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DNA remnants found in fossil of 6 million year old turtle
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Researchers excavate the 6 million year old fossil remains of a sea turtle of the genus Lepidochelys near La Pina along the Caribbean coast of Panama in this handout photograph taken in 2015 and obtained by Reuters on September 28, 2023. Cadena said the only older vertebrate fossils than the newly described turtle to have been found with similar DNA remnants were of two dinosaurs - Tyrannosaurus, which lived about 66 million years ago, and Brachylophosaurus, which lived about 78 million years ago. Cadena said DNA remnants also have been reported in insects dating to tens of millions of years ago. The turtle is from the same genus - Lepidochelys - as two of the world's seven living species of sea turtles - the Kemp's ridley, the world's smallest sea turtle, and the olive ridley, Cadena said. "Each fossil, each fossil site has specific conditions of preservation that in some cases could have favored preservation of original biomolecular remains such as proteins and DNA," Cadena said.
Persons: Carlos de Gracia, today's Kemp's ridley, Edwin Cadena, Cadena, ridley, Kemp's ridley, Will Dunham, Elida Moreno, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS Acquire, Universidad del Rosario, Smithsonian Tropical Research, Pacific, Thomson Locations: La Pina, Panama, Handout, Bogota, Gulf of Mexico, Washington
At some point in your life, you've probably set a goal. Even setting a goal in the first place can limit you, according to Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant. People who set goals and stubbornly stick to them are "not seeing the dimension of possibilities," Ulukaya said on Grant's podcast in July. Of course, some parts of goal setting are highly valuable. Setting goals and thinking about self-optimization tactics can clutter your mind, unintentionally distracting you from the task at hand, he tells CNBC Make It.
Persons: Emmanuel Acho, you've, Adam Grant, Grant, Hamdi Ulukaya, James Clear, Ulukaya, Francis Sanzaro, Sanzaro Organizations: New York Times, CNBC Locations: Austin , Texas
FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during a budget hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce, April 18, 2023. Khan pointed to scale on Wednesday as a way Amazon leverages its power to dampen competition. Khan also explained the FTC's decision to define the market Amazon has monopolized as the online superstore. "We've had a whole set of antitrust cases that have succeeded when defining a market as the superstore market." This complaint applies that idea to the online world, Khan said, adding that there are functions that only an online superstore can serve through the "depth and breadth" of offerings.
Persons: Lina Khan, Khan, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, it's, We've Organizations: House Energy, Commerce, Amazon, Federal Trade, FTC, Yale, Intelligence Locations: U.S
Antimatter is the enigmatic twin of ordinary matter, possessing the same mass but with an opposite electrical charge. Under current theory, the Big Bang explosion that initiated the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. However, antimatter can be synthesized under controlled conditions, as in the ALPHA experiment, which used antihydrogen created at CERN. "The nearly complete absence of naturally occurring antimatter is one of the great questions facing physics," Wurtele said. "No matter how pretty the theory, physics is an experimental science," Fajans said.
Persons: Jonathan Wurtele, Joel Fajans, Wurtele, Einstein, William Bertsche, Bertsche, Fajans, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, Enterprise, University of California, ALPHA, UC Berkeley, University of Manchester, Thomson Locations: Geneva, Switzerland, Berkeley, England, Washington
Pano AI, a wildfire-detection startup, uses ultrahigh definition, 360-degree cameras and an artificial-intelligence platform to scan, identify, and monitor wildfires. Pano AI alerted the state's Department of National Resources, which began a partnership with the startup in March, and provided visual and location data. Pano AI estimated its alert sped up the response time by 20 to 30 minutes. There are over 100 Pano AI systems deployed across the US and Australia. A Pano AI detection image of the Flat Fire in California.
Persons: , Rogers, Pano AI's, Sonia Kastner, Arvind Satyam, Kastner, Satyam, Hilary Franz Organizations: Service, state's Department of National Resources, Research, 4G Locations: Washington, Mount Rainier, Australia, Canadian, British Columbia, San Francisco, California
Welcome to the hot flashes and other symptoms of approaching menopause — an experience experts say about 75% of women will share if they live long enough. Intense hot flashes could indicate an increased risk of Alzheimer's and heart disease in the future, new research found. The women were also fitted with sweat monitors to record their hot flashes on one of those nights. Frequent moderate to severe hot flashes can often last seven to 10 years, on average, and less frequent or severe hot flashes can last even longer, according to experts. “A lot of people actually underreport their hot flashes, saying they’re not having many when they really are,” Faubion said.
