As the streets of San Francisco emptied in the first month of the epidemic, the city’s male birds began to sing more softly and improve their range of sound, according to a new study published Thursday. The paper describes in the growing body of research how animals describe – from …
Read More »
Researchers in China have found that people who wear glasses have a lower risk of catching COVID-19. Authors of the study published in Jama Ophthalmology, Noted that since the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, few patients with spectacles have been hospitalized suffering from COVID-19. For further investigation, they …
Read More »
The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
Read More »
Most of us know that lack of sleep has a profound effect on how we can function on a daily basis. From irritability and growing clumsiness to more susceptibility to colds and chronic diseases, there is enough research to pursue it. Now, a major new study also confirms that sleep …
Read More »
Trees that grow fast die young, jeopardizing the release of carbon dioxide that challenges predictions that will be a “sink” for forest-planet-temperature emissions, scientists said Tuesday. The cover absorbs a significant amount of carbon dioxide which is emitted by burning fossil fuels and plays a crucial role in estimating our …
Read More »