US labor market can affect ‘people who are not even here’

Example migrant destination distributions for two municipios. These maps show the distributions of US destinations for migrants from two different municipios located in the state of Guanajuato: Dolores Hidalgo and Jaral del Progreso. Dolores Hidalgo tends to send migrants to US destinations that experienced relatively mild labor demand declines, while Jaral del Progreso tends to …

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Mapping the Milky Way’s magnetic field in 3D

Sky location of the surveyed area of about four square degrees. Left: full-sky map of the dust emission Middle: a zoom-in of the map toward the surveyed regions, which includes part of the North Celestial Pole Loop on the East of the map. Right: a closer view of the surveyed region. Black segments indicate the …

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Global study shows a third more insects come out after dark

Credit: Nicky Bay, provided, used with permission A groundbreaking study, led by Dr. Mark Wong of The University of Western Australia, has provided the first global picture of insect activity patterns across the fundamental day–night cycle. “Through our extensive research, we’ve finally been able to provide a definitive answer to the age-old question of whether …

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Yangon parks offer heat wave relief

Yangon’s parks offer some relief from scorching temperatures during daily electricity blackouts. As the sun sets on another scorching Yangon day, the hot and bothered descend on the Myanmar city’s parks, the coolest place to spend an evening during yet another power blackout. A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted Southeast Asia this week, …

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Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket America

A drop of water lands on the back of a periodical cicada, a member of Brood X, on June 03, 2021 in Columbia, Maryland. They’re loud. They’re sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month up to a trillion of them will engulf suburbs and woodlands across America. Two cicada “broods” are set for a …

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New study suggests it’s time to ditch long-held stereotypes about stoners

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Stoners are not as lazy and unmotivated as stereotypes suggest, according to new U of T Scarborough research. The study, published by the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, surveyed chronic cannabis users to see what effect getting high has on their everyday lives. “There is a stereotype that chronic cannabis …

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NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet

This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data in November 2023. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. In mid-April 2024, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared success after receiving good …

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Optical barcodes expand range of high-resolution sensor

An innovative optical sensing technology, developed in Yang’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering, utilizes multimode resonance to boost sensing capabilities. By analyzing patterns in the resonance spectrum, the innovative barcode technique provides detailed information about the sensor’s surroundings, offering enhanced dynamic range and accuracy in various sensing applications. Credit: Yang Lab The same …

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