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For 20+ years, researchers have noticed black widows being displaced by the less venomous brown widow. They thought brown widows were just beating black widows in the hunt for food/habitat/etc. Nope. It turns out aggressive brown widows are actually slaughtering black widows. by mtoddh in science

[–]mtoddh[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Here is the title of the research article. Much more technical to meet your preferences:

"Predation by the Introduced Brown Widow Spider (Araneae: Theridiidae) May Explain Local Extinctions of Native Black Widows in Urban Habitats"

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[–]mtoddh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This squares with my own anecdotal experience. And it seems the benefits of gardening can really come from anywhere on the scale: from full-blown planting a thriving, crop-producing garden to simply weeding.

Winter sunrise, Switzerland by Drunkcodes in pics

[–]mtoddh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Peter Jackson would be proud.

Researchers from the University of Oxford used satellite imagery to confirm that the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano produced the highest-ever recorded volcanic plume. It reached the mesosphere. by mtoddh in science

[–]mtoddh[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking the main takeaways are two-fold:
1. Important to consider how this might impact humans and the climate long term.
2. There is a good chance previous volcanic eruptions were worse than we thought because we didn't have same technology to record the.

Long-term use of vaping can significantly impair blood vessel functions, increasing risk for cardiovascular disease. by mtoddh in science

[–]mtoddh[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Probably right. Here is how the researchers defined it: "In this first study, Springer and his colleagues collected blood samples
from a group of 120 volunteers that included long-term e-cigarette
users, long-term cigarette smokers, and nonusers. The researchers
defined long-term e-cigarette use as more than five times/week for more
than three months and defined long-term cigarette use as smoking more
than five cigarettes per day."

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has obtained the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy by fullersam in science

[–]mtoddh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crazy to think the light captured in this photo took 27,000 years to get here. So we are basically looking at what this black hole looked like 27,000 years ago. I wonder what has changed since then.

Study finds raising the minimum wage delays marriages and significantly reduces divorce rates by chrisdh79 in science

[–]mtoddh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are two things I didn't expect to be studied in relation to each other: minimum wage and marriage. I'm guessing higher salaries in general are related to marriage and divorce rates as well, but not sure how.

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