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Nvidia shares decline 3.5%, hit 3-week low as rotation into cyclicals continueDecember 16, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread by Anna Ettlin, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Switzerland has set itself a goal that is as ambitious as it is necessary: net zero by 2050. One of the most important raw materials on the road to a climate-neutral future is wood. This renewable natural resource binds CO 2 from the atmosphere as it grows. Both as a material and as an energy source, wood and its numerous components offer alternatives to fossil fuels and materials. It is therefore hardly surprising that many sectors of industry plan to rely more on wood in future, whether in construction, in textile manufacturing or even in sectors such as electronics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Little is known, however, about how much wood is available for all these desired applications and in what form. In order to shed some light on the matter, researchers from Empa and WSL have now comprehensively analyzed all documented material flows of wood in Switzerland. Their study, which was published in the journal Industrial Ecology , was carried out as part of SCENE, a joint initiative of the ETH Domain. Extensive data for an accurate assessment For their analysis, the researchers used data for the year 2020 from 21 different sources—a methodological challenge, as the figures in the various sources did not always match. Wood is a diverse raw material that can take many forms on its way from harvest to use, often differing in volume and moisture content : raw timber, sawn wood, wood chips, wood pulp for the paper industry and much more. Harmonizing the different material flows was therefore a Herculean task. But the effort was worth it. "Comparable studies from abroad rely heavily on modeling. They have data on how much wood is harvested in the forest, and they use this to calculate the subsequent material flows," explains Nadia Malinverno from Empa's Technology and Society laboratory, the lead author of the study. The Empa team, on the other hand, used "real" data almost throughout, from timber harvesting and import/export to processing, recycling and disposal. This results in a much more accurate picture—albeit not a perfect one, emphasizes Malinverno. "We have to thank our colleagues at WSL and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) for the good data that is available in Switzerland," adds co-author and Empa researcher Claudia Som. Wood should stay wood for as long as possible Switzerland still has considerable potential when it comes to sustainable use of wood. For example, the recycling rate for wood is just under 8%, compared to around 70% for paper. "Of the five to seven million cubic meters of wood that we harvest in Switzerland every year, around 40% is used directly for energy—in other words, it is burned," says Malinverno. The researchers agree that this is far from ideal. "For wood to fulfill its function as a long-term CO 2 sink, it should remain in the technosphere as a material for as long as possible," explains Som. The vision of the researchers and of the SCENE initiative is a so-called cascading use of wood. In this approach, a harvested tree would first be processed into the largest possible high-quality product—such as beams and boards for construction. This wood should then be (re-)used in this function for as long as possible. Only when reuse is no longer feasible would the wood be broken down into the next material stage, for example, as smaller boards, wood chips or wood-based materials. It should only go into the furnace when it can no longer be used as a material. This is just one possible example of a wood cascade. As part of SCENE, the researchers want to investigate in more detail which uses of wood make the most sense, both from an ecological and economic perspective. One of their goals is to take a closer look at selected material flows: In what form is wood present in a particular flow? Where exactly is it produced? How is it treated? And how else could it be used? Nadia Malinverno, Claudia Som and their fellow researchers will be looking into these questions in the coming years. More information: Nadia Malinverno et al, Resolving complexity: Material flow analysis of a national wood flow system integrating the versatility of wood, Journal of Industrial Ecology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13560 Journal information: Journal of Industrial Ecology Provided by Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

