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☆ I'm a scientist who moved to Lithuania from the US. I am less stressed and my work-life balance is so much better that I don't consider moving back any time soon.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stephen Knox Jones Jr., a 37-year-old scientist who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania. Here, people recognize the value of having time away from work for well-being — and now I don't feel guilty anymore when I take time off. Jones Jr. thinks the quality of his research is better because he's less stressed and has more head space to dedicate to his work. That's why I think the quality of my research is better in Lithuania than it might be in the US. Jones Jr.'s quality of research is important to him because of his strong desire to contribute to humanity's advancement.

Persons: —, Stephen Knox Jones Jr, It's, there's, that's, I've, Jones, it's, Stephen, Jessica Orwig Organizations: Service, Business, Molecular Biology Laboratories, Jobs Locations: Vilnius, Lithuania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas, After Texas, Europe, jorwig@businessinsider.com

☆ China rocket launch creates cloud of space debris in low-Earth orbit
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —One of China’s Long March 6A rockets has broken apart in low-Earth orbit and created a debris cloud consisting of hundreds of pieces, according to multiple space debris-tracking entities. And the reason for the rocket breakup remains unknown. Everything in low-Earth orbit travels at 17,500 miles per hour, Crassidis said. It’s the second time one of these rocket bodies has experienced a significant breakup event in low-Earth orbit, according to Victoria Heath, associate director of marketing and communications for LeoLabs. “Events like this highlight the importance of adherence to existing space debris mitigation guidelines to reduce the creation of new space debris and underscore the need for robust space domain awareness capabilities to rapidly detect, track, and catalog newly-launched space objects so they can be screened for potential conjunctions.”

Persons: China’s, SpaceX’s, “ USSPACECOM, ”, Rob Margetta, LeoLabs, John L, Crassidis, “, It’s, Victoria Heath, Audrey Schaffer Organizations: CNN, Taiyuan Satellite, Shanghai Spacecom, Satellite Technology, Space Command, US Department of Defense, NASA, International, Network, University, Buffalo’s School of Engineering, Applied Sciences, LeoLabs, Aerospace Locations: Taiyuan, Shanghai, Victoria

☆ Antiaging enthusiasts are getting $16,500 injections to make their knees young again
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

For now, here's what we know — and what we don't know — about stem-cell therapy for knees. Bryan Johnson flew to the Bahamas to get MSC stem cells injected into his knees, hips, and shoulders — for about $16,500 per joint. Plus, even Sampson warns that young donor stem cells should not be seen as a quick fix or a panacea. Done with proper medical oversight, some studies have found no adverse effects from stem-cell treatments for various conditions. Botched stem-cell treatments can cause infection, blindness, and excessive cell growth, which can trigger the formation of tumors.

Persons: —, Bryan Johnson, Johnson, hasn't, Josh DeAngelis, Rasul Chaudhry, Chaudhry, Steven Sampson, Chaundhry, Sampson, Peyton Manning, Patrick Smith, George Kittle, Hulk Hogan, TJ Dillashaw, Rafael Nadal, Jack Nicklaus, I've, it's, Paul Knoepfler, he's, It's, Mattias Bernow, we'll, Knoepfler Organizations: Service, Business, MSC, Oakland University, NFL, FDA, UFC, ESPN, CNN, UC Davis School of Medicine Locations: Bahamas, Panama

☆ New tech will trap CO2 from cargo ships and store it in the ocean
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The dissolved calcium carbonate then reacts with the CO2 in the water to form bicarbonate salts, locking the CO2 away. Adkins says that with a full-scale reactor, he aims to capture and store about half of a ship’s CO2 emissions. BAR Technologies/Cargill French company Airseas has developed the Seawing, which it says could help ships cut their carbon emissions by an average of 20%. A British company called Seabound, for example, makes a device that captures between 25% and 95% of a ship’s CO2 emissions. “We think that ships are actually going to be able to compete with underground CO2 storage,” he said.

