In September, about 49% of U.S. residents said they wore masks in public, according to a study by the Covid-19 forecasting team at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Washington. If wearing masks is done 49% during February and states continue to remove the order …
Read More »Striped stripes and other high-contrast patterns disorient bite flies, a new study suggests
But how exactly do the stripes achieve that? Now scientists can eliminate one theory, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society. Researchers looked at the nature of the disorientation effect in flies, and ruled out the hypothesis that a common optical illusion, …
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