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Planet Earth II on the BBC came to an end on Sunday after six amazing episodes. Sir David Attenborough, who is 90 years old, made his first and only on-camera appearance. The whole season was narrated by Attenborough's well-known voice, but he didn't appear on screen until the last few minutes of the last episode to make a final, emotional plea to viewers: please don't lose touch with the natural world.

Everyone is familiar with the terms "dry January" and "sober October," which refer to a limited period of time during which participants deliberately abstain from drinking alcohol as a way to "reset" or "reboot" their bodies. Avoiding alcoholic beverages does not have to be a passing fad that is limited to a particular calendar month.

Researchers have found elephant ivory seized decades ago is still being discovered in raids. The Burundian authorities have been keeping the tusks in storage for some time now after seizing them from poachers. Researchers in this study employed DNA and carbon dating to prove that some of the stockpiled materials had made their way into the hands of traffickers. The authors argue that confiscated materials should not be kept in archives.

Winter and fall have not been kind to us in recent years, but a sneaky omicron mutation could lead to an outbreak of COVID-19 this fall. In 2020, COVID-19 instances started to increase in October. And last year, we were, in a sense, in the quiet before the storm as the omicron variety started on its path to global dominance at the end of November, while the delta-driven case counts were steadily declining. What will happen as omicron continues to develop and many people stop using masks in our third pandemic winter?

NUC-7738, a chemotherapeutic agent Himalayan fungus based drug is 40 times more effective at killing cancer cells than its original parent chemical. Thanks to a partnership between Oxford University and NuCana, the medicine has been developed and is undergoing clinical testing. Together, they are looking at the medicine made from fungus. Early results from a trial done by Clinical Cancer Research are good.

The science of appearance men s fashion grooming and lifestyle examines how society and the science of attraction have influenced men's appearance. It talks about how men can use their looks to attract potential partners and how their choices in style, grooming, and lifestyle can affect their overall health and happiness. Nobody would deny that your appearance is important to you.

With the conflict in Ukraine, space has become an invisible front and has been a major advantage to armies on the ground. It's the "first war where commercial space capabilities have really played a significant role," as the head of the US Space Force, General Jay Raymond, put it in an interview.

It was successful! The DART mission successfully altered an asteroid's path. To date, this is the first time humans have manipulated a celestial body on purpose. As part of a test of a possible way to stop asteroids, NASA's DART satellite cut the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos by 32 minutes.

A new study reveals that bull sperm move more efficiently in groups, which may have implications for understanding human fertility. A team led by physicist Chih-kuan Tung and colleagues found that this behavior improves the likelihood that clusters of cooperating sperm outpace solitary sperm in the mating race in simulated reproductive tracts of animals like cattle and humans.

According to snow experts, Scotland is snow-free for the fourth time in the past six years. The Sphinx in the Cairngorms, which was the snowdrift that lasted the longest in the UK, has finally gone away. A snow expert named Iain Cameron tweeted on Friday that the notorious snow hole had disappeared sometime during the previous night.

Understanding this reality and putting it into practice are the foundations of scientific prayer. It tunes in to God's thought patterns of health, harmony, and perfection and then employs willpower to channel energy to make those patterns come to pass. The science of prayer allows you to align your minds and wills with God's consciousness and purposes.

But through the open interchange of ideas, science has much more to offer business (and business, in turn, may advance science). But mixing science and business could be dangerous for inventors and they make mistakes for bad preparation.

Who would have thought companies like Sony and Bose would enter the hearing aid market? Well, since they’re in the audio business, why not also create something for those who have difficulty in hearing? While Bose already made an exit from the hearing aid market, Sony introduces its OTC hearing aids. Unlike Bose, will Sony succeed?

COVID-19 hasn't been wiped out yet, and another bad thing is that a new disease that kills people is now spreading. The health authority warns the public about the life-threatening legionnaires' disease that killed four individuals recently. Apart from the fatality record, the disease was said to be the cause of a pneumonia-like outbreak that sickened 11 people.

Argentina's local health officials confirmed the deaths of three people this week due to mystery pneumonia of unknown origin. Experts have ruled out COVID-19, influenza, and hantavirus as possible causes, but six others have already been affected.

Melting glaciers, of all things, could be at the bottom of most people’s lists of things to worry about. Or perhaps it didn’t even get included. Not that they care less about this environmental problem, but it could be more of... lack of information, perhaps?

NASA had to delay the launch of their new historic Artemis 1 Moon mission. There was a problem with one of the rocket's four engines, and the crew couldn't fix it. This was supposed to be NASA's first step towards getting people back to the moon and, ultimately, deeper into space.

Applications of nanotechnology in agriculture have enormous promise since they can improve people's quality of life.

The drought in Europe brought unexpected discoveries. “Lost” villages were “found.” Dying grasses revealed hints of marvelous gardens of long ago. Rocks “warning” people. What does this drought really want to tell people?

In the field of atmospheric science, people study how the atmosphere works and how it is connected to other systems, especially the hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and space. Because of this, it is a broad field, which makes it hard to describe the most important things. There is also a lot of overlap with other important issues in the earth and environmental sciences.

Extreme weather events like heatwaves and heavy rainfall are becoming more frequent, intense, and prolonged as the planet warms. Thunderstorms, lightning, and floods are expected throughout the UK due to heavy rain after a heatwave.

Flash floods could occur if there is a period of heavy rain that follows very dry weather, according to experts. Currently, the UK is sweltering in a four-day heatwave that has caused water shortages and wildfires. The video shows why flash floods are so bad after heatwaves.

Arctic warming is roughly four times faster than the rest of the planet. Recent research finds that Arctic warming is roughly four times faster than the rest of the planet.

In some places, the longest river in one country is almost completely dry because of the oppressive heat wave in July and the lack of rain. This happens when France's longest river dries up due to extreme heat.