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They aren’t wildfires A report authored by her organization notes that these fires are directly related to humans. “Its incidence in the region is directly related to human action,” the report says in Portugese, “and the flames usually follow the trail of deforestation: the more felled, the more hot spots.” Because the reserve lands are maintained using indigenous land use practices, there’s very limited deforestation, he says. It’s still threatened, however, “because the general ecological systems are drying out....

New Apple AirPods Pro $159 (Was $249) Major savings from Samsung If you’re looking for just about any Samsung product, the company has some serious discounts on its own site right now. It covers everything from smartphones and laptops to home appliances. All the best Apple Black Friday deals Whether you’re looking for a new M1 MacBook Air, AirPods, or an iPad, you can find a deal for Black Friday....

All the gadgets on our Best of What’s New list are groundbreaking, but they can’t all be fun. The lineup of innovations in entertainment, however, boasts more good-time gear than Infinity War had super heroes. This year’s winners include a pro-grade HDTV, speakers that double as modern art, and an ill-fated movie subscription service that shifted the way people go to the theater. But the star of 2018 was gaming....

Even if they’re more concentrated on function than form, filing cabinets are more a boon than a burden. While it may sound counterintuitive, dedicating this space can help free up space, so check out our selections for the best file cabinets. Best overall: Lorell SOHO 18-Deep Two-Drawer File Cabinet Best wooden: DEVAISE Three-Drawer Rolling File Cabinet with LockBest three-drawer: INTERGREAT Locking Three-Drawer Filing CabinetBest for small spaces: COASTER Brennan 3-Drawer Reversible Office DeckBest fireproof: Fireking Turtle Fireproof File CabinetBest budget: Aesthetic File Organizer Box...

Best overall: Neumann TLM 102Best single mic for versatility: AKG C414 XLIIBest all-in-one system: Townshend Labs Sphere L22Best for portability: Blue Yeti XBest for broadcast: Shure SM7BBest budget: Audio-Technica M8000 How we selected the products Apart from considering their specs on paper and basic designs, we evaluated a range of vocal microphones primarily based on their durability, sensitivity, and frequency smoothness (that is, if there’s variation in volume between highs and lows)....

Best overall: Razer Huntsman V2 TKLBest for gaming: SteelSeries Apex Pro TKLBest wireless: Logitech G915 LightspeedBest with hot-swappable switches: Drop CTRLBest for Mac: Keychron K8Best budget: Corsair K70 RGB TKL Champion Series How we picked the best TKL keyboards After a lifetime of PC gaming, several years as a professional writer, and dabbling in game development and media production, I’ve touched more keyboards than I can count. I’m also keenly aware a great gaming keyboard may not be a great choice for office work, for example, and there are features programmers need that writers would never touch....

Of course, like any screen, you can’t just splash it with some water and get scrubbin’. You need to take special care with your TV to avoid damaging it in a disastrous fashion. You should also try to dig up your TV’s user manual. Manufacturers usually include cleaning tips and methods in that little paper booklet, and giving it a quick skim could help you avoid trashing the warranty. But hey, sometimes you don’t have time to read or dig through a bunch of old papers for something you can just learn on the internet....

Historically speaking, video games are a relatively new cultural phenomenon. So, as you might expect, some of the science on their psychological and physiological effects is murky at best. Popular media organizations (hi!) looking for a common link between kids to explain uncommon behavior might also sensationalize video-game research. It’s probably safe to say that video games have some good effects on our health, along with some not-so-good effects, but it’s not always easy to suss out which are which....

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – a group formed by ten eastern states – announced today the results of the first CO2 emissions auction in the United States. They made over $38 billion dollars, selling all of the 12-and-a-half million allowances that were put up for bidding on September 25, with the price of each one-ton allowance working out to about three dollars. The target buyers were, of course, power producers....

