A new study in the journal Science says that human-driven climate change is pushing the American West into a megadrought, and into its driest period in more than 400 years. Funding for the Mountain West News Bureau is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Read More: kunc.org
Because vaccine-derived polio outbreaks are becoming more probable over time, a new oral vaccine that doesn’t mutate easily is needed, the researchers say. The researchers found that the debris interacted with the atmosphere to form a dense dust cloud that raced over Earth at several kilometres per second. Read More: nature.com
Researchers had three volunteers leave prints on glass slides over the course of a week, and the scientists were later able to determine which day the prints were left, reports New Atlas. The bottom line: If a print is less than a week old, police might soon be able to determine its age within 24 hours. Read More: newser.com
Neilsen continues to be by far the largest US market research company, outstripping its nearest competitor in US research revenues by a more than 2:1 margin, according to the 2019 GreenBook Market Leaders Report. About the Data: Companies are ranked by research revenue in the US with the exception of Ispsos and The NPD Group some or all figures are not made available by the companies so instead are based upon research and estimation by the GreenBook report author. Read More: www.marketingcharts.com
In September, pegged future sea level rise at 1 to 2 feet by 2100, relative to levels in 1986-2005, under a lower emissions scenario. Trump greatly underestimates the scale of the problem, and his dismissal of the dangers of sea level rise is not based in science. Read More: www.factcheck.org
As a result, search advertising’s share of internet advertising spend appears to be leveling off, per the Global Ad Trends report from WARC. Search is expected to account for just less than half of internet advertising spend this year, but this represents the lowest share in 10 years. Although mobile’s share of ad spend and its share of search traffic in those countries are both growing, mobile’s allotted ad spend is increasing a quicker rate. Read More: www.marketingcharts.com
New research reveals children may understand the concept of counting much younger than previously thought. While the research didn’t reveal that the babies knew the exact number of toys, they did expect more items to come out of the box after the researchers removed one. Read More: redtri.com
GOOGLE DOMINATES US SEARCH, BUT AMAZON IS CLOSING THE GAP: According to our latest US ad spending forecast, Google’s share of search ad revenues will drop, while that of Amazon will grow over the next two years. In 2019, Amazon’s search business will grow nearly 30% over last year, boosting net search revenues to $7.09 billion. Read More: www.emarketer.com
In examining more than 140 million browser-based searches across millions of US mobile and desktop devices, the analysis revealed that 50.3% share of all Google searches were zero-click searches in June, while 45.3% of the searches were organic clicks. While zero-click searches did not hold its slight majority share of Google searches for the entire quarter, they did account for 49.8% of all searches in Q2 2019, up from 49.0% in Q1 2019. Read More: www.marketingcharts.com
On Wednesday, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chicago detailed the tracking that happens behind the scenes in over 2,000 channels on Roku and Amazon Fire TV streaming devices. They found that 89 percent of Amazon Fire TV channels and 69 percent of Roku channels contained easily spottable trackers that collected information about a viewing habits and preferences, along with unique identifiers like device serial numbers and IDs, Wi-Fi network names, and the Wi-Fi identifiers known as MAC addresses. Read More: www.wired.com