Persons: Peter Dazeley, , Stephanie Faubion, Faubion, Rebecca Thurston, , Thurston, ” Faubion, they’ve, Thurston’s, they’re, Mary Carson Organizations: CNN, Bank, Getty, Mayo, Specialty Clinic, , University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Locations: Philadelphia, Jacksonville , Florida
Bitcoin miners are barreling toward the "halving" — a major market-making event that some fear will be a death knell to many in the industry. "We're taking a long-term bet on bitcoin and on the fact that bitcoin mining will survive and will bounce back even stronger." Texas has grown to dominate bitcoin mining partly because of support from local authorities and the operator of the Texas energy grid, ERCOT. Even during the bear market, Texas miners are building out, buying new sites and fresh fleets of hardware. The mining company was spun off from Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain and went public via SPAC earlier this year.
Persons: Kevin Zhang, Jihan Wu, Bitmain, Kevin Zhang Crypto, He's, China — he's, Zhang, bitcoin, Barry Silbert's, Foundry's, , Chad Harris, ERCOT, Nic Carter, Shaun Connell, Brad Jones, Brandon Arvanaghi, Jason Les, Navarro, Les, hashrate, Morgan, Bitdeer Organizations: Foundry, Mining, CNBC, U.S, Riot, Cipher Mining, Georgia, Securities Exchange Commission, JPMorgan Chase Locations: Sweden, Republic of Georgia, China, America, Beijing, Shenzhen, Montana, North America, Texas, Wyoming, New York, United States, U.S, . Texas, Castle, Rockdale, Austin, Milam, Odessa , Texas, Minden , Nebraska, , Texas, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, North Carolina , Kentucky , Oklahoma, Washington
In the past few months alone, researchers have linked Neanderthal DNA to a serious hand disease, the shape of people's noses and various other human traits. Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1% to 2%. For example, Neanderthal DNA has been linked to auto-immune diseases like Graves’ disease and rheumatoid arthritis. The list goes on: Research has linked Neanderthal genetic variants to skin and hair color, behavioral traits, skull shape and Type 2 diabetes. Researchers found the skulls of domesticated dogs in Homo sapiens sites much further back in time than anyone had found before.
Persons: We’re, , Mary Prendergast, Hugo Zeberg, Svante Paabo, Zeberg, It's, Graves, Homo sapiens, Chris Stringer, , Rick Potts, Paabo, ” Zeberg, Raghavan, Potts, Denisovans, sapiens, Eleanor Scerri, Prendergast, Janet Young, Pat Shipman, John Hawks Organizations: Rice University, Karolinska, Research, Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago, Germany’s Max Planck Institute, Geoanthropology, Canadian Museum, University of Wisconsin -, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Sweden, Melanesia, New Guinea, Fiji, Africa, Europe, Asia, London, Eurasia, Germany’s, University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Beauty of a Silent Walk
  + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Christina Caron | More About Christina Caron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The silent walk is TikTok’s latest wellness obsession, a blend of meditation and exercise that aims to improve mental health. Unlike the similarly trendy “hot girl walk,” a four-mile odyssey that requires goal-setting and giving thanks, the silent walk does not involve multitasking. The fact that the silent walk is nothing new has attracted a chorus of critics; “Gen Z thinks it just invented walking,” they say. But silent walking feels relevant right now because many of us have become tethered to our devices, she added. The question then becomes: “How do we counteract that?” Ms. Lorre said.
Persons: Z, Arielle Lorre, , Lorre, Ms Organizations: Environmental Psychology Locations: Los Angeles
AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen numbers take overThe 10,000-step benchmark has generally been the baseline goal for smartphone apps and fitness trackers. When the Fitbit tracker launched in 2009, 45 years after Yamasa's gadget cemented the 10,000-steps ideal in the public consciousness, it kick-started a boom in fitness wearables and spawned a frenzy for health data. This flood of easily accessible health data has certainly had some positive effects. Many fitness-tracking products also incorporate social-sharing features, which can give us a better perspective on how our exercise habits stack up against our friends', providing a little healthy competition as motivation. Many health- and fitness-tracking apps and wearables issue notifications throughout the day to urge their users toward their movement goals.
