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By Mark Pierce
Life Sciences Can’t Afford Fragmented Data...
Halloween Science: Your Ancestors May Have...
Quantum Leap Or Quantum Mirage? What Happens...
RuBisCo Stars, Frank Drake and the "Riddle of Life"
December 4, 2009.
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Do you know, my original title for this was "The Early Bird Gets the PR". I... Read >
In 2001 there was a massive outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in the... Read >
A doctor who told you to smoke cigarettes "in moderation" would likely lose... Read >
High blood pressure is an important risk factor for developing cardiovascular... Read >
Sports used to bridge a lot of cultural gaps. You could walk into any bar and... Read >
The Enceladus Idea In The Search For Life Out There
A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. A new study strengthens the case for Enceladus being a habitable world.The data for those new research findings comes from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn ...
TSCA: Here Is What You Need To Know About EPA Taking A New Look At Formaldehyde
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has signaled it will once again examine formaldehyde under the Toxic Substances Control Act.It is not a surprise. Formaldehyde is one of the most exhaustively used, and therefore studied and regulated, chemicals. Scientists lament that it keeps being a political ...
USERN: 10 Years Of Non-Profit Action Supporting Science Education And Research
The 10th congress of the USERN organization was held on November 8-10 in Campinas, Brazil. Some time has gone by, so it is due time for me to report on the event. I could not attend in person for a cause of force majeure, but I was connected via zoom, and I also delivered two recorded speeches ...
Kennedy Effect: Now NIEHS Scaremongers Any 'Detectable' PFAS Levels
A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences paper(1) is sounding the alarm about detectable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood samples of Delaware residents.It sounds scary, but scientifically there are two things to keep in mind:1. We can detect anything in anything ...
The Hemp Industry Has A Placebo For Your PFAS Chemophobia
Environmental activists have claimed for decades that PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are "forever" chemicals that have been causing disease. Once former Natural Resources Defense Council environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined the Republican team, their belief in homeopathic ...
A 900-Meter Clue Beneath The Granite: China’s Jinlin Crater Reshapes Our Understanding Of Holocene Impacts
For decades, scientists have assumed that the Holocene—the relatively quiet geological epoch spanning the last ~11,700 years—was marked by only a handful of small meteorite impacts, most of them modest in size. But a newly confirmed structure in southern China is now challenging that narrative ...
Europe Rations Air Conditioning But The US Has Made A Map To Help People Optimize It
America uses less energy per capita than we did in World War II, and even World War I. Thanks to natural gas, we provide energy in most states at an affordable cost.(1) With the help of a new data set that shows where air conditioning is used, it will be even easier to know where things can be ...
Humans Made California Wildfires More Dangerous, Though Not With Emissions
A new call to action by ecologists uses a numerical model to note that wildfires in places like California have been made worse by humans. That doesn't mean it is human emissions. For decades, California government has banned logging. They let people move to risky fire areas and then not pay ...
Life On Arsenic? Why Some Science Just Won’t Die - And Why It Matters For Real Discovery
Remember when a small bacterium from California’s Mono Lake was supposed to rewrite the very definition of life? Headlines screamed: NASA finds “alien” life on Earth! The organism reportedly swapped out precious phosphorus - one of life’s six essential building blocks - for arsenic, the ...
Mitochondria Replacement May Help Old Cells Feel Young Again
People who 'age' better don't share much in common at all about lifestyles like diet. Surveys are too unreliable and too many centenarians were only such because of inaccurate records or even fraud for valid epidemiology.But what they do share in common is superior energy production in cells. Their ...
A Way To Kill Salmonella In Chickens Both MAHA And The Organic Side Can Agree On
The pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) that caused chicken and egg prices to skyrocket after millions of birds died was helped by the raw milk vector. Pasteurization, which has saved a billion lives, kills the virus. The same people who buy organic food and don't want chickens that have ever ...
The Cranberry Scare Of 2025 Is Not New, It's Been A Thanksgiving Tradition Since 1959
People are concerned about cranberries again this November, but it isn't a new phenomenon.Cranberries were actually the first modern chemophobia scare, when anti-science activists got government to first do what they have since done to weedkillers, trans fats, ultraprocessed foods, BPA, you name ...
