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Flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), named after their flattened foreheads, live in fragmented pockets across Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia, but they were feared extinct in Thailand.

This is the first time that researchers have compared what would happen to Europe’s summer precipitation under different climate scenarios if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to collapse.

China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25%

China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25%

Uh yeah, we autistics experience this regularly.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38724442

https://archive.ph/3WZrp

“The new device is built from arrays of resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells…. The team was able to combine the speed of analog computation with the accuracy normally associated with digital processing. Crucially, the chip was manufactured using a commercial production process, meaning it could potentially be mass-produced.”

Eye injuries related to pickleball have increased at an “alarming rate” as the sport’s popularity has exploded in the United States, a new study finds.

The new book "The Big One" describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the dangers of future outbreaks.

The spiders in question are Stegodyphus dumicola aka African social spiders.

I saw this older article in the sidebar while reading that other recent ant article. I thought it was also neat and worth a separate post.

There's a huge difference between 'too late to prevent meaningful impacts' and 'too late to keep things from being much much worse'

Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence.

The first thing that you'll notice about kākāpō — a type of large, flightless parrot found only in New Zealand — is how rotund they are.

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to come.

Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of "ill-aimed pee."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16248069