Persons: I've, Amanda Paluch, , Paluch, John Toner, Toner, Cathleen Kronemer, Louis, she's, Kronemer, there's, I'm, Kelli María Korducki Organizations: Apple, US Department of Health, Human Services, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Hull, Health, Washington University School of Medicine, Locations: East Asia, St, New York City
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida agriculture losses from Hurricane Idalia are estimated at between $78 million and $371 million, with producers also suffering widespread damage to such infrastructure as irrigation rigs and fences, according to a preliminary report Thursday from the University of Florida. Predicted losses for livestock are pegged at between $30.1 million and $123.4 million, according to the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences report. Four people in Florida were killed during the hurricane, according to medical examiner reports to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Also Thursday, Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson announced an assistance program targeted at repair or replacement of existing irrigation systems. Florida agriculture and related industries such as processing accounted for more than $270 billion in sales revenue and supported some 2 million jobs in 2022, the University of Florida estimated.
Persons: , Xiaohui Qiao, Christa Court, Wilton Simpson, Simpson Organizations: Hurricane, University of Florida, University of Florida's Institute of Food, Agricultural Sciences, Florida Department of Law, Resource Economics Department Locations: PETERSBURG, Fla, Florida, Bend, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor, Gulf of Mexico, Georgia
Fed policymakers at the median still see the central bank's benchmark overnight interest rate peaking this year in the 5.50%-5.75% range, just a quarter of a percentage point above the current range. I do think that they'll remain data dependent and you'll probably hear that from Powell at the 2:30 press conference and going forward as well. So yes, they're talking about higher rates for longer, but it's really the economy that matters. This is because when the Fed announces an interest rate increase, credit card interest rates typically follow shortly thereafter, which may result in larger minimum monthly payments for credit card holders. While the decision not to raise interest rates this time round mitigates that for now, more interest rate increases may be on the horizon.
Persons: Jerome Powell, GARRETT MELSON, presser, GINA BOLVIN, Powell, BRIAN JACOBSEN, MENOMONEE, KARL SCHAMOTTA, GENNADIY GOLDBERG, it's, TOM MARTIN, MICHELE RANERI Organizations: Federal Reserve, U.S, Treasury, Fed, PPI, OF, TOM, Global Finance, Markets, Thomson Locations: BOSTON, Powell, WISCONSIN, TORONTO, U.S, ATLANTA, CHICAGO
Menopause is considered early when it occurs before age 45, which will happen in 5% to 10% of women, Yang said. Early menopause is concerning because of the shortened reproductive years, but also because of links to other health concerns, she added. A 2010 study found that women who experience early menopause are at an increased risk for overall mortality, including cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis and neurological diseases. How are PMS and early menopause connected? Women also need to know that there are ways to manage early menopause and the bothersome hot flashes, she said.
Persons: , Yihui Yang, Yang, Stephanie Faubion, Faubion, , Donghao Lu, ” Faubion, Elizabeth Bertone, Johnson, Organizations: CNN, Karolinska Institutet, Mayo Clinic Center, Women’s Health, PMDs, Karolinska, University of Massachusetts Amherst, American College of Obstetricians, Women’s, US Department of Health, Human Services Locations: Sweden
People walk past a Huawei store with advertisements for the Mate 60 series smartphones, at a shopping mall in Beijing, China August 30, 2023. Huawei (HWT.UL) may launch a 5G version of its mid-ranged Nova around October or November, the IT Times said, citing industrial supply chain sources. Last month, Huawei rolled out the Mate 60 Pro smartphone with little advertising or prior notice. Huawei's last Nova model is constrained to 4G and retails for around 2,400 yuan($329)domestically, while the Mate 60 Pro, released in limited numbers so far, retails for 6,999 yuan. The company is expected to give more details on the Mate 60 Pro at a product launch event next week.
Persons: Yelin, David Kirton, Alexander Smith Organizations: Huawei, REUTERS, Rights, IT, IT Times, China Telecom, HK, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, Rights SHENZHEN, U.S, Shanghai
Or consider IBM’s monopoly on mainframe computing, which was challenged by private and public antitrust suits in the 1960s and ’70s. The suit also weakened IBM at the very time that personal computers were emerging, benefiting tiny upstarts like Apple and Microsoft. Google began as a small start-up with a great product, but it was also a beneficiary of federal government intervention. Fortunately for Google, Microsoft had just been put through the wringer by the Justice Department, whose antitrust lawsuit nearly led to a breakup of the company. But as a giant, entrenched company, Google has the disadvantage of needing to protect its existing revenue streams and keep its investors, customers and advertisers happy.