Persons: it’s, Jess Adkins, ”, Adkins, ” Adkins, Calcarea, Melissa Gutierrez, Pierre Forin, geochemist Will Berelson, Will Berelson, Airseas, Maxime Horlaville, Norsepower, Daniel Sigman Organizations: CNN — International, International Maritime Organization —, UN, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, University of Southern, USC, British Port Association, Cargill, BAR Technologies, de Bordeaux, Michelin, Norsepower, Anemoi, Technologies, Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University Locations: University of Southern California, Port of Los Angeles, Norway, Nantong, Vancouver, British

☆ China launches its rival to Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Chang'e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket combination sit atop the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan province, China May 3, 2024. China on Tuesday launched its first batch of internet satellites that will form part of a constellation it hopes will rival SpaceX's Starlink. Known as "Thousand Sails," the constellation is a low-Earth orbit set of more than 15,000 satellites that China has said will create global internet coverage. A Long March 6A carrier rocket took off from the Taiyuan launch center in the northern Shanxi province of China to deliver the initial 18 satellites into space, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which called the mission a complete success. By 2025, China is aiming to deploy 648 satellites in the first phase of the constellation's buildout, in order to create an internet network with global coverage, according to state media CCTV.

Persons: SpaceX's Starlink Organizations: Tuesday, Chinese Academy of Sciences Locations: Hainan province, China, Taiyuan, Shanxi

☆ Meet Michal Kosinski, the Oppenheimer of AI's Scariest Future
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Eugenicists used photographs and IQ tests to determine which people were "inferior," and sterilized those who didn't measure up — which usually turned out to be anyone who wasn't white and rich. Before he worked with photographs, Kosinski was interested in Facebook. It's just picking up on the way gay people present themselves on dating sites — which, not surprisingly, is often very different from the way straight people present themselves to potential partners. Kosinski thinks AI's ability to make the kind of personality judgments he studies will only get better. That is the future Kosinski fears — even as he continues to tinker with the very models that prove it will come to pass.

Persons: Michal Kosinski, Kosinski, I'm, they'd, isn't, Oppenheimer, David Stillwell, Stillwell, aren't, Brian Stauffer, Aleksandr Kogan, Donald Trump, —, Kosinski isn't, MAGA, Bernie bros, Alexander Todorov, It's, they've, — Francis Galton, Ronald Fisher, Karl Pearson —, Aubrey Clayton, Hitler, Trump, They're, Adam Rogers Organizations: Stanford University, Kosinski, Facebook, Cambridge, Cambridge Psychometrics, National Academy of Sciences, Psychometrics, BI, intuit, Guardian, Rights, GLAAD, Stanford, HRC, University of Chicago, US Supreme, tinker, Business Locations: California, Stanford, Kosinski, Russia

☆ These scientists want to safeguard Earth’s species by cryogenically preserving them on the moon
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A group of scientists has devised a plan to safeguard Earth’s species in a cryogenic biorepository on the moon. In order to reach the required temperatures on earth, a supply of liquid nitrogen, electricity and human staff are required. To reduce this risk, Hagedorn and the team thought about how cryopreservation could be achieved passively, which is impossible on Earth, and alighted on the moon. “We aren’t saying what if the Earth fails – if the Earth is biologically destroyed this biorepository won’t matter,” Hagedorn said in the statement. Sally Keith, a senior lecturer in Marine Biology at Lancaster University, who was not involved in the research, had similar concerns.

Persons: Norway Lise Aserud, NTB Scanpix, ”, Mary Hagedorn, Hagedorn, ” Hagedorn, Rob Brooker, James Hutton, ” Brooker, Sally Keith Organizations: CNN, Smithsonian, BioScience, Reuters, Conservation Biology Institute, James, James Hutton Institute, Lancaster University Locations: Svalbard, Norway, Scotland