The true extent of the devastation has yet to be determined, though 90 percent of the artifacts are thought lost forever. Early news reports of the wreckage and images of the raging fire shocked an international community of curators and museum personnel, who took to public platforms like Twitter. But those on the ground knew the chaos had been a long time coming—and the truth is that many of our cultural treasures teeter on the verge of the same kind of disaster....

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which organizes the international species lists, declared the Scioto madtom extinct in 2013. It had last been seen alive in 1957. But the United States still classifies the catfish as endangered, despite the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—the federal organization in charge of the endangered species list—agreeing that the fish is gone. Without clear incentive to delist the Scioto madtom, yet also without proof that there are any left to save, the catfish has drifted into extinction purgatory....

The same goes for most other junk food. If you buy a 20 ounce bottle of soda, you’ll likely finish it, rather than not stop at 12 ounces and decide that’s about enough sugar for the day. In 2016, the FDA finally came to their senses and decided that food labels must match with the quantities that Americans actually consume. No more hiding the true sugar content of that Coke with a smaller serving size....

Did the collision kick up a tremendous cloud of dust and debris which ultimately blocked out the sun? Or start a massive forest fire whose CO2 release literally cooked life to death? The latest hypothesis, according to a new paper in Geology, posits that the asteroid collided with Earth in the Gulf of Mexico, directly into a huge oil deposit. The fuel would have vaporized instantaneously, then caught fire in the atmosphere, sending a giant ball of flame around the planet....

“We don’t have any evidence that acidification is doing anything harmful to the Great Lakes, but we do know that coral reefs are being harmed in the ocean,” Bootsma said. “Sometimes that ends up with the Great Lakes being a little bit neglected.” Because there is a surfeit of data on oceans and a paucity of data on lakes, the government tends to prioritize funding for research into ocean acidification over lake acidification....

“We unfortunately have not managed to land successfully,” said Opher Doron, the head of Israel Aerospace Industry’s space division, during the livestream of the landing attempt. “We are the seventh country to orbit the Moon, and the fourth to reach the Moon’s surface. It’s a tremendous achievement up until now.” Beresheet’s engine apparently failed during its descent, shutting down inexplicably as the spacecraft was about 4 miles from the ground....

For decades, the Inuit woman, a victim of the 1918 Spanish flu, lay buried in a mass grave under six feet of Alaskan permafrost. But when the frozen ground began to thaw in the 1990s, the Inuit town of Brevig Mission gave scientists permission to dig her up. Her ample body fat kept her lungs insulated against warmer temperatures, helping to preserve the fragments of the virus that lay within....

The term “moonshot” is hopelessly overused, but this kind of daring assignment is exactly what happened when Mercedes-Benz executives decided that the company would build an electric concept car that is capable of traveling 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of driving on public roads without recharging. Oh, and they’d have to design the car from scratch, build it, and prove its capability in an actual 1,000 km road drive in just 18 months....

The closing ceremony of Microsoft’s international student technology competition is a lot like the opening ceremony from five days ago: a lot of “change the world” talk, a dash of “children are our future” and the exact same playlist, though nobody seems to mind. Justin Bieber speaks equally to all nations. There’s even another “Oprah’s Favorite Things” moment. (The competitors are all getting a Windows 8 machine, when it comes out)....

With dreams of Mars on the minds of both NASA and Elon Musk, long-distance crewed missions through space are coming. But you might be surprised to learn that modern rockets don’t go all that much faster than the rockets of the past. There are a lot of reasons that a faster spaceship is a better one, and nuclear-powered rockets are a way to do this. They offer many benefits over traditional fuel-burning rockets or modern solar-powered electric rockets, but there have been only eight U....

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is especially lethal to older people, and it has spread quickly in the close quarters of many facilities. In New York City, some nursing homes were forced to convert refrigerator trucks into temporary morgues to handle the surge of corpses. At one home in New Jersey, as bodies piled up in a small morgue, staff briefly resorted to storing a body in a shed....