Ai Can Tell Which Buildings Are Energy Efficient From The Outside - [2022-10-05 Leukxe]

International rugby union players face higher risk of dementia:

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Men who played rugby union for Scotland are much more likely to develop dementia, Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron disease than the rest of the population

AI can tell which buildings are energy efficient from the outside:

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AI can use images from Google Street View and satellites to estimate building energy efficiency across entire cities. That could guide investments in reducing energy waste and fighting climate change.

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose:

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A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in the ocean or created in freshwater ponds

Why itching can be contagious: Reflex pathway is identified in mice:

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Contagious itching may have evolved as a survival mechanism, such as by alerting other animals in the group that a parasite could be circulating

Eating in a 10-hour window may reduce the health harms of shift work:

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Firefighters working 24-hour shifts who only ate between 9am and 7pm saw improvements in heart health, blood sugar and blood pressure

Nord Stream pipes leaked 'enormous' amount of methane into atmosphere:

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Satellite measurement should reveal just how much potent greenhouse gas was released by the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, but for now the estimates put it in the order of hundreds of millions of cubic metres

Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic:

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The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide stressful events

What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?:

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A new study points to pyridine pollution as the most likely culprit behind the deaths of crustaceans, with dredging in the river Tees a possible source

Nobel prize in physics awarded to pioneers of quantum information:

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The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Megadrought could become the new normal in the southwestern US:

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Human-caused climate change is making droughts more severe – and could shift some regions of North America into permanent drought conditions