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And as humans work towards long-term space exploration, pristine space habitats are becoming more important—especially as there’s evidence that the ecosystem is already rapidly evolving. “Microbes carried from Earth to the ISS are mutating,” says Malgorzata Holynska, an ESA materials and process engineer who acts as the technical officer for the project. “Strains are evolving that are resistant to common antimicrobial agents.” In the past few years, the urgency to battle these strains has ramped up....

The oil came from two 3.15 million gallon-capacity tanks at the Motiva petroleum storage facility, in Sewaren, N.J., damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Each contained 336,000 gallons of oil prior to the storm. The site is located on the Arthur Kill, a 10-mile-long, 600-foot wide tidal strait dividing mainland New Jersey from Staten Island, N.Y. According to MarketWatch, Motiva has estimated that around 227,200 gallons of oil leaked from the damaged tanks....

Fortunately, Twitter is making it easier to add content warnings to your posts. That way, you can keep on tweeting whatever your little fan heart desires while still protecting those who’re in the dark from getting seriously spoiled. And keep in mind that content warnings only work with media (images and video), so if you’re planning to use your 280 characters to talk about that nerve-wracking cliffhanger in episode six, people will still be able to read it, no matter how many warnings you place on your tweet....

“A car is a machine and it was meant to be operated,” says Dave Cappert from the tech department at the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. “All the systems are designed to have fluid or air running through them and they require regular operation.” Even if you’re not doing your commute or making your usual trips around town, you should still take regular time to care for your vehicle every week....

How to use Apple’s Text Size widget You can only unlock the incredible power to shrink and grow text at will via the Control Center. To get there, open the Settings app, tap Control Center, and find the Text Size option. Tap the green plus sign next to it to add it to the list of active tools. You can also touch and drag the three lines to the right of each item to rearrange how they appear on the screen....

Blood banks can be especially critical for trauma cases. In most metropolitan areas, it takes about 30 minutes from the time of the 911 call to get an injured individual to a hospital, says CJ Winckler, an emergency medicine doctor at UT Health San Antonio and deputy medical director for the San Antonio Fire Department. Within that time, the patient can lose several pints of blood (on average, adults hold 1....

CDC director Rochelle Walensky said on CBS that 90 percent of COVID transmission takes place in those first five days. And with Omicron causing a tidal wave of relatively mild COVID cases, the agency argues that the step is necessary to avoid de facto lockdowns when millions of people isolate at once. With the expiration of mandatory paid leave and financial support for businesses, isolations and lockdowns can be financially devastating....

There are 300,000 edible plant species you can find outside—at parks and around your home. They are free, they can be delicious and, above all, plentiful. But when it comes to foraging, not all plants are created equal. Worry not—just by following a few rules you’ll be able to take advantage of this nutritious abundance without becoming ill (or worse). Find yourself a local guide It’s not always easy to tell the difference between star-of-Bethlehem and field garlic....

“It’ll never work,” he told me. Challenge accepted. After all, humans were making pottery thousands of years before community centers started teaching the skill. I made a pot, and you can too. Materials: Clay-rich dirtFirewoodSawdustWater Tools: 2 buckets1 cloth (like an old sheet)1 shovel1 strainer (or a window screen)1 concrete slab (optional) Make your own clay You can’t make pottery without clay. Luckily, Earth is covered in the stuff, and you’ll likely find it in any dirt that gets slippery when it rains....

How to play Wii and GameCube games without emulators But before we get into that, let’s talk about the easiest way to play retro titles on the Wii. The Wii can, of course, launch Wii games, which are solidly in the “classic” category at this point. As of 2022, the console is 16 years old—the same age the Super Nintendo was when the Wii launched in 2006. Time sure flies. The Wii is readily available, compatible with thousands of games, and can quickly be hacked to run emulators for the NES, SNES, and even the Nintendo 64....

If you’re headed up, here’s how to prepare and treat symptoms, and what to look out for to ensure you stay happy and healthy while closer to the sky. “You’re still breathing 21 percent oxygen, it’s just more spread out,” explains Graham Prather, education manager at National Outdoors Leadership School (NOLS) and in charge of wilderness medicine courses. Essentially, the higher you go, the less efficient your breathing becomes, resulting in less and less oxygen every time you inhale....

That photo you like so much and looks great on your screen might be dull, lifeless, and even blurry on paper. There are a lot of variables to juggle if you want to make it pop and look as good as it does on screen, so let us help you get them all right. Consider your printer A harsh truth: not all printers can print photos, and even those that can might not do a good job....

My TV, built by Sony and running the Google TV operating system, has four streaming buttons as well as a row of colored buttons that I don’t use. Instead of having them sit there doing nothing, I remapped them to do launch services I do use, and take screenshots, for example. To have them do that (or anything else), all you need is a remapper app, which you can find on the Google Play store on your TV....

Stats Time: about an hourMaterial cost: $25 to $50Difficulty: Easy Tools An allen wrench setA Phillips-head screwdriverA flathead screwdriverA cleaning brush (old toothbrushes also work great)A shop vacuumA digital angle gaugeA combination square Materials Compressed airDry lubricant (or whatever lubricant your saw manual recommends)Paste wax Instructions Unplug your saw. A plugged-in table saw is a dangerous table saw. Never work on your saw, or any tool, while it has any connection to power....

You can enable this function in about 10 seconds by tapping through the Settings app, but that’s a relatively glacial pace compared to what you can do with shortcuts. Anyway, enough dawdling, let’s get to it. To do so, open Settings, find Accessibility, scroll down to Accessibility Shortcut, and select Background Sounds. Now, you can press the Home or side button on your device three times to bring up your list of shortcuts....

The new Siri is smarter Apple opened Siri up to third party developers for this update, which allows you to control a bunch of apps using just your voice. You can send messages on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Skype just by asking Siri to do so. Siri can call you an Uber or Lyft. But first, you need to update your apps to do this. Go to your “App Store” app and tap “Updates” on the bottom, and scroll through the list of available updates....

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in photography are more widespread than ever before, touching every part of the digital image-making process, from framing to focus to the final edit. But they’re also widespread in the sense of being spread wide, often appearing as separate apps or plug-ins that address specific needs. That’s starting to change. As AI photo editing tools begin to converge, isolated tasks are being added to larger applications, and in some cases, disparate pieces are merging into new utilities....

Bloom’s position doesn’t end at home. She’s part of a small group—which also includes the musician Moby—petitioning Los Angeles to introduce a vegan diet for all dogs in the city’s shelter system. “My friend Roger Wolfson is the L.A. animal commissioner and he started asking himself why they rescue chickens and rabbits and yet feed the dogs food that has chickens and rabbits in it,” says Bloom. She estimates that making this change could save up to 30,000 pounds of meat per month....

Some birders feel uneasy about seeing hummingbirds at feeders—there’s a feeling that it’s somehow too easy. Real birding should be difficult and challenging, the sort of activity that involves hardship and infers some sort of superior caliber to the birders in question. Real birders, in the neotropics, suffer for their birds, and see them only fleetingly. For many years antpittas were the ultimate birder’s bird in South America—notoriously shy and skulking creatures of dense forest understory that asked a lot of anyone who wished to catch a glimpse of their kind....

The new digital tool will be integrated with the hotel chain’s World of Hyatt app, and guests can download the app, which will prompt them to add their room key to their Apple Wallet after booking a reservation (to do so, users will need an iPhone running iOS 15 or an Apple watch running iOS 8). The key won’t become active until the guest checks in, at which point it will show the room number....