Thursday, December 19

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7 Best Water Leak Detectors (2024): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors
7Apr By adminNo Comments
Technology

7 Best Water Leak Detectors (2024): Smart Water, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors

Here's what you need to think about when you shop for smart leak detectors and install them in your home.How do water leak detectors work?Water leak detectors can detect water pooling, and some can also detect water dripping or even humidity rising. Premium water leak detectors monitor the flow of water in your pipes. All connect to a hub or directly to your Wi-Fi network to send alerts when they detect a problem.What kinds of water leak detectors are there?Some water leak detectors have cables with sensors on the end, some have water-sensing cords, and others are self-contained with sensors on the top or bottom or both. You have the option of extension nodes with some detectors. At the premium end of the market, you can get water leak detectors that must be fitted to your pipework to mea...
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Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California
29Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California

For the first time in four centuries, it’s good to be a beaver. Long persecuted for their pelts and reviled as pests, the dam-building rodents are today hailed by scientists as ecological saviors. Their ponds and wetlands store water in the face of drought, filter out pollutants, furnish habitat for endangered species, and fight wildfires. In California, Castor canadensis is so prized that the state recently committed millions to its restoration.While beavers’ benefits are indisputable, however, our knowledge remains riddled with gaps. We don’t know how many are out there, or which direction their populations are trending, or which watersheds most desperately need a beaver infusion. Few states have systematically surveyed them; moreover, many beaver ponds are tucked into remote streams fa...
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New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods

Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ian dumped up to 10 inches of rain on New York City in just two hours, the metropolis is once again inundated today by extreme rainfall. It is one of the many cities worldwide grappling with a counterintuitive effect of climate change: Sometimes, it will get wetter, not drier. On a warming planet, it’ll rain more and individual storms will get more intense. This pain will be especially acute in urban areas, which are built on stormwater infrastructure designed to handle the rainfall of yesteryear. Think back to what the builders of the last century wanted: sewers and canals that funneled rainwater as quickly as possible into a river, lake, or ocean, before it had a chance to accumulate. That worked fine, most of the time. But over the intervening ...
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The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
25Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world’s oceans. Little is known about these underground organisms, who represent most of the planet’s microbial mass and whose diversity may exceed that of surface-dwelling life forms. Their existence comes with a great puzzle: Researchers have often assumed that many of those subterranean realms are oxygen-deficient dead zones inhabited only by primitive microbes keeping their metabolisms at a crawl and scraping by on traces of nutrients. As those resources get depleted, it was thought, the underground environment must become lifeless with greater depth.In new research publi...
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Woman dies from water toxicity; here’s what happens if you drink TOO much water after feeling dehydrated
4Aug By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Woman dies from water toxicity; here’s what happens if you drink TOO much water after feeling dehydrated

In another recent case, a Canadian Tik Toker was hospitalized for water poisoning after drinking four liters of water everyday for 12 days for the '75 Hard' challenge. Michelle Fairburn explained on social media that she thought she had water poisoning, which occurs after one drinks "more than three to four liters of water in a few hours," New York Post reported.The '75 Hard' challenge asks individuals to follow a strict diet, complete two sets of workouts 45 minutes each, take a progress picture, drink one gallon of water and read 10 pages of a book on a daily basis. This is a strict challenge and in case one misses out on the challenge, they need to restart it. It is important to not take part in any risky challenge that can pose a risk to your health. If you want to experiment, ensure ...
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The Wind, the Water, the Islands: Exploring Stockholm’s Archipelago
25Jul By adminNo Comments
Travel

The Wind, the Water, the Islands: Exploring Stockholm’s Archipelago

The moment the motor turned off, I was hooked.It was 20 minutes into my first Swedish sailing trip on a blazingly sunny morning in late June. I’d set sail with two friends from their summer house on Kilholmen, a wooded islet in the central archipelago, about an hour by bus (then a five-minute boat ride) from Stockholm. After motoring through a narrow waterway, past smooth, rounded cliffs backed by pine forests and the occasional red timbered cottage, we entered a wide-open bay, steered the bow into the wind and raised the sails. When the puttering motor was cut, it was suddenly quiet, just the wind in my face and the sparkling archipelago all around.The sheer magnitude of Stockholm’s archipelago is astounding. Shaped like a fan spreading out from the capital into the Baltic Sea, this wate...
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