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Budget-friendly: Syntus Cotton Adjustable Bib Apron Grab a two-pack of these adjustable, water-resistant aprons with pockets for the price of one apron. These are made out of machine-washable, wrinkle-resistant polyester and come with two pockets for holding your phone or other essentials during cooking, and spans from chest to knee. These aprons come in black, red, purple, stripes, and other colors—and if the material isn’t to your liking, you can grab a set in cotton or thicker polyester for a couple bucks more....

To accomplish this, Ferrari’s patent describes the future system (although there’s no promise it’ll ever exist) as using one or more thermal cameras to observe the occupants of the vehicle. A car equipped with this tech could use a ceiling-mounted camera to monitor how many occupants are in the cabin at any given time, where they are positioned relative to the vehicle’s climate zones, and note their body temperature. Additional cameras can be placed around the cabin to measure the temperature of different areas of an occupant’s body....

Don’t be too jealous; a monster throw doesn’t come easy. The forward football toss has been called “the most complex motor skill in all of sports.” Every part of the body gets used in one chain of events, and one smidgen’s difference in that chain can affect the throw. The ball has to make it to the receiver in a window of plus-or-minus one-tenth of a second, says Dr. Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska–Lincoln professor and author of Football Physics: The Science of the Game....

Most people may believe obesity is simply the result of eating too much or not choosing healthy food choices. While these factors do play a role, inside the body, the situation is far more complex. Researchers have been examining the molecular mechanisms of obesity for years and identified a variety of reasons for significant weight gain. Over the years, one central factor has come to light with respect to this disease: inflammation....

Made out of a formula that was discovered loosely placed in an old New England Cookbook, this all-natural shampoo bar is made of just three ingredients: saponified olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil. It’s effective and doesn’t strip your hair of its natural oils, so no conditioner is needed. Because of its compact size, it’s also great to toss in a suitcase or carry-on. This bar is safe for color-treated hair, and also comes in a variety of scents and types, from Sweety and Spicy (cinnamon and ginger) to Heali Kiwi (to treat scalp problems)....

The VMU is a not-uncommon topic in certain hobbyist corners of the internet, and the posters are, amazingly, often doing more than talking about the gadget. People make games for the VMU, there are sites for downloading emulations of VMU games, there are recent YouTube reviews with non-negligible hits, and, inexplicably, someone has created a portrait of the gadget done in the oil-painted style of George Washington crossing the Delaware....

Billed as a disaster relief satellite, the Gaofen 4 was placed in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO). GEO satellites constantly stay above a patch of Earth, thus providing constant 24 hour surveillance of a geographic area. By contrast, low earth orbit (LEO) satellites such as the U.S. KH-11 spy satellites are closer to the Earth, so their speed exceeds that of the Earth’s rotation (meaning that they cannot maintain continuous surveillance over specific locations)....

The Garmin Instinct 2 Solar’s design As already mentioned, the Garmin Instinct 2 Solar doesn’t look very different from the original Instinct Solar. The case is made of the same fiber-reinforced polymer, the display is still Garmin’s transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) display, and both versions are topped with Corning Gorilla Glass for durability. The Power Glass tech allows the watch to charge by absorbing sunlight through both visible side panels and an invisible layer atop the display....

The World Health Organization responded by forming an expert committee to create an international advisory on gene editing in humans, in an attempt to reach some kind of consensus on what is and is not okay. But gene editing has already gone much farther, and is moving much faster, in non-human animals and plants. Are there sweeping international pronouncements on the way other animals should or should not be gene edited?...

“I kept on seeing this other ice cap in the southern part of the scenes I was looking at via satellite,” says University of Colorado geologist Michael Willis. He was studying the Academy of Sciences Glacier, Russia’s largest, but what really caught his eye was the nearby Vavilov Ice Cap. It was doing something totally unexpected, he says: moving, and quickly. The ice cap—the term refers to a type of glacier, of which “polar ice cap” is a subset—is of a kind that’s supposed to be very stable....

I’m talking controls here, my friends. GTA is often described as a driving and shooting game, but the controls for neither activity approach the level of sophistication and precision that you’d find in a first-class driving game (Burnout or even Project Gotham Racing) or shooter (Gears of War, for example) played on the Xbox 360. The first problem with driving is that you can’t see where you’re going before making a turn....

With the more transmissible Delta variant circulating widely and coronavirus cases rising rapidly across the country, resisting pandemic fatigue is paramount. Renewing our commitments to common-sense public health strategies like hand-washing, in addition to getting vaccinated, will be necessary to stem this latest wave. Masking indoors, even for vaccinated individuals, is again recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But masks alone won’t get the job done. Social distancing is also important, as is washing your hands thoroughly and often, and avoiding touching your face with unclean hands....

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In the past few years, teams of researchers have been racing against time to study and understand the Thwaites Glacier—the formal name of the so-called Doomsday glacier—and have dispatched several tools to help them do so, including an auto-sub named Boaty McBoatFace. Previous work has been focused around figuring out how the glacier is melting, and how it’s affecting the seawater ecology in its immediate environment. Now, a new study in Nature Geoscience is using machine learning to analyze the ways in which the ice shelf has fractured and reconsolidated over a span of six years....

A growing number of publications The number of publications alone on the topic tell a story: They doubled in the last decade, from 162,444 in 2010 to 334,497 in 2021. The most popular AI categories that researchers and others published on were pattern recognition, machine learning, and algorithms. What’s more, the number of patent filings related to AI innovations in 2021 is 30 times greater than the filings in 2015. In 2021, the majority of filed patents were from China, but the majority of patents actually granted were from the US....

Formula One termed these systems “Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems” or “KERS.” “Today we would call that a ‘regenerative braking system,’ recovering waste energy from the car,” said Cowell. “The mass and velocity of the car, recovering that energy through an electric motor, energy converted in the power electronics and stored in the cells of the energy store, then using that energy to then propel the car as the car accelerates....

The International Geophysical year was an 18 month period from July 1957 to December 1958 during which international teams of scientists would pool resources to study the Sun during a solar maximum and all related geophysical phenomena. There had been two such international collaborations before. The first International Polar Year between 1881 and 1884 saw some 700 scientists from eleven nations at twenty-seven research stations around the world gather data about the Earth’s poles....

At least, that’s how physicists shaped the first self-standing time crystal in a lab last year. Now, they’ve turned into an even more tangible object by creating a time crystal from common elements that can withstand room temperature. They shared their design in the journal Nature Communications on February 14. If you’re wondering what a time crystal is (outside of pulp science fiction), most physicists also had the same question until pretty recently....

Last week, officials in India announced that the country would no longer accept post-consumer plastic imports, in an effort to fight the pollution emitted in processing the often highly-contaminated loads the U.S. and other countries have been sending over. The ban won’t fully go into effect until August, but will only compound the problems America has been facing with its recyclables. A little over a year ago, China also stopped accepting most recycling imports, including post-consumer paper and plastic....

Ticks carry over a dozen diseases, literally inflate with blood, drill tiny holes in your skin, and oh, did we mention that actually actively hunt for you? So there’s that. You probably thought that ticks were just kind of…there. Maybe they sometimes fall and land on your body, or you happen to brush by them on a tree. You assumed that the natural world didn’t have it out for you....