An estimated 20 percent of the worlds population has some form of enhanced sensitivity to environmental or emotional stimuli. The feature-length documentary, Sensory Overload, explores the needs of the neurodivergent and sensory sensitive communities, and aims to raise awareness of the need for more sensory inclusive spaces. The film follows Lola Dada-Olley, a mother of two children on the autism spectrum; Dr. Jacob Dent, a dentist who has designed his practice with the needs of the neurodivergent and sensory sensitive communities in mind; and Burnett Grant, a young individual on the autism spectrum who advocates for more inclusive environments. Through these profiles, the film aims to shift the narrative around sensitivities from one rooted in deficiencies or shortcomings towards one of acceptance and the embrace of differences. The film was produced as part of the Sensodyne Sensory Inclusion Initiative to raise awareness of the importance of sensory inclusivity in oral care. Learn more about that initiative here, and catch the film on Hulu beginning March 3.

Mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos owns so much stuff that his investments are effectively going to war with one another. Earlier this week, Bezoss e-commerce company (Amazon) launched a lawsuit against a state government to retaliate against The Washington Post, which Bezos also owns. The lawsuit, filed by Amazon against Washingtons Department of Labor and Industries, asks the government not to comply with a public records request from the Post concerning a recent probe into one of its facilities. Project Kuiper is a private satellite network operated by Amazon that the e-commerce giant uses to sell broadband services to a variety of customers. Unfortunately, it would appear that state regulators have been looking into activities at Kuipers warehouse, which is based in Redmond, Washington. The litigation reveals that the Washington Post has been seeking to gain information about a series of visits made by labor regulators to the facility. Those visits took place between August and October, the lawsuit states, though its unclear what the visits were about. Amazon claims that it is not trying to censor the reporting of the newspaper owned by its founder. Instead, it says it is trying to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets that would critically harm its business if published. Amazon does not seek to prevent disclosure of all of the requested records, the suit says. Rather, Amazon seeks to protect a subset of records that contain trade secrets, as defined by law. The release of this proprietary information would irreparably harm Amazon in such a way that monetary damages would be inadequate to make Amazon whole. The litigation also illustrates the way in which the Washington state government and Amazon have effectively collaborated on media records requests previously. GeekWire notes that Amazon has done this sort of thing before and that, at this point, it could be considered more of a legal technicality than anything. According to the litigation, the government has previously sent Amazon copies of public records requests for the company to review, so that it can identify sensitive proprietary information that should not be revealed. That information can subsequently be blocked from disclosure through a court process.Gizmodo reached out to Amazon and the Washington state government for comment. Amazon has frequently run afoul of labor regulationsboth regionally and nationally. The company has suffered through a number of tussles with Washington state regulators over labor violations in the past. On the federal level, meanwhile, it has perpetually found itself at odds with the nations labor agencies. In November, Amazon joined its business partner SpaceX and other corporate partners to launch a legal war on the National Labor Review Board, claiming that the agency (which is chiefly responsible for protecting Americas workers from corporate predation) was unconstitutional.

By Isaac Schultz Published January 31, 2025 | Comments (0) | A map of LA County showing areas of vegetative buildup. Image: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and soil moisture data from NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center The Southern California wildfires continue to burn across Los Angeles County, and newly revealed satellite imagery shows how recent weather events provided fuel for the blazes. According to data from NASA Landsats, warm and dry weather in Los Angeles in the last two-thirds of 2024 primed the vegetation to catch fire, and for that fire to spread quickly. The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires spread quickly due to dry conditions and strong winds from the east that blew the fires across the city and kickstarted new blazes. According to Cal Fire, the two largest firesthe Palisades and Eaton firesare 98% and 99% contained, respectively. Taken together, the two blazes burned 37,000 acres (150 square kilometers). The satellite imagery offers a retrospective look at how the seeds of the fires were sown by recent climatological trends. A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that a buildup of vegetation between 2022 and 2024, followed by the aforementioned dry conditions, made Los Angeles county a giant tinderbox.2022 and 2023 were especially wet years for Southern California; according to a NASA Earth Observatory release, rainfall totals for downtown L.A. were nearly twice the average both years, according to data dating back to 1877. Atmospheric rivers are regular occurrences on the west coast, especially the Pacific Northwest. Atmospheric rivers are corridors of airborne moisture that are more than 1,245 miles (2,000 kilometers) long and less than 620 miles (1,000 km) wide, according to NASAs Global Hydrometeorology Research Council. The rivers dump rainfall over an area over an extended period of time, often causing flooding and landslides.But the wetness also quenched the thirst of plants, as shown in the map above. Vegetation built up across L.A. Countyup to 30% more than average in some parts of townin summer 2024. The National Interagency Fire Center stated in July that an above-average amount of vegetation was available as fuel for California wildfires to burn. A map of soil moisture in LA County. Photo: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and soil moisture data from NASAs Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center. During the second half of 2024 conditions rapidly changed. The region dried up, in turn parching all the vegetation that had proliferated during the years of intense rainfall. According to the Los Angeles Times, the period from May 2024 through January 2025 was the second-driest on record dating back to 1877.In the map above, the dryness of the soil is laid bare. The map shows soil moisture levels relative to normal in the top 40 inches of soilwhere most plants lay their roots. The map reflects soil moisture conditions on January 7the day the two largest wildfires started. The maps are a reminder that even though the fires felt sudden and surprising, the conditions on the ground were primed for disaster. As climatological swings from very wet to very dry become more common, its crucial that we have satellites surveying areas andhopefullygiving as much warning as possible if a disaster is around the corner.Daily NewsletterYou May Also Like By Lucas Ropek Published January 28, 2025 By Margherita Bassi Published January 14, 2025 By Matt Novak Published January 13, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published January 13, 2025 Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder Published January 11, 2025 By Isaac Schultz Published January 10, 2025

