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That abundance is just one example of Indigenous oyster fisheries across the world that harvested massive quantities of bivalves without wiping out the source. A new global survey published in the journal Nature Communications this week shows how these remnants could provide a roadmap for restoring abundant coastal ecosystems. “This is what [Muscogean ancestors] lived and thrived off of,” says Turner Hunt, a coauthor on the paper and historic preservation officer of the Muscogee Nation....

A flare-up caused by your once juicy secret burger patty has caused the chicken to char, as well as the corn. Everything is torched to a crisp, and now you’ve got to make the dreaded call of shame to a pizzeria. Not exactly the cookout you had planned. OK, you can wake up now. Fortunately, you can prevent this worst-case scenario from coming true, thanks to advancements in cooking technology....

Bagnold was born in 1896, in Devonport, England, to a genteel family with a long tradition of military service. His father had fought in some of Great Britain’s colonial battles in Africa but served mainly as an engineer. Conversant with carpentry, metalworking, and other trades, he was known for being able to make, fix, or jury-rig just about anything, skills he passed on to his son. Young Ralph started studying engineering at age 13....

I went to Raytheon’s Seapower Capability Center in Portsmouth, RI, to get a look inside the futuristic destroyer. The Zumwalt isn’t there; it’s waiting at Bath Iron Works in Maine. Instead, I’m here to see a mock-up of the bridge, the command center where sailors send and receive communications, plot courses, direct weapons, and generally see to the operations of the ship. Apart from the metal staircase on the left side, at first glance the bridge could be mistaken for a modern office of a graphic design firm....

There is currently a shortage of semiconductor chips, which are a key component in nearly all electronics, from iPhones to cars. Originally stemming from Covid-19-related production shutdowns and further impacted by supply chain issues, Gelsinger predicted last summer that it would take a “year or two” before the supply of these chips meets the incredible demand. It’s a timeline he stands by despite significant investments from his company and competitors like Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to increase production, as building new factories and ramping up production takes years....

It’s natural to link the two crashes together, as they involve the same aircraft type. And a number of airlines, including Ethiopian, that fly this model of 737 have chosen to ground them, while others have not. (A Boeing spokesperson says via email that at this time, they don’t have any reason to give “new guidance” to aircraft operators.) But it’s also important to remember that investigators still have a great deal of work to do—even if, importantly, they have already recovered the two black boxes....

One reason is the relatively easy formula for making one. Aside from 3M’s model, most picos use the same DLP projection system from Texas Instruments—using a 0.17-inch-diagonal chip to project low-res images up to 50 inches wide (in a dark room). Optoma was the first to use the technology back in the fall. This week we saw new variants from Toshiba and toymaker Wowwee and two enticing versions from Samsung....

The company hasn’t found any evidence of malicious actions. So, the plan, for now, is to notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users that were included so they can change their passwords if they want to. What happened? Passwords are sensitive information, so they’re typically stored using cryptography to obscure their true nature. Hashing is a technique that effectively makes the password info stored by the companies useless if stolen (and means that internally, employees can’t see it, which is a good thing)....

“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita of the University of California, Berkeley, in a statement. “It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image,” she said. DePater led the observations with the Paris Observatory’s Thierry Fouchet as part of an international collaboration for Webb’s Early Release Science program....

Burns has been at Juul since 2017. During this time, the company grew from fewer than 300 employees to 3,800 and expanded global operations to 20 countries. According Juul’s website, the company says he advocated for Tobacco 21 laws, as well as for stopping the sale of non-tobacco and non-menthol-based flavored Juul pods to retail partners and discontinuing its U.S.-based Facebook and Instagram accounts. Despite this, e-cigarette use among high schoolers increased by 78 percent during his reign, reaching more than 3 million teens since his takeover....

“Between the fire and the ice is this green zone, the habitable zone, where a planet could have liquid water on its surface,” said William Borucki, principal investigator on the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. In that zone, conditions are right for thick greenhouse atmospheres, and for planets with sufficient gravity to hold on to them. Now for the first time, exoplanet hunters think they’ve spotted not one such world, but three, hanging out smack in the middle of that Goldilocks zone, in solar systems very far from this one....

This isn’t Koko’s first experience with cats. Back when she was a teenager, Koko got a grey and white Manx kitten for her birthday. The LA Times reported that she played with the cat for about an hour every day, and they even appeared on the cover of National Geographic together. But in 1985, tragedy struck when her first kitten (named All Ball) wandered onto the highway and was run over by a car, and Koko mourned the loss....

Getting started with L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio If you’re looking to take advantage of L-ISA Studio’s hardware routing and deploy it in a multi-channel recording studio or live sound application, the software is available to individuals at a yearly or monthly subscription cost of €290 and €29, respectively (that converts to roughly the same price in dollars, at the time of publication). The scope of this review is limited to L-ISA Studio Version 2....

Here’s what happened. Listen to the latest episode of Techathlon! The first thing you should do is download the latest episode of our game-based tech podcast. This week we recap the news, learn some interesting stats about email, and roll around in the graveyard of dead Google services. Listen in the player above, subscribe via iTunes, or listen wherever you find quality podcasts. Beats announced its version of the AirPods It’s easy to forget that Apple owns Beats headphones, but we got a reminder last week when the company unleashed it’s $250 Powerbeats Pro, which share many of the same features as their AirPods kin, including the H1 chip....

It doesn’t have to be all about sound Every aspect of the Logitech G435 keeps it casual. It’s plastic frame bends, though not flimsily. The top band is covered in fabric, but has no padding: The headset’s so light, it doesn’t need any. Instead of traditional forks, the cans connect on sliding bars of plastic that seem to slide into place without the need to adjust them to fit your head....

Known to the Japanese as fûsen-uo, the_ Eumicrotremus pacificus_ is native to the cold waters off the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. The fish’s underside features a sucking disk that allows it to withstand heavy currents by clinging to rocks on the seafloor.

The harp consists of a box with a power supply, a 450-milliwatt green laser, a mirror and a motherboard. After determining the beam’s frequency, Hobley was able to tune a sensor so it would detect only the laser and not any ambient light. Touching a beam deflects light toward the sensor, triggering software on a PC that translates hand movements into sounds. He also wrote a script that maps notes from the harp to keyboard controls in the videogame....

Meals catered to specific medical needs also have the potential to save a lot of money. A study published today in JAMA Network Open finds that adding more programs that make and deliver MTMs could prevent hospitalizations nationally and save approximately $13.6 billion each year. The study used data from the 2019 Medical Expenditure Survey Panel Survey and other published research on the health impact of MTM programs. It found that implementing more of these programs around the country could also help prevent 1....

Okay so it’s not a perfect rectangle, but this floating ice sheet gets unsettlingly close. NASA scientists spotted the geometric beauty just off the northern Antarctic peninsula when surveying the region earlier this month as part of Operation IceBridge, the agency’s longest-running polar ice survey initiative. “I thought it was pretty interesting; I often see icebergs with relatively straight edges, but I’ve not really seen one before with two corners at such right angles like this one had,” IceBridge scientist Jeremy Harbeck said in a NASA statement....

Through this collaboration, they’re planning to analyze human brain activity and deep learning algorithms trained on language or speech tasks in response to the same written or spoken texts. In theory, it could decode both how human brains—and artificial brains—find meaning in language. By comparing scans of human brains while a person is actively reading, speaking, or listening with deep learning algorithms given the same set of words and sentences to decipher, researchers hope to find similarities as well as key structural and behavioral differences between brain biology and artificial networks....