NoneCYPRESS LAKE, Fla. (AP) — Kam Craft and Peter Suder both had 18 points in Miami (OH)'s 70-58 victory against Siena on Monday. Craft added five rebounds for the RedHawks (3-2). Suder shot 7 of 9 from the floor, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and 3 for 3 from the line. Eian Elmer shot 4 for 8 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points. The Saints (3-3) were led by Major Freeman, who recorded 15 points. Brendan Coyle added 12 points for Siena. Justice Shoats had 12 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Stock market today: Wall Street hits records despite tariff talkThe latest rejig in MSCI indexes has seen the turnover at HDFC Bank counter hitting a record $4.6 billion on Monday (November 25). Prior to this, such a massive turnover was recorded on August 30 of this year, which stood at $4.4 billion, according to data compiled from Bloomberg. NSE On Monday, as many as 21.4 crore shares of HDFC Bank changed hands on the NSE, taking the combined volumes on both bourses to 21.5 crore. That is about 11 times higher than the bank's three-month average volume of two crore shares. The heightened trading activity also took the bank's stock to a record high of ₹1,803.55 on the NSE. However, the shares pared some of their gains to end the day at ₹1,785.60, up 2.3% from the previous close. Also Read: What triggered a sharp surge in Zomato shares after 125% rally this year? Monday’s buying also marks the second and final tranche of HDFC Bank's inclusion in MSCI indices this year, following the first adjustment in August 2024, when the Foreign Inclusion Factor (FIF) for the stock was partially raised from 0.37 to 0.56. Analysts are of the view that the November round of rejig would attract close to $2.5 billion in inflows to India’s equity market with HDFC Bank garnering the most. According to Nuvama Institutional Equities, HDFC Bank is likely to record an inflow of $1.8 billion in the second tranche of investments. The changes to MSCI Indices also witnessed foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) turning into net buyers of Indian equities. According to provisional data on exchanges, overseas investors bought shares worth $1.2 billion on Monday, whereas domestic institutional investors net sold $822 million worth of stocks. Also Read: Analysts have started to warm up to Reliance Industries again; Check their latest targets The latest tweaks in stocks were a part of the quarterly change in MSCI Indexes (Morgan Stanley Capital International), which was announced earlier this year. Other stocks that have been included in the index are BSE, Voltas, Alkem Laboratories, Kalyan Jewellers and Oberoi Realty. While BSE recorded a turnover of ₹5820 crore on Monday, the daily turnover on the NSE for Voltas and Kalyan Jewellers stood at ₹4580 crore and ₹3717 crore, respectively. Currently, India's weightage on the MSCI Global Standard index is pegged at 19.3%, with 151 stocks, while China has a weight of 27%. Further, the latest inclusion of five stocks with zero exclusions will take the total tally to 156 stocks for India in the MSCI Standard/EM Index. Also Read: Four stocks contributing to nearly 50% of Nifty gains — Here are the top 10 contributors Additionally, there will be a net inclusion of 13 stocks in the Smallcap Index, bringing the country’s total stock count in the small-cap index to 525.

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In 2003, Hubble spotted a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the Universe. This implied that some planet formation happened when our Universe was very young. And those type of planets had time to form and grow big inside their young discs, to grow even bigger than Jupiter. Yet, back then, stars possessed only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of planets. So, how could such a planet form? This was puzzling. To answer this question, researchers used Webb to study stars in a nearby galaxy that, much like the early Universe, lacks large amounts of heavy elements. They found that some stars there have planet-forming discs, and those discs are even longer-lived than those seen around young stars in our Milky Way galaxy. “With Webb, we have a strong confirmation of what we saw with Hubble, and we must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young Universe,” said study leader Guido De Marchi of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. In the early Universe, stars formed from mostly hydrogen and helium, and very few heavier elements such as carbon and iron, which came through the first generation of supernova explosions. “Current theoretical models predict that with so few heavier elements, the discs around stars have a short lifetime, so short in fact that planets cannot grow big,” said the Webb study’s co-investigator Elena Sabbi, chief scientist for Gemini Observatory at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab in Tucson, Arizona, USA. “But Hubble did see one of those planets, so what if the models were not correct and discs could live longer?” To test this idea, scientists trained Webb on the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbours. In particular, they examined the massive, star-forming cluster NGC 346, which is also poor of heavier elements. The cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant Universe. Hubble observations of NGC 346 from the mid 2000s revealed many stars about 20 to 30 million years old that seemed to still have planet-forming discs around them. This went against the conventional belief that such discs would dissipate after 2 or 3 million years. “The Hubble findings were controversial, going against not only empirical evidence in our galaxy but also against the current models,” said Guido. “This was intriguing, but without a way to obtain spectra of those stars, we could not really establish whether we were witnessing the stars’ growth and the presence of discs, or just some spurious effect.” Now, thanks to Webb’s sensitivity and resolution, scientists have the first-ever spectra of forming, Sun-like stars and their immediate