According to Royal Bahamas Police spokeswoman Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings, the family was at a popular snorkeling spot near Green Cay off of the coast of Nassau in the northern Bahamas. She added that the family witnessed the attack and identified the shark involved in the incident as a bull shark. Police also say that the tour company and woman’s family were involved in the rescue. In a statement to the Associated Press, Royal Caribbean International said that the injured woman died after arriving at a local hospital for treatment....

But a new study presented at the 2019 American Geophysical Union conference demonstrates that perhaps carbon dioxide itself should be thought of as a pollutant, capable of slowly dulling our ability to think. The findings are included in a preprint online at EarthArXiv. In recent years, several studies have found a link between high carbon dioxide levels indoors and cognitive decline. When we’re indoors, the carbon dioxide we breathe out becomes concentrated, particularly if there’s a lot of people breathing and ventilation is slow....

Photos released on the MTA’s Flickr page show a few pieces of the new route in-progress–and just how hard it is to dig a miles-long tunnel under a densely-populated island city. Click here to enter the gallery

In 1964, Popular Science reporter E.D. Fales Jr. wrote this feature story about the crew of Snowcloud One going into the eye of Cleo, only to find it was not calm but filled with 125 mph winds. The Ordeal Of Snowcloud One Cleo was a hurricane with a difference, they discovered, as they probed for its calm eye—and found only 125-m.p.h. winds WHEN hurricane hunter Snowcloud One took off last August from Guantanamo Bay airfield she looked too frail and slender for the ordeal ahead: a flight into the eye of one of the most vicious tropical storms in recent years—Hurricane Cleo....

But on this warm May day, this ghost town amounts to an urban playground for a band of extreme-trick artists. Their vehicles of choice: pogo sticks. Within minutes of arriving, six jumpers begin sizing up the obstacles over which they’ll bounce, flip, and spin. A small, fenced enclosure catches the eye of 19-year-old Konner Kellogg, who stands five-foot-nine. He steps onto his pogo’s pegs and within three bounces is sailing more than 8 feet into the air....

In addition to better performance, the software brings lots of cool new features. To help you take advantage of all of these expanded abilities, we’ve reviewed the best that iOS 12 has to offer. Here’s how to try out its new tricks. Manage your screen time Spending too much time on your phone can harm your health—but a new tool called Screen Time aims to cut down on your device addiction....

“The Dr. Oz Show” frequently focusses on essential health issues: the proper ways to eat, relax, exercise, and sleep, and how to maintain a healthy heart. Much of the advice Oz offers is sensible, and is rooted solidly in scientific literature. That is why the rest of what he does is so hard to understand. Oz is an experienced surgeon, yet almost daily he employs words that serious scientists shun, like “startling,” “breakthrough,” “radical,” “revolutionary,” and “miracle....

As the weather report would show, there are plenty of days when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow—meaning power generated from solar panels and wind turbines could stall, given all the challenges with long-term energy storage from renewables. As a result, many countries have stuck with fossil fuels, which they know are reliable. After all, it doesn’t have to be a nice day to burn coal or pump natural gas....

Remember those severed feet in Vancouver? Two of them have been matched up.A new study suggests the ancestor of the virus that causes AIDS evolved millions of years earlier than believed, opening the door to further understanding of how broadly HIV-like viruses are currently distributed, and how animals carry them without getting sick.People in religious countries are more likely to see nanotechnology as immoral, according to a new report. I’m dying to know how this was assessed for the report....

It’s never too late to improve it. We don’t mean calligraphy level, which would make your doctor’s office check-in forms look like royal decrees from the 1500s. We mean legible and consistent, regardless of whether you use print or cursive. Just like most aspects of life, handwriting can get better with practice. Repetition will help you gradually change your handwriting, and you’ll eventually reach a point where the letters flow naturally and beautifully from pen to paper....

This is far from the only option available to you, and there are plenty of gentler alternatives to ease you out of your slumber—from music and sounds of nature to podcasts, and even the morning news. Here we’ll cover the options available in your phone’s built-in clock app, but if you need more sounds to choose from, there are plenty of third-party alarm apps to pick from as well....

The robot’s small body looks a bit like a stylized version of the Pixar lamp, a pedestal with a bendy column and an oblong face. In the middle of the face sits a single unblinking eye, so that Talking Ally can maintain eye contact with its person. A second, tucked-away camera tracks the human’s face. Servomotors and springs give the robot a surprising range of movement. Depending on where the human looked, Talking Ally could engage them in conversation about their focus....

And while the JBL Reflect Flow Pro true wireless active sports earbuds aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution to every woe plaguing TWS ‘buds, they come a lot closer to being an ideal design to wear during your next workout. Features including active noise cancellation, ambient noise mode, super-firm ear wings, and an IP68 waterproof rating deliver your favorite tracks during intense workouts—no major slippage while running or sweat damage included. The JBL Reflect Flow Pro’s design Despite their designation as a sport earbud, the JBL Reflect Flow Pro doesn’t have any awkward apparatuses that scream gym to the point you wouldn’t want to be seen wearing them anywhere else....

“I’ve always found them kind of unnerving, to be honest,” he adds. The episode in question debuts on Disney Plus today, part of a series that has the actor exploring topics like fireworks, magic, and dogs. The motorcycle episode sees Goldblum skimming lightheartedly across the surface of the subject. He touches on the diversity of the riding community, speaking to Gurinder Singh Basra, the president of Sikh Riders of America....

How did you get into robotics? The first time I really became aware of robots was when I saw Star Wars. I was 10 years old, and I was in the theater. Seeing R2-D2 and C-3PO—that was really the moment. I just fell in love with them. It seems like we should have seen a companion robot by now. Until recently, roboticists haven’t been focused on building robots for nontechnical people....

On a given day, only a few thousand people live in Antarctica. Almost all of them are researchers, studying everything from glaciology to gravitational waves. And, now, five lucky volunteers will join them. The purpose of this all-expenses-paid expedition? To do science, of course. Airbnb is partnering with Ocean Conservancy to send people on a month-long climate research expedition. During this “Antarctic Sabbatical,” volunteers will collect and analyze snow cores, samples of snow drilled out of the surface of the ice....

With a hot-swappable 65-percent design, the fully customizable Q2 is a slightly trimmed-down version of its predecessor, the Keychron Q1. The Q2 is highly versatile and easy to use, so even new enthusiasts can quickly learn how to tweak it for whatever use they want to give it. Mechanical keyboards and kits, particularly those made for enthusiasts, tend to be more meticulously made than those coming from major manufacturers. At $170, or $150 for a barebone kit without switches and keycaps, the Q2 is built (and priced) to be appreciated....

In 2008, Mexican activist Mariano Abarca was assaulted by employees of a Canadian mining company, Blackfire Exploration, at his home in Chicomuselo, a municipality in the state of Chiapas near Mexico’s border with Guatemala. The attack was presumably retribution for Abarca’s vocal opposition to the planned expansion of Blackfire’s nearby barite mine. In July 2009, after he had received multiple death threats, Abarca joined a delegation to the Canadian embassy in Mexico City, where he gave a speech describing how Blackfire used its workers as thugs....

It’s kind of interesting because it includes user info like gender, and where and when votes were concentrated. Check it out.