A diver swims around a coral reef in Key West, Florida, on July 14, 2023. Coral reefs in the Florida Keys are at risk of bleaching and death because of very hot water temperatures this summer. Joseph Prezioso / AFP … Read more
“The Loki water state machine was crucial for delivering the sheer volume of large-scale water shots in this movie. In a typical VFX-heavy movie, water shots of this complexity are few and far between and require many iterations and passes … Read more
Experiments on mice show that the hormone leptin influences not only appetite but also pursuit of the opposite sex.Credit: Dung Vo Trung/Look at Sciences/Science Photo Library Under the right circumstances, even moderately hungry mice prefer to socialize with the opposite … Read more
Why? We believe that water should be unconditionally abundant. In the face of extended droughts, aspiring for greater usage efficiency is not, by itself, a sufficiently robust solution. The Colorado River, which supports $1.4t/year of US GDP, has seen annual … Read more
Benito, G., Lang, M., Barriendos, M., Llasat, M.C., Frances, F., Ouarda, T., Thorndycraft, V., Enzel, Y., Bardossy, A., Coeur, D., Bobée, B.: Use of systematic paleoflood and historical data for the improvement of flood risk estimation. Review of scientific methods, … Read more
With the Colorado River’s depleted reservoirs continuing to drop to new lows, the federal government has taken the unprecedented step of telling the seven Western states that rely on the river to find ways of drastically cutting the amount of … Read more
Background: Orthostatic symptoms and syncope are common, even in apparently healthy subjects. In patients with severe autonomic dysfunction, water drinking elicits an acute pressor response and improves orthostatic hypotension. We tested the hypothesis that water drinking also improves orthostatic tolerance … Read more
David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College, is a timeless trove of wisdom — right up there with Hunter Thompson on finding your purpose and living a meaningful life. The speech was made into a thin … Read more
A water dowser with a divining rod in Marin County, California in 1977 (Getty Images) Just so we’re clear: “dowsing” — the act of using a stick or rod like an antenna to divine the location of underground water and … Read more