environments in a nearby galaxy. “We see that these stars are indeed surrounded by discs and are still in the process of gobbling material, even at the relatively old age of 20 or 30 million years,” said Guido. “This also implies that planets have more time to form and grow around these stars than in nearby star-forming regions in our own galaxy.” This finding refutes previous theoretical predictions that the star would very quickly blow away the disc when there are very few heavier elements in the gas. In that case, the disc’s life would be very short, even less than a million years. But if a disc doesn’t stay around the star long enough for the dust grains to stick together and pebbles to form and become the core of a planet, how can planets form? The researchers explained that there could be two distinct mechanisms, or even a combination, for planet-forming discs to persist in environments scarce in heavier elements. First, to be able to blow away the disc, the star’s light applies pressure to the gas in the disc. This process is more efficient when the gas contains elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. The massive star cluster NGC 346 only has about ten percent of the heavier elements that are present in the chemical composition of our Sun. So, perhaps it simply takes longer for a star in this cluster to disperse its disc. The second possibility is that a Sun-like star must form from a larger cloud of gas when there are few heavier elements. A bigger gas cloud will produce a bigger disc. When there is more mass in the disc, it would take longer to blow the disc away. “With more matter around the stars, the accretion lasts for a longer time,” said Elena. “The discs may take ten times longer to disappear. This has implications for how you form a planet, and the type of planetary systems that you can have in these different environments. This is so exciting.” The science team’s paper appears in the 16 December 2024 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI, which was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona. Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). astrobiologyOxford: Owner of Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Johnny Was Reports Third Quarter ResultsNeuroscience Study Aboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Reveals Cognitive Benefits of Slow Travel at Sea

CYPRESS LAKE, Fla. (AP) — Kam Craft and Peter Suder both had 18 points in Miami (OH)'s 70-58 victory against Siena on Monday. Craft added five rebounds for the RedHawks (3-2). Suder shot 7 of 9 from the floor, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and 3 for 3 from the line. Eian Elmer shot 4 for 8 (2 for 4 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 15 points. The Saints (3-3) were led by Major Freeman, who recorded 15 points. Brendan Coyle added 12 points for Siena. Justice Shoats had 12 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

DETROIT (AP) — Starting in September of 2027, all new passenger vehicles in the U.S. will have to sound a warning if rear-seat passengers don't buckle up. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday that it finalized the rule, which also requires enhanced warnings when front seat belts aren't fastened. The agency estimates that the new rule will save 50 lives per year and prevent 500 injuries when fully in effect, according to a statement. The new rule will apply to passenger cars, trucks, buses except for school buses, and multipurpose vehicles weighing up to 10,000 pounds. Before the rule, seat belt warnings were required only for the driver's seat. Under the new rule, outboard front-seat passengers also must get a warning if they don't fasten their belts. Front-center seats will not get a warning because NHTSA found that it wouldn't be cost effective. The agency said most vehicles already have warnings for the outboard passenger seats. The rule also lengthens the duration of audio and visual warnings for the driver's seat. The front-seat rules are effective starting Sept. 1 of 2026. Rear passengers consistently use seat belts at a lower rate than front passengers, the agency says. In 2022, front belt use was just under 92%, while rear use dropped to about 82%. About half of automobile passengers who died in crashes two years ago weren’t wearing belts, according to NHTSA data. The seat belt rule is the second significant regulation to come from NHTSA in the past two months. In November the agency bolstered its five-star auto safety ratings to include driver assistance technologies and pedestrian protection. Safety advocates want the Department of Transportation, which includes NHTSA, to finish several more rules before the end of the Biden administration, because President-elect Donald Trump has said he’s against new government regulations. Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, urged the department to approve automatic emergency braking for heavy trucks and technology to prevent impaired driving.HMI Glass, MITER Brands, and West Shore Home join the fight against sudden cardiac arrest MECHANICSBURG, Pa. , Dec. