Deforestation is getting worse in the Amazon.
Between August2020and July 2,021 the rainforest lost 10.476 square kilometers – an area nearly seven times bigger than greater London and 13 times the size of New York City, according to data released by Imazon, a Brazilian research institute that has been tracking the Amazon deforestation since 2008. The figure is 57% higher than in the previous year and is the worst since 2012.
Summary: Young people who experienced complex early life trauma as a result of interpersonal violence or child abuse had more severe mental health problems and cognitive impairments than their peers with no exposure to trauma.
Source: King’s College London.
New research from King’s has explored whether different types of trauma confer the same risk of future mental illness, in the first study of its kind.
MECII-originating type 2 dentate spikes (DSM) promote dominance of CA1 slow (∼40-Hz) over mid-frequency (∼80-Hz) gamma oscillations when CA1 represents non-local recollections. Dvorak et al. show that DSM coordinates cofiring within DG, CA3, and CA1 networks and optimizes discharge timing between DG and CA1 for information transfer during memory recall.
The Breit-Wheeler process which produces matter and antimatter from photon collisions is experimentally investigated through the observation of 6085 exclusive electron-positron pairs in ultraperipheral Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV. The measurements reveal a large fourth-order angular modulation of cos4Δϕ=(16.8±2.5)% and smooth invariant mass distribution absent of vector mesons (ϕ, ω, and ρ) at the experimental limit of ≤0.2% of the observed yields. The differential cross section as a function of e+e− pair transverse momentum P⊥ peaks at low value with √⟨P2⊥⟩=38.1±0.9 MeV and displays a significant centrality dependence. These features are consistent with QED calculations for the collision of linearly polarized photons quantized from the extremely strong electromagnetic fields generated by the highly charged Au nuclei at ultrarelativistic speed. The experimental results have implications for vacuum birefringence and for mapping the magnetic field which is important for emergent QCD phenomena.
I do not believe it looks practical. But, it is a start.
Policemen guard our towns and cities against multiple and varied threats. Would giving them ‘wings’ make them more effective at containing threats?
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Highlights of the CERN Alumni First Collisions, 2 & 3 February 2018.