University Stadium / Crea - ArquitetosSave this picture! Fernando Guerra | FG + SGStadiumsPorto, PortugalArchitects: Crea - ArquitetosAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:4586 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Fernando Guerra | FG + SGManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Technal, CIN, JJTEIXEIRA, JNF Architectural Hardware, O/M Light - Osvaldo Matos, Secil Portugal Lead Architect: Andr Camelo More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The project for the rehabilitation and extension of the grandstand and headquarters of CDUP was promoted by the University of Porto and developed by Crea, within the University Stadium context, located in the Quinta do Campo Alegre, and inaugurated in 1953. It was a long process, with a pandemic in between, and has recently re-opened to the community. We were challenged to renovate the existing grandstand building, as well as to integrate the new buildings for the CDUP, and it was this spirit of designing a cohesive whole that inspired the project, also because architecture should not and cannot break with the context, and must be relational in time.Save this picture!Save this picture!The existing grandstand building, of rationalist inspiration, reflected in the composition and sobriety of the elevation to the access road, arranged in strict symmetry and with a composition defined by a metric of pillars that converge in the porticoed entrance - a loggia over the street that marks the passage to the interior of the stadium. The chiseled bas-reliefs in granite mural stand out, with motifs that refer to the imagery of classical antiquity mythology and the ancient original games. Alongside with the structural refurbishment, the interior space was redesigned to include the support areas for the playing fields, with its access made through the central portico open to the street.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The access for the spectators is made through the staircases at the top of the grandstand, and we promoted a significant increase in the covered area by redesigning the roof. On the longitudinal alignment of the existing grandstand we designed two new buildings, which absorb the program of the CDUP headquarters and support for university students, including work offices, meeting and social rooms and multipurpose facilities. In attentive relation with the pre-existing volume and composition, their design was contaminated by the grandstand metric, but it frees itself from that rigorous symmetry, reinterpreted in a more fluid and dynamic movement.Save this picture!Save this picture!To the east, the buildings open out generously onto the playing fields, inscribing the same compositional dynamics in the arrangement of the concrete pillars of the facade, which either create balconies or large planes framing the lawn. There is a certain austerity evident in the grandstand, that was also borrowed for the synthetic approach we are looking for in the new buildings: the pigmented concrete of the faades also invades the interior, and it is the same terracotta-colored material of the ceilings and ground floor, introducing a vibrancy that contrasts with the grandstand sobriety, and with the tree tops of the surroundings. Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Porto, PortugalLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeCrea - ArquitetosOfficePublished on January 31, 2025Cite: "University Stadium / Crea - Arquitetos" [Estdio Universitrio / Crea - Arquitetos] 31 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026133/university-stadium-crea-arquitetos&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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(Credit: Anatolii Stoiko/Shutterstock) NewsletterSign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsOne of the unsung foundations of modern civilization is the ability to detect oscillating fields, be they radio waves, visible light, x-rays, magnetic fields, gravitational waves among the countless varieties. It is no exaggeration to say that our 21st century lives depend on this ability. So it should come as no surprise that physicists would like to do this with ever increasing accuracy and sensitivity. In recent years, they have learned how to use the strange properties of quantum particles to make measurements limited only by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This places important limits on the precision with which certain quantum properties can be known. But by using tricks like quantum entanglement and quantum error correction, they can squeeze this limit further, making it possible to sense oscillating fields, such as gravitational waves, that are so weak they would be impossible to measure by other means. But physicists would dearly love to do better.Computational SensingNow Richard Allen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and colleagues say exactly this is possible by combining the power of quantum sensing with another bizarre property of the quantum world its ability to perform powerful calculations via quantum computation.Their findings not only improve existing sensing techniques but establish a new fundamental limit that defines the ultimate precision with which an oscillating field with an unknown strength and frequency can be detected. In this way, they say, it is possible to significantly beat the currently accepted limits on sensing. We present a quantum computing enhanced sensing protocol that outperforms all existing approaches, say Allen and co.The traditional way to detect an unknown oscillating field is to sample its strength at regular intervals at a known frequency, then at another known frequency and so on. Scanning through the frequencies in this way should eventually find a match with the unknown signal. But Allen and co realized that quantum computing allows an entirely different type of search using a quantum approach known as Grovers algorithm. This uses the quantum phenomenon of superposition to search many frequencies at once. Physicists have long known that a search through a list of N objects takes a time proportional to the order of N. Grovers algorithm does it much faster, in a time of the order of the square root of N. Allen and cos breakthrough is to realize that Grovers algorithm is a game changer because quantum sensing is a search through a number of frequencies. By combining quantum computing with quantum search, the team have established a new bound on how precise quantum search can become. They call this the Grover-Heisenberg limit.The team also show how to implement their approach. One quantum system that is particularly sensitive to external fields is nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. These use the quantum properties of electrons to measure changes in an external magnetic field. And because nitrogen-vacancy centers can be built into quantum computers, this information can also be processed easily. The result is a solid-state machine in which quantum sensors and quantum processors are integrated. They go on to simulate how such an experiment would work and that it would significantly outperform existing techniques. We have shown that by augmenting quantum sensors with a quantum computer, significant metrological gains are achievable, they say. Proof-Of-PrincipleThats interesting work that can be put to good use immediately using current technology. Whats needed now is for somebody to try it. That, presumably, will not take long.But perhaps more significant is that the technique paves the way for a new approach to sensing: By co-designing metrological codes with novel sensing protocols, the resulting logical quantum sensors could robustly interface with the physical world at the hardware level, opening new possibilities in quantum sensing, they conclude.That means were likely to see computational sensors in areas as diverse as magnetic resonance imaging for biological imaging, for dark matter searches and for the detection of gravitational wavesto name just a few. And were likely to see it soon!Ref: Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing: arxiv.org/abs/2501.07625computing1 free article leftWant More? Get unlimited access for as low as $1.99/monthSubscribeAlready a subscriber?Register or Log In1 free articleSubscribeWant more?Keep reading for as low as $1.99!SubscribeAlready a subscriber?Register or Log In