☆ Here are 4 things we're watching closely in the stock market this week
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Stocks had a rough week, topped off with a pummeling Friday after the July jobs data came in weaker than expected. Until then, bad economic news was good news for the stock market, because it meant the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates sooner. On Thursday, a drop in U.S. manufacturing activity for July and a jump in initial jobless claims dragged down the market. Next week is light on economic data, so expect earnings reports and CEO commentaries to drive the market action. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: Stocks, Dow Jones, Jim Cramer, would've, Eli Lilly, Mounjaro, Berkshire Hathaway, Krystal, Tyson, BAX, Owens, Walt, Oscar Health, CRON, Krispy, Papa, Jim Cramer's, Jim Organizations: Nasdaq, Dow, Reserve, Broadcom, Devices, Palo Alto, PMI, Wynn Resorts, Investors, Wynn, Wynn Palace, U.S . Disney, Management, and Drug Administration, Carlyle Group, Krystal Biotech, Tyson Foods, TSN, Alpha Metallurgical Resources, BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Axsome Therapeutics, Technologies, Clover Health, Realty Income Corp, Avis Budget Group, CSX Corp, CSX, Simon Property Group, Sterling Construction Company, Teradata Corp, Yum China Holdings, ZoomInfo Technologies, Holdings, Caterpillar, Baxter International, Vulcan Materials Company, Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, Constellation Energy Group, Marathon Petroleum Corp, Owens Corning Inc, Duke Energy Corp, GXO Logistics, Brands, Builders, Wynn Resorts Ltd, WYNN, Rivian Automotive, Devon Energy Corp, GigaCloud Technology Inc, Lumen Technologies, VF Corp, Walt Disney Co, Novo Nordisk, CVS Health, Aurora Cannabis Inc, Emerson Electric Co, Sony Group Corporation, SONY, Inc, ODP Corporation, Icahn Enterprises, MannKind Corp, ACM Research, Brink's Company, AppLovin Corporation, Digital Turbine, Sarepta Therapeutics, Occidental Petroleum Corp, Bros, SolarEdge Technologies, Aspen, Coeur D'Alene Mines Corp, Co, Vistra Energy, Cheniere Energy, Cronos, Himax Technologies, Properties Trust, Papa John's, Paramount Global, Trade, Lab, B2Gold Corp, Honest Company, Gilead Sciences, Growth, Nikola Corporation, Embraer, New Fortress Energy, Construction, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, Disney, Pixar Locations: Palo, Macau, Las Vegas, Boston, Vegas, Wynn Macau, China, Novo, Coeur, Gilead

☆ Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This is the second significant heat wave Antarctica has endured in the last two years. That unprecedented heat wave was made worse by climate change, according to a 2023 study published in Geophysical Research Letters. Climate change contributed 3.6 degrees of warming to the heat wave and could worsen similar heat waves by 9 to 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, the study found. Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Slide left to see temperatures observed during this heat wave and right to see what normal temperatures should be. But other research in the last few years has demonstrated that melting in East Antarctica, where this heat wave is happening, is becoming equally troubling.

Persons: David Mikolajczyk, Mikolajczyk, ” Thomas Bracegirdle, University of Maine Bracegirdle, ” Bracegirdle, it’s, Ted Scambos, Bracegirdle, Amy Butler, Butler, ” Organizations: CNN, East Antarctica –, Antarctic Meteorological Research, Data Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Antarctic, Reds, Institute, University of Maine, Research, University of Colorado, Northern Hemisphere, Southern, NOAA’s Chemical Sciences, Change Institute, East Antarctica, National Academy of Sciences, “ Locations: Antarctica, East Antarctica, Bismarck, North Dakota, University of Colorado Boulder, Northern, East, Scambos, West Antarctica

☆ I found out my boyfriend had 3 other girlfriends. Then I became friends with the other women.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Then, it all fell apart when I learned he had three other girlfriends, all of whom thought they were exclusive with him. First, I told the three other women my ex had been seeing at the same time as me. We supported each other as we started to healHowever, I've got to say that my ex knew how to pick women. I'm not in a serious relationship, but I'm working on rebuilding my confidence and practicing self-compassion and love. Luckily, I have two new friends who can understand exactly what I'm going through.