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Huddle For Hearts , a sudden cardiac arrest prevention program started by the Peyton Walker Foundation , is expanding its reach across the country with the help of its new partners. HMI Glass , MITER Brands , and West Shore Home have collectively pledged more than $27,000 to the initiative to ensure youth sports organizers have the tools and training needed in case a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) occurs. Huddle For Hearts collaborates with student athletes across the country to donate AEDs and CPR training to underserved youth sports organizations. Penn State University athletes across multiple sports announced today that they are joining Huddle For Hearts: Cooper Cousins (football), Luke Reynolds (football), Kachi Nzeh (men's basketball), Allie Campbell (women's basketball), Izzy Starck (volleyball), and Zack Ryder (wrestling). "We are so grateful for our partners who have 'joined the Huddle' in helping us to protect hearts and save lives, especially in the communities where these resources are most needed," said Julie Walker , president of The Peyton Walker Foundation and Huddle For Hearts. "We look forward to collaborating with this group of Penn State athletes to help raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest, which will have a tremendous impact on our mission." Each athlete will receive an AED to donate to the organization of their choice and can host a fundraiser to purchase additional AEDs and provide CPR training in their communities. Supporting the program was a natural fit for West Shore Home and MITER Brands, which have already worked with the Foundation in their home state of Pennsylvania . "We are proud to continue our support of the Peyton Walker Foundation and the work they do every day to save lives," said B.J. Werzyn, President and CEO of West Shore Home. "Last year, West Shore Home was able to donate five AEDs through the Huddle For Hearts program and we are thrilled to make an even bigger impact in the coming year. "We're grateful for the opportunity to partner with Huddle For Hearts," said Gwen Mallon , MITER Foundation Specialist. "Children's wellbeing is one of the pillars of the MITER Foundation. We want to help ensure that children around the country can experience the joys of sports participation in a safe environment." HMI Glass, based in Kentucky , is helping to launch the Huddle For Hearts program in Louisville . "HMI Glass is excited to partner with West Shore Home and MITER Brands in supporting Huddle For Hearts," said Rob Zawtocki , CEO of HMI Glass. "We are honored to participate in this important cause to provide lifesaving tools for student athletes." If you are interested in becoming a Huddle For Hearts athlete to help donate AED and CPR training in your community, fill out a submission form with the Peyton Walker Foundation. About West Shore Home West Shore Home, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pa. , is a leading technology-enabled home remodeling services provider with an expanding national footprint. Founded in 2006, West Shore Home's national brand promise is Bringing Happiness to Every Home by delivering a fast, easy, and convenient home remodeling experience. From the first phone call to the final installation, customers have a streamlined experience and associate the West Shore Home brand with consistent high quality, transparency, and trust. For additional information visit westshorehome.com . About MITER Brands Founded in 1947, MITER Brands is a residential window and door manufacturer that produces a portfolio of window and door brands for the new construction and replacement segments with an owner-operated, family-first approach. With more than 20 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States , MITER Brands is a nationwide supplier of precision-built and energy-efficient products. Through optimized manufacturing, valued relationships, and dedicated team members coast to coast, MITER Brands instills confidence and drives quality customer experiences. About Peyton Walker Foundation Peyton Walker was a 19-year-old Mechanicsburg native, 2012 Trinity High School graduate, and a sophomore at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who was pursuing a career as a Physician Assistant when she suffered a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) that took her young and vibrant life on November 2, 2013 . Afterwards, her family started researching Sudden Cardiac Arrest and established THE PEYTON WALKER FOUNDATION in honor of Peyton's memory and her dreams of working in the medical profession to help and care for others. The Foundation's mission is to increase awareness and survival rates of Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Events, screenings and important updates can be found at PeytonWalker.org . To date, they are proud to have donated 800 Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), screened over 5,500 students and provided CPR & AED training to hundreds of thousands of community members. The Foundation also has provided over $115,000 in educational scholarships for students pursuing degrees in healthcare. About HMI Glass HMI Glass, headquartered in Louisville, KY was founded in 1946. HMI specializes in providing high-quality glass shower enclosures and hardware to glaziers, designers, and builders supporting new home construction and remodeling segments across the country. Our products are manufactured at our Louisville, KY , Boston, MA and Arlington, TX facilities by our more than 500 dedicated Team Members. SOURCE West Shore HomeNone