Calculate How Many Followers You’ll Need to Be a Full-Time Influencer
I remember the feeling when one of my Instagram posts received a couple hundred likes: “This is my career now—I’m an influencer.” Sadly, I...
Why Your iPhone Battery Is Recalibrating in iOS 14.5
You should regularly take a moment to check on your iPhone’s battery life. And given how easy Apple made it starting in iOS 11.3,...
Childhood psychiatric symptom risk strongly linked to adverse exposures during gestation
Adverse environmental exposures during pregnancy -- including those that occur before pregnancy is recognized -- have a sizable effect on risk for psychiatric symptoms...
The shape of light changes our vision
The perception of light is extremely fast. But the analysis was carried out on molecules in solution in the laboratory. Scientists reproduced the experiment...
How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which dissolved salts can crystallize in a way that makes it easy to remove them from surfaces, potentially...
People of color hardest hit by air pollution from nearly all sources
Various studies show that people of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution in the United States. However, it was unclear whether this unequal...
Uncertainty of future Southern Ocean CO2 uptake cut in half
The Southern Ocean dominates the oceanic uptake of humanmade CO2. But how much carbon dioxide can it actually absorb in the future? This long-standing...
Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won’t keep you up...
To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit...
Awakening ‘ghosts’ in patients with Parkinson’s, a powerful diagnostic tool
Scientists are developing a completely new 'brain stress test' for evaluating the mental status of patients with Parkinson's disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative...
How to Remember the Difference Between ‘Hone’ and ‘Home in On’
There are certain things you’d like to “hone” and there are things you’d like to “home in on,” but these things are not the...
