- You can use artificial intelligence and satellite images to count the number of elphants found in the wild.
- It appears that a billion people on Earth now use an iPhone. The number would be higher if not for the pandemic.
- A supplement used by body builders (alpha-ketoglutarate) made old mice healthier, and they lived longer as a result. The treated mice looked biologically younger.
- According to an article published in Nature, the Antartic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades. The sea ice area has also grown.
- It appears that children with autism become less active physically over time compared to neurotypical children.
- We are getting a signal from the closest star to our own (Proxima Centauri) and the signal might be a sign of intelligent life.
- New research suggests that adding cheese and red wine to the diet daily, and lamb on a weekly basis, may also improve long-term cognitive outcomes.
Science and Technology links (February 6th 2021)
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The Antarctic is not warming – this fits nicely with a recent paper Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials. The mechanism underlying the termination of both glacials and interglacials is not yet understood but I suspect that climate models with any predictive power will be tightly coupled with models of the hydrosphere and cryosphere (glacial water) and not just the CO2 of the atmosphere.
The activity of kids with autism piece is glaringly obvious in hindsight. The predominant physical activity of young boys is team games. Boys with autism spectrum disorder often find themselves marginalised socially, so the opportunity to play these games is diminished accordingly.