Persons: Bing, Bard Organizations: Control Data Corporation, IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Google, MSN, Justice Department, Samsung Locations: Washington
Marco Vdm | E+ | Getty ImagesThe wage gap costs women in the U.S. about $1.6 trillion a year, a new report finds. Women earned 78 cents for every dollar that men made in 2022, according to National Partnership for Women and Families. Forty-two percent of the wage gap is the result of occupational segregation, which was exacerbated by the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor has found. To that point, half of U.S. adults said women being treated differently by employers contributes to the pay gap, the Pew Research Center found. That pay scale worsens for each major racial or ethnic group in the country, with white female workers paid 74 cents to the dollar; Black female workers, 66 cents; and Latina female workers, 52 cents.
Persons: Marco Vdm, We've, Jocelyn Frye, Mandi Woodruff, Santos, Frye, Woodruff, Jose Luis Pelaez Organizations: National Partnership for Women, U.S . Census Bureau, U.S . Department of Labor, Pew Research Center, Latina, MandiMoney, Jose Luis Pelaez Inc, Getty Locations: U.S
There is ample advice available about how to ace a job interview. And while the importance of doing a job interview is well established, there is another type of interview worth considering that could also help build your career. That's the informational interview. Informational interviews are informal chats that can happen any time and give you an opportunity to learn something within the world of work. Here's how informational interviews can help propel you forward in your career.
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Melissa Fitzgerald is an actress and director of strategic engagement for All Rise, founded as the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, a training, membership, and advocacy organization for justice system innovation and reform. These public health and public safety crises are among the paramount social challenges of our time. And of course, we need to develop an ever-growing workforce of licensed addiction treatment providers to deliver services. Treatment courts are a shining example of how the justice system can, and should, provide a public health-oriented response to addiction. This year alone, 4,000 treatment courts will refer 150,000 people to treatment and recovery support.
Persons: Martin Sheen, Melissa Fitzgerald, Melissa —, , Andy, , ” Melissa Fitzgerald Leah Puttkammer, Martin Sheen Michael Kovac, we’ll Organizations: Golden Globe, National Association of Drug Court, Public, CNN, AFI, US Centers for Disease Control, National Center, Substance, Welfare, Mental Health Administration, Research, Kennedy Center Locations: telehealth, Chicago, Washington , DC
The Internal Revenue Service is overhauling how it scrutinizes the tax returns of lower-income Americans as part of an effort to reduce enforcement disparities that have made Black taxpayers far more likely than anyone else to be audited. At the center of this effort is a major change to how the I.R.S. conducts audits of recipients of the earned-income tax credit, a special tax refund that was created to help low-income workers. Tax returns that claim the E.I.T.C. Research has shown that audit rates for Black Americans are three to five times higher than for other taxpayers, with audits focused on the tax credit being a major driver of the disparity.
Organizations: Internal Revenue Service, Research, Black
Zafar turned to his microscope – a canonically beloved tool in pathology that the doctors rely on to help make their diagnoses. It's an artificial intelligence-powered microscope built by Google and the U.S. Department of Defense. The AI-powered tool is called an Augmented Reality Microscope, or ARM, and Google and the Department of Defense have been quietly working on it for years. When a glass slide is prepared and fixed under the microscope, the AI is able to outline where cancer is located. For many smaller health systems, digitization is not yet worth the hassle.
Persons: Niels Olson, Nadeem Zafar, Zafar, Zafar's, Mitre Ashley Capoot, Mitre, it's, Ashley Capoot, CNBC Patrick Minot, Minot, Olson, It's, Aashima Gupta, Gupta Organizations: Microscope, U.S . Department of Defense, Google, CNBC, ARM, Department of Defense, Mitre, Minot, Defense Innovation Unit, U.S . Navy, Naval, Naval Medical Center Locations: Seattle, Mitre, Washington ,, DIU, Guam, U.S, Micronesia, San Diego, Mountain View , California
How to Cool Down a City
  + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Pablo Robles | Josh Holder | Jeremy White | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +13 min
But unlike most cities, Singapore is spending enormous resources to try to cool itself down — and learning lessons that could help other cities. But unlike most cities, Singapore is spending enormous resources to try to cool itself down — and learning lessons that could help other cities. Building without cool paint Building coated with cool paint Building without cool paint Building coated with cool paint Satellite image by Planet LabsSimple design decisions can also have a big impact on a building’s temperature. Singapore has built out a more systematic solution, a network of green corridors that connect green spaces together and allow cool air to flow throughout the city. “A corridor can at least generate this kind of cool air circulation in a city.