Persons: Samantha Tsang, STDs, he'd, haven't, I've, they've, I'm Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Watch out for the semiconductor supercycle before you start buying stocks like Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nvidia stock prices have more than doubled since the start of the year, and in June, it briefly became the world's most valuable company. "The boom in spending on AI infrastructure has been a major growth driver for the chip industry," Miller said. Zuckerberg even touted Meta's growing stockpile of Nvidia chips in an interview with The Verge in January, adding that he expects the company to own more than 340,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024. The boom in data center builds has also spurred significant chip demand. Amazon, Meta, and Google are all designing their own AI chips.

Persons: —, Chris Miller, Miller, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla's Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, TSMC, Thomas Rupf, Josie Ananto, Parthenon's Ananto, Jensen Huang, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Service, Nvidia, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Business, New York Times, Bank Asia, Nvidia Semiconductor, Big Tech, Meta, Google Locations: EY

☆ How antidepressants can make people more vulnerable to heat
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When Adelaide Saywell posted on TikTok last month that SSRIs, a commonly prescribed antidepressant medication, could make people more vulnerable to heat, it went viral and sparked a deluge of comments. Adelaide Saywell received a flood of surprised comments when she posted about the link between SSRIs and heat intolerance. Dehydration puts people at risk of heat exhaustion and, in particularly severe cases, heat stroke, which is dangerous and potentially deadly. Sondeep Shankar/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesScientists and doctors are still trying to unpick the complex relationship between SSRIs and heat. It is partly the reason why medical professionals don’t always talk about heat when they prescribe these anti-depressants.

Persons: Adelaide Saywell, “, ”, ” Saywell, Laurence Wainwright, Pope Moseley, Moseley, Sondeep Shankar, Wainwright, don’t, ” Wainwright, Reddit, won’t, Saywell, Judith Joseph, Joseph, ” Joseph, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, University of Oxford, Arizona State University, Bloomberg, Getty

☆ Wall Street will look for signs of what's next for the market after a rocky start to August
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The S & P 500 ended the week down by 2%. As of Friday, the Nasdaq Composite was more than 10% below its recent high, while the S & P 500 was down by 5.7%. Markets were last pricing in a 71% chance of a half percentage point rate cut in September, up from 22% on Thursday, according to the CME FedWatch Tool . Brands , Fidelity National Information Services , Uber Technologies , Marathon Petroleum , Caterpillar Wednesday Aug. 7 3 p.m. Consumer Credit (June) Earnings: Costco Wholesale , Warner Bros. Discovery , Occidental Petroleum , Ralph Lauren , CVS Health , Hilton Worldwide Holdings , Walt Disney Company Thursday Aug. 8 8:30 a.m.

Persons: Stocks, payrolls, Bill Hornbarger, Benjamin F, Edwards, Russell, Claudia Sahm, selloff, Michael Kantrowitz, Piper Sandler, Kantrowitz, Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs, Hatzius, CNBC's, Eli Lilly, Ralph Lauren, Martin Marietta Organizations: Nasdaq, Treasury, Investors, Federal Reserve, Walt Disney Company, Caterpillar, Costco, Micro Computer, PMI, PMI Services, Services PMI, Simon Property Group, Diamondback Energy, Tyson Foods, Devon Energy, Airbnb, Wynn Resorts, TransDigm, Brands, Fidelity National Information Services, Uber Technologies, Marathon Petroleum, Consumer Credit, Costco Wholesale, Warner Bros, Discovery, Occidental Petroleum, CVS Health, Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Gilead Sciences, Akamai Technologies, News Corp, Paramount Global, Expedia, Martin, Martin Marietta Materials Locations: Fortinet, Devon

☆ How did a rose get its prickles? A new study has answers
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Prickles have been around for at least 400 million years, dating back to when ferns and their relatives emerged with some bearing prickles on their stems. Lonely Guy genesBy removing prickles from various species, including roses and eggplants, the authors found that a LOG gene was responsible for the prickles in about 20 types of plants studied. LOG-related genes are found in all plants, even dating back to mosses, which are regarded as the first dry-land plant, Lippman said. “(LOG genes) have been repeatedly co-opted (a biological shift in a trait’s function) in different plant species for the formation of prickles, and also repeatedly lost in lineages where prickles are lost. For agricultural purposes, removing prickles could make harvesting easier and pave the way to get lesser-known produce into grocery stores.

