind from a lack of B vitamins. Most of us don’t subsist entirely on junk food, though, which means the serious consequences of a deficient diet are mostly kept out of sight....

The researchers used data from a study that ran from 2003 to 2006, where scientists tracked participants’ physical activity for a week. Researchers then tracked death rates through 2015 in a mortality follow-up and analyzed the data against trends, in minutes, for how long participants were physically active. They found that 10 extra minutes of exercise per day, in addition to normal daily activity, was associated with an 8 percent decrease of total deaths among men, and a 6 percent decrease of total deaths among women....

Typical smartphone flashes use LED bulbs. They are relatively bright—at least when there’s one shining directly into your eyes during a picture—power efficient, and incredibly small. That makes them fit nicely into the cramped spaces inside a mobile device. Typical camera flashes, however, often use a hermetically sealed tube full of xenon, a noble gas, to create its illumination. It’s an extremely complex process, but it essentially requires a high-voltage capacitor to discharge into ionized gas that quickly transitions to its plasma state and back again....

Finally, it looks like we have some answers as to why this happens, and what it means for finding habitable worlds. New findings published in Nature Astronomy suggest that these exoplanet pairs often exhibit poles that are very sharply tilted, promoting an “obliquity” (the relationship between a planet’s axis and its orbit) that pushes the planets apart. Planets could experience extreme seasonal changes and harsh climates as a result, affecting their ability to sustain environments habitable to life of some kind....

The answer, per industry experts alongside Southwest’s own CEO—employee scheduling software that debuted around the same time as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. According to multiple recent rundowns of the debacle, Southwest’s long-running reliance on a crew scheduler program called SkySolver is largely to blame as the catalyst behind cascading failures described last week as “unacceptable” by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Simply put, SkySolver already was nearing the “end of its life” even before winter storm Elliott arrived, and the nearly two-decade-old program couldn’t handle the scalability needed to tackle the multiple waves of cancellations and delays....

Update (April 9, 2022): The Ax-1 crew successfully docked at the International Space Station today at 8:29 a.m. EST, about 45 minutes after the intended time, due to a video routing error. It will take several more hours of testing and calibration before the hatch opens to let the SpaceX passengers to embark. NASA’s first crew of astronauts touched the stars in 1961 with Project Mercury. The Kennedy Space Center’s latest flight, however, had a different sort of crew: paying passengers....

Maple syrup is the sticky glue that holds breakfast together. It’s also an incredibly valuable industry, which thieves illustrated very clearly in 2012, when a group made off with $18 million worth of maple syrup from a Canadian factory. (The trial started this week). But scientists are worried that the scrumptious river of concentrated tree sap might be drying up in the Adirondacks, and no one knows why. As a part of his master’s thesis, Daniel Bishop began studying the status of sugar maples in the Adirondacks....

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This year’s picks include the world’s smallest invertebrate, a glow-in-the-dark cockroach, and a monkey that locals have long known about, but that only just received a scientific name. Check them out below. Click here to enter the gallery

Best overall: Ruffwear Front Range Day Pack Best for hiking: Ruffwear Palisades Dog BackpackBest for large dogs: Kurgo Big Baxter Dog Harness Best for small dogs: Doggles Extreme BackpackBest budget: Outward Hound Daypak How we chose the best dog backpacks As animal lovers and dog owners, we sought dog backpack options that are safe, secure, and comfortable. To do this, we conducted thorough research and consulted the products our furry friends currently use....

Looking for the complete list of 100 winners? Check it out here. Grand Award Winner: The best e-mountain on the planet When Yeti Cycles set out to build its first electric mountain bike, the company needed to do better than just slapping a battery and motor to an existing ride. The race-driven brand wanted a cycle that would scream uphill and bomb downhill at record-setting speeds, but do it with the same feel of other analog Yetis....

Highly Commended 2019, Behavior: Mammals Nikon D750 + 400mm f2.8 lens; 1/2000 sec at f6.3 (-0.7 e/v); ISO 640; Gitzo monopod A newborn hippo, just days old, was keeping close to its mother in the shallows of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe, when a large bull suddenly made a beeline for them. He chased the mother, then seized the calf in his huge gape, clearly intent on killing it. After trying to drown it, he tried to crush it to death....

Earlier this month, filmmakers Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh revealed plans to digitally “cast” James Dean in their new film Finding Jack. Yes, the same James Dean who perished in an auto accident in 1955, and who was last seen onscreen in the 1956 film Giant. Of course, Ernst and Golykh aren’t breaking new ground here. The 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story used digital effects to bring back late actor Peter Cushing – who passed away in 1994 at the age of 81 – so he could reprise his role as the villainous Grand Moff Tarkin....

Followers of this movement have chosen an unlikely martyr: Antoine Béchamp, a French chemist and underdog who died with little recognition for his accomplishments, still bitter toward his arch-rival, Louis Pasteur. Béchamp was the father of terrain theory. Scientists and historians say his ideas weren’t totally wrong—but somewhere along the way, fueled by the conviction that Béchamp was unfairly ignored, an entire pseudoscience movement has cropped up around his discoveries....

So it is no surprise that both candidates propose ambitious space policies in their Science Debate 2008 answers. Talking about the grandiose themes space travel evokes makes a candidate sound very presidential, while at the same time, failing to deliver on space related campaign promises doesn’t really anger the majority of voters. It’s win-win for lofty rhetoric, but does anything in their record hint that their promises of a beefed up space program are for real?...

The additional HIMARS were part of a broader $450 million aid package, part of a cumulative effort of over $6 billion sent to the country. As enumerated by the Pentagon on June 24, this aid also includes over 1,400 Stinger anti-air missiles and over 6,500 Javelin anti-tank missiles. These weapons, while potent, have two big limitations: They are short range, and they are carried by soldiers into battle. A Stinger or a Javelin is effective if the soldiers can survive to get close enough to the enemy vehicle to use it, but artillery poses a big threat to soldiers on foot, and even in vehicles....