Persons: , Brian Stone Jr, Khoo, Stone, it’s, , Nicholas Lin, Richard Hassell, Winston Chow, “ You’ve, Singapore Rebecca Toh, Chow, Tamara Iungman, Adele Tan Organizations: Georgia Institute of Technology, , The New York Times, Planet Labs, WOHA Architects, Cooling, Research, Phoenix, Climate Central, SINGAPORE Marina Bay Network, National Parks Board, Barcelona Institute, Global Health, Singapore’s, Redevelopment Authority, Urban Locations: Singapore, Phoenix, Mumbai, Singapore’s, Puat, , L.A, ” Singapore, Pickering, The New York Times Singapore, New York City, Jurong Lake, Cooling Singapore, Marina Bay, downtowns, Ariz, Maricopa County, shadeless, Marina, Paris, Bishan, MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, Medellín, Colombia,
AdvertisementAdvertisementA new Gallup poll released last Friday found a disconnect between want workers want and what bosses think they want. But in a survey of Fortune 500 chief human resource offices, they found a mismatch between what CHROs think employees want for their work schedule and what employees actually want. "For the past couple years, leaders have been working hard to woo remote workers back into the office," Pendell said. "That's likely put blender types in the forefront of their minds, even if blenders aren't necessarily the same as remote workers." When managers don't account for the work style preferences of their workers, it can lead to mismatches that can harm an organization's productivity.
Persons: Ryan Pendell, Gallup, they'd, Pendell, blenders Organizations: Service, Gallup, Fortune Locations: Wall, Silicon
Fernandez sees a total addressable market of $140 billion to support patients with obesity. He expects there is a potential for GLP-1 drugs to become as common and widely used, much like statins are used to lower cholesterol. Morgan Stanley's Flynn estimates a 30% share of the diabetes market would generate $109 billion on a worldwide basis for GLP-1 drugs. Layer in a 15% to 30% share of the obesity market and that equates to worldwide sales of $97.4 billion to $194.8 billion. Guggenheim's estimates also assume that oral GLP-1 drugs that are currently in development are able to come to market a few years from now.
Persons: Seamus Fernandez, Fernandez, Lilly, Eli Lilly, Morgan Stanley, Terence Flynn, Eli Lilly's Mounjaro, Insulet, Canaccord, William Plovanic, Plovanic, It's, Morgan Stanley's Flynn, Flynn, Novo, Michael Bloom Organizations: Wall, Novo, American Heart Association, Food and Drug Administration, Novo Nordisk, Iqvia, Disease Control Locations: GLP
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle criticized remote work, saying the pandemic made people lazy. Biffle joins a growing list of execs critical of remote work, including Elon Musk and David Solomon. Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle criticized working from home while speaking at Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference this week, saying the pandemic made people lazy and that workers have gotten less productive as a result. AdvertisementAdvertisement"This is not ideal for us, and it's not a new normal," Solomon said at a conference in February 2021 regarding remote work, Bloomberg reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs the debate over working from home continues, there have been conflicting conclusions from studies on whether remote work is conducive to productivity.
Persons: Barry Biffle, Biffle, Elon Musk, David Solomon, they're, We're, Biffle isn't, Elon, Tim Gurner, Alexandria Ocasio, COVID, Gurner, Goldman Sachs, it's, Solomon, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky, Airbnb, Prithwiraj Choudhury Organizations: Frontier, Elon, Service, America . Frontier Airlines, Morgan, Laguna Conference, Frontier Airlines, Meta, Apple, Google, CNBC, Millionaire, Bloomberg, Engineers, Harvard Business School, Companies, Street Journal, Research Locations: Wall, Silicon, America, Cortez, Australia, Airbnbs, India
BERKELEY, California, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Meghan Holst studies the broadnose sevengill shark, so she was naturally concerned when record-setting rain this year altered the shark's nursery grounds in San Francisco Bay. Next, perhaps, will come California Fish and Game Commission protections for the sharks in San Francisco Bay, which she considers a nursing and pupping ground for a species believed to be in decline. San Francisco Bay is one of the world's only known year-round nurseries for the species, Holst said, making the habitat critical to monitor. [1/4]FILE PHOTO-Researchers cast lines to catch broadnose sevengill sharks from their vessel in the San Francisco Bay, California, U.S., June 15, 2023. So if something happens to San Francisco Bay, then we might lose an entire cohort of these sevengill juveniles," Holst said.
Persons: Meghan Holst, Holst, Davis, Nathan Frandino, I'm, Will Dunham Organizations: University of California, REUTERS, International Union for Conservation, Nature, Thomson Locations: BERKELEY, California, San Francisco Bay, Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay , California, U.S, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina
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