Persons: munch, Zachary Lippman, —, Lippman, Guy, It’s, ” Lippman, “, Tyler Coverdale, ” Coverdale, Coverdale, ”, Vivian Irish Organizations: CNN, Laboratory, University of Utah, Wings, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Notre Dame, Yale Locations: Long, , New York, Yale University’s, Australia

☆ Your coffee’s getting pricier – and climate change could keep it that way
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Erika Tulfo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Roasters and coffee experts are also signaling that prices could remain higher for longer, as factors like climate change reduce the coffee global supply. Climate change drives prices up“Coffee is more sensitive to changes in temperature than many other crops,” said Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “Climate change is getting worse. According to Delany, coffee prices are typically between 100 to 140 cents, but have stayed consistently above that range for the past three years. “There’s a drum beat in the background that is climate change, and that is causing problems,” he said.

Persons: CNN —, Tomas Edelmann, ”, Hamburgo, Miranda, Ryan Delany, there’s, Michael Hoffmann, “, Brazil sneezes, Delany, Arabica, ” Neil Rosser, Lavazza, Miranda Edelmann, Giuseppe Lavazza, Nestle, Sharon Zackfia, William Blair, Rosser, ” Delany, you’re Organizations: CNN, Coffee, International Coffee Organization, United Nations, Coffee Trading Academy, Cornell University’s College of Agriculture, Life Sciences, US Department of Agriculture, Commodities, Financial Times, Nestle Locations: Chiapas, Mexico, Brazil, Arabica, Vietnam, Ukraine, Red

☆ Here are Thursday's biggest analyst calls: Meta, Tesla, Reddit, Amazon, Wingstop, Arm, Dollar General, Carvana, Qualcomm, SoFi & more
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Bank of America reiterates Arm as buy Bank of America said it's sticking with the stock following earnings on Wednesday. Robinson to overweight from neutral JPMorgan upgraded the shipping company following its earnings. Barclays reiterates Meta as overweight Barclays says it's sticking with the Instagram parent following earnings on Wednesday. " Bernstein reiterates Qualcomm as outperform Bernstein says it's sticking with Qualcomm following earnings on Wednesday. Citi reiterates SoFi as buy Citi said it's getting more bullish on the stock following a series of investor meetings.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Zeta, Oppenheimer, Etsy, Baird, Wolfe, Bill.com, Robinson, Raymond James, RDDT, Wells, David Lantz, Zack Fadem, Bernstein, Leerink, Cantor Fitzgerald, Tesla, Cantor, it's bullish, Morgan Stanley downgrades Voya, SoFi, it's Organizations: Mizuho, Bank of America, ARM, Zeta Global, Zeta, JPMorgan, GE, NFL, NBA, MLB, Nascar, Barclays, Meta, Qualcomm, SOX, Elon Musk's, Citi Locations: OW, 2H24, China, bullish

☆ Why orange juice is so expensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Andrea Miller | In Dreajmiller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. orange production has plummeted as the industry faces volatile threats from extreme weather events, an incurable disease and economic pressures. At the same time, orange juice futures have hit record highs. Florida has seen a dramatic orange production decline in recent years. Invaio is one of the companies researching and developing treatments for citrus greening. The volatility of these threats may cut into citrus harvest expectations, which leads experts to believe that higher prices for orange juice are likely to remain, at least in the short term.