Sending Health Care To Homes Is Better And Cheaper Than Hospital Stays
Due to the rising costs and inability of doctors to own hospitals since the Affordable Care Act (ACA), costs have ballooned. The ACA was passed because 750,000 people had pre-existing conditions that made private insurance unavailable, yet their incomes were too high for government assistance. ...
$0.50 Pantoprazole For Stomach Bleeding In ICU Patients Could Save Families Thousands Of Dollars
The inexpensive medication pantoprazole prevents potentially serious stomach bleeding in critically ill patients and can save consumers and the government thousands of dollars. The results of a new study show that when prescribed in hospital for mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive ...
The Organic Foods You Need To Avoid This Thanksgiving To Stay Cancer-Free
Though vegetable oil is all the rage this year, we need to remember that food scaremongering is designed to pile onto previous hysteria, not replace it. The Endocrine Disruptor/PM2.5/5G conspiracy community, dominated by the left for decades, finally got one of their into a position that was important ...
Lancet Is Doing For MAHA On Food What They Did For Wakefield On Vaccines
The Lancet, which championed both the 'vaccines cause autism' and the 'Frankenfood' movement, is now promoting the same bad epidemiology in their claims about ultra-processed food.Scientists may be concerned that a prominent journal is giving credence to scaremongering but we are talking about ...
Anxiety For Christmas: How To Cope
Christmas can be hard. For some people, it increases loneliness, grief, hopelessness and family tension, and the festive season has a way of turning ordinary concerns into urgent ones. Not because something terrible is guaranteed to happen, but because more is often at stake: money, time, family ...
Does Stress Make Holidate Sex More Likely?
Desire to have a short-term companion for the holidays - a "holidate" - is common enough that it gets its own portmanteau but the reasons may not always be positive. A survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association found that 43 percent of U.S. adults report stress levels during ...
To Boomers, An AI Relationship Is Not Cheating
A recent survey by found that over 28 percent of adults claim they have an intimate, even romantic relationship, with an LLM (Large Language Model), colloquially deemed Artificial Intelligence - "AI".(1)It seems plausible because 41 percent of people believe in psychics and ghosts.What may be surprising ...
The Scorched Cherry Twig And Other Christmas Miracles Get A Science Look
Bleeding hosts and stigmatizations are the best-known medieval miracles but less known ones, like a scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting, a diseased swamp becoming fertile land, and healing the broken leg of an ox, are getting a new look. The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine ...
On January 5th, Don't Get Divorced Because Of Hallmark Movies
The Monday after New Year's is colloquially called Divorce Day, but it's more than marriages ending. Lots of people in longer relationships, and certainly seasonal holidates, just want to get through the holidays before pulling the plug. That Monday this year is January 5th.Alone may be better ...
'The Operating Reality Has Changed' - Without Mandates, The Electric Car Market Is Collapsing
Ford is the latest company to take a massive write-off on current electric car production- nearly $20 billion. Because making them would be even more costly.Electric cars got a huge boost when the federal government said car companies needed to switch. Then, as now, companies pivot with political ...
Berkeley STEM Teacher Peyrin Kao Criticized Israel - Was He Wrong To Get Suspended?
With criticism due to an overspending frenzy funded by student loan debt still in full swing, some universities want to get back to education and not be social justice platforms for its employees to groom children to their beliefs.Peyrin Kao, a University of California Berkeley student and now ...
Truth Or Consequences
From an early age, my life’s goal was to get at “the truth.” There were only two obvious career paths: Science, or investigative journalism. I went the first route, becoming an academic researcher. Proud of the path I chose, and always admiring the other one.Until now, when both academe and ...
Air India Flight 171 - Flawed EE Bay Water Ingress TheoryRichard Godfrey, in many videos on the... more »
As a member of the public, how can you determine whether Tylenol, also known as acetaminophen,... more »
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same... more »
This came up on 2nd November 2024 (give or take a day), a broadcaster objecting to a carbon capture... more »
Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing... more »