This elegant nanoflower adds antioxidant, antibacterial and antibiofilm properties when applied to electrospun nanofiber bandages. Credit: ACS Advanced Bio MaterialsShareFlowers may be small, but their petals often add up to a comparatively massive amount of surface area. The same can be said even at the microscopic level of a nanoflower, compound combinations in chemistry that grow to form plantlike shapes. With this in mind, a research team based at Italys University of Genoa have designed a novel nanostructure that relies on carnation-like nanoflowers containing enough surface area to host numerous wound-healing drug molecules.The medical innovation is detailed in a study published in the journal ACS Applied Bio Materials. According to its creators, the bandage prototype uses two polyphenol-based materialscopper phosphate and tannic acid. These reagents possess well-documented anti-inflammatory and antibiotic properties. Once mixed and placed in a saline solution, the copper phosphate-tannic acid compounds begin to self-assemble and grow into recognizable, flower-like structures. From there, researchers then carefully attached these nanoflowers on small strips of electrospun nanofabric.Polyphenols, natural compounds abundant in phenolic structures, have received widespread attention due to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anticancer properties, making them valuable for biomedical applications, the team wrote in their study. However, the green synthesis of polyphenol-based materials with economical and environmentally friendly strategies is of great significance. Get the Popular Science newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.With the dressings ready for testing, the team introduced these nanoflower bandage samples into harmful bacteria cultures, including E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. According to an accompanying announcement on January 31st, the nanoflower-covered fabrics not only inactivated the bacteria, but did so through the addition of antibiotic-resistant biofilmsall while protecting lab-grown human cells.Researchers say their new, nanoflower based approach appears to be both cost-effective and extremely efficient, allowing for better means to speed up wound healing and fight infections. The possible benefits from nanoflowers arent limited to medicine, either. Another study, published in October 2024 in Advanced Materials, points to uses across real-time imaging, wastewater purification, and even microrobotics.

NewsAnimalsHotter cities? Here come the ratsCities with higher temperatures and dwindling green space also have more rats Rats love warmer weather. As temperatures in cities increase, people make more rat complaints, a new study shows.Jamie BettsBy Bethany Brookshire1 hour agoIf your city is getting rattier, climate change may be partially to blame.In an analysis of 16 cities around the world, those that saw the biggest temperature rises over the years also had more rat complaints over time, researchers report January 31 in Science Advances. Increased urbanization was also connected with more rat reports. The results suggest that higher temperatures may make rats and the diseases they can spread even harder to keep at bay.