Persons: Daniel Munch, Amy O'Shea, We've, O'Shea, Invaio's Trecise Organizations: United States Department of Agriculture, American Farm Bureau Federation, CNBC, Invaio Sciences, Florida Department of Agriculture, Community Services Locations: United States, Florida, Invaio

☆ Forget Big Tech — stocks like these have the biggest upside potential in a volatile market, investor says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"A big tech stock reckoning and correction is inevitable," the chief investment officer told CNBC's " Street Signs Asia " on Tuesday. Calling the euphoria around Big Tech stocks this year "absurd," he said that such excessive investor sentiment and "overdone" momentum "always ends the same." "The biggest risk for the stock market right now is excessive valuations. Such sectors include health care, consumer staples, utilities, and the midstream part of the energy sector, according to him. "The consumers staples sector is being overlooked right now in the market as investors chase returns in the tech sector," he added.

Persons: David Bahnsen, CNBC's, Bahnsen, Mills Organizations: Big Tech, Electric, Gilead Sciences, Mills . American Electric Power, Food Locations: United States, Biopharmaceutical, Gilead

☆ Wall Street says buy stocks that pay dividends with $6 trillion of cash ready to be deployed
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dividend stocks are set to surge as investors deploy $6 trillion from money-market funds, Bank of America says. Investors could be looking to invest their cash as the Fed gets ready to cut interest rates in September. AdvertisementSome of the highest-yielding S&P 500 companies include Walgreens Boot Alliance, Altria, Verizon, Ford, and AT&T. And while the S&P 500 as a whole offers a dividend yield of about 1.25%, there are nearly 300 S&P 500 stocks that offer a higher yield. AdvertisementSome of the high-paying dividend stocks recommended by Belski include Abbvie, Chevron, Duke Energy, Gilead Sciences, and Pfizer.

Persons: —, Savita Subramanian, Subramanian, BMO's Brian Belski, Belski Organizations: Bank of America, Fed, BMO, Gilead Sciences, Service, Treasury, Walgreens Boot Alliance, Altria, Verizon, Ford, Belski, Duke Energy, Pfizer Locations: Chevron, Gilead, Abbvie

☆ Ancient swimming sea bug ‘taco’ had mandibles, new fossils show
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Newfound fossils of the extinct arthropod Odaraia alata recently provided scientists with a first glimpse of Odaraia’s jawlike structures, called mandibles. He conducted the research at the Royal Ontario Museum while pursuing a doctoral degree in the University of Toronto’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology. For the new investigation, the researchers examined around 150 fossils collected by Royal Ontario Museum during expeditions between 1975 and 2000. The carapace folded over Odaraia’s limbs, so it may have been unable to walk on the seafloor, according to the Royal Ontario Museum. More mandibulate mysteriesOne feature that puzzled and intrigued the scientists had never been seen before in Cambrian animals: a single toothlike structure between Odaraia’s mandibles.

Persons: Odaraia, Alejandro Izquierdo, López, ”, “, Jean, Bernard Caron, Joanna Wolfe, ” Wolfe, Wolfe, ” Mindy Weisberger Organizations: CNN, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society, Biological Sciences, University of Toronto’s, Harvard University, “, Scientific Locations: Burgess, British Columbia, Canada, centipedes

☆ Buy this 'cheap' REIT — it's set to offer a yield of nearly 7%, Morningstar says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

It's commonly believed that assets related to real estate, such as REITs, benefit from lower interest rates. A lower interest rate environment also increases the attractiveness of this investment in terms of the higher rental income yield offered by real estate. The rate of office use is set to increase over time , which will in turn lead to a recovery in office real estate demand, he said. "A focus on technology and life sciences market clusters should benefit Kilroy in the long run as we expect buoyant growth in these areas. "The remote work dynamic is probably the biggest source of uncertainty for the office real estate industry.

Persons: Morningstar, Suryansh Sharma, Morningstar's, Dave Sekera, Kilroy, Sharma, Sekera Organizations: U.S . Federal, Kilroy Realty, Morningstar, Apple Locations: REITs, U.S

☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Walt Disney, Dexcom, McDonald's, On Semiconductor and more
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Revvity — The life sciences company advanced 6% after posting a second-quarter earnings beat. Revvity's adjusted earnings of $1.22 per share topped the FactSet estimate of $1.12 per share. The new Marvel movie topped $200 million at the domestic box office, a record opening weekend for an R-rated film. Second-quarter adjusted earnings per share came in at 96 cents, versus the expected consensus estimate of 92 cents, per FactSet. The stock plunged more than 40% in the previous session after Dexcom reported disappointing second-quarter results and offered weak guidance.

Persons: Tesla, Morgan Stanley, Adam Jonas, Walt Disney, Dexcom, — CNBC's Sean Conlon, Michelle Fox, Alex Harring, Jesse Pound, Samantha Subin Organizations: Management, Guggenheim, Ford, Deutsche Bank, Walt Disney —, Marvel, Semiconductor —, Revenue, Dexcom, Health Canada

☆ Artificial Intelligence Gives Weather Forecasters a New Edge
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( William J. Broad | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Artificial Intelligence Gives Weather Forecasters a New Edge The brainy machines are predicting global weather patterns with new speed and precision, doing in minutes and seconds what once took hours. GraphCast GraphCast Miss. specialist at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, the agency that got upstaged on its Beryl forecast. Even so, reliable weather forecasts turn out to be extraordinarily hard to achieve. As a result, weather forecasts can fail after a few days, and sometimes after a few hours.

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The tragedy is sadly far from unique; extreme heat is turning ordinary activities deadly. Heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather, and the human-caused climate crisis is making heat waves more severe and prolonged. What heat does to your heartVideo Ad Feedback A rise in heat and humidity pushes the heart rate up. In extreme heat, your heart must work much harder to keep your body’s internal temperature stable. Blood flow to your brain decreases in extreme heat as breathing speeds up and blood vessels constrict inside your neck and skull.

Persons: Philip Kreycik, Kreycik, Santiago Mejia, Taylor, We’ve, ”, Matthew Huber, Damian Bailey, Bailey, “, ” Bailey, Laura Paddison, Catharina Giudice, Harvard T.H, it’s, Pope Moseley, ” Moseley, Moseley, they’ve, Giudice, Purdue University’s Huber, ” Huber, Richer, Jane Baldwin, Bharat Venkat, Venkat, Jen Christensen, Mary Gilbert, Angela Dewan, Angela Fritz , Mark Oliver, Henry Zerkis, Angelica Pursley , Yukari Schrickel, Elisa Solinas, Lou Robinson Organizations: CNN, Police, San Francisco Chronicle, Purdue University, Olympic Games, University of South, Harvard, of Public Health, Arizona State University, Purdue, University of California, World Health Organization, UCLA, Mary Gilbert Story Locations: Pleasanton, California, Mecca, Paris, University of South Wales, Chan, West Africa, South Asia, University of California Irvine

☆ Venus atmosphere shows potential signs of life — again
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“We’re a long way from saying this, but if there is life on Venus producing phosphine, we have no idea why it’s producing it. So finding them in the atmosphere of Venus is interesting on that basis as well. But further analysis of that data by Clements’ team revealed weak traces of the molecule, reinforcing the theory. “To date, our analyses remain unchallenged in the literature,” said Mogul, who was not involved in the research of Clements’ team. While detecting phosphine and ammonia in Venus’ clouds is exciting, it is just the beginning of a longer journey to unravel the mysteries of that planet’s atmosphere, he said.

Persons: James, Maxwell, “ There’s, ”, Dave Clements, “, we’ve, Clements, ” Clements, Venus, Clements ’, Rakesh Mogul, Jane Greaves, NASA's, ” Greaves, Greaves, Javier Martin, Torres, Martín, Kate Pattle, ” Pattle, Pattle Organizations: CNN, Astronomical Society, Imperial College London, NASA, JPL, Caltech, Saturn, Venus, Telescope, California State Polytechnic University, ” Mogul, Cardiff University, Green Bank, Royal Astronomical Society, European Space Agency, University of Aberdeen, University College London Locations: Hull, England, Hawaii, SOFIA, ALMA, Pomona, United Kingdom, West Virginia

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