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An analysis of 300 million United Kingdom Ministry of Transport test records... Read >

The Zagros Mountains are nestled in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey... Read >

Science is always looking for new ways to protect plants and the environment... Read >

Doctors who would never tell a patient to smoke cigarettes in moderation, they... Read >

With Burns Night this weekend, Scotland will celebrate its heritage.... Read >

So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually... Read >
Hey AI, Design A Calorimeter For Me
As artificial intelligence tools continue to evolve and improve their performance on more and more general tasks, scientists struggle to make the best use of them. The problem is not incompetence - in fact, at least in my field of study (high-energy physics) most of us have grown rather well ...
Chemical Looping Plastic And CO2: Science Even Environmental Groups Can't Hate
The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 35 million tons of plastics are generated just in America, and 12.% of that becomes is garbage like plastic containers and bags and even appliances.Sorry folks, politicians in states like California who insist it's being recycled are lying ...
The Multi-Muon Analysis - A Recollection
As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated analysis performed by a group of physicists within ...
USDA Awards Grant To Study Acidic Coatings To Protect Organic Food From Bacteria
Have you purchased organic food and wondered what the chemical is that you need to wash off? Those are alkaline wax-based coatings, designed to preserve food so it looks nice longer. Just like conventional growers use. But chemical wax coatings made including olive bud oil don't prevent fungi and ...
Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their apex status to other areas.The paper in the pay-to-publish journal Environmental Research Letters ...
Epidemiologists Can Link Weedkillers To Your Prostate Cancer Even If You Were Never Exposed
A recent epidemiology paper links common weedkillers to prostate cancer and further claims four of them cause death. Obviously they can't show that, there is no plausible biological mechanism, no increase in prostate cancers, and no evidence any of the people who got prostate cancer had contact ...
Environmentalists Should Embrace 'eDNA' Technology
Once upon a time, environmentalists embraced biotechnology as key way to reduce pesticide use. Rachel Carson, author of "Silent Spring", was a fan of genetic engineering. That was before we all learned that environmental groups are only 'for' something if it means they can raise money being against ...
Knee Point Prediction And Battery Capacity Degradation
Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that second one except current batteries are legacy technology that are held back by subsidies and mandates ...
Yellowstone Wolves: Good For Urban Environmentalists, Bad For Everyone Else
A new analysis claims that crown volume of stream-side shrubs is a key metric for evaluating trophic cascade strength and they attribute the 1,500% increase in a small number of sites to increased numbers of wolves.The data they used were collected from 20 streams during the years 2001 to ...
In Finland, Farmers Are Now Forced To Yell At Geese To Try And Keep Crops From Being Ruined
While talking to farmers in Illinois on September 25th, 1956 who were concerned about increased government encroachment and regulations brought on by the descendants of eugenicists who had founded "environmental" groups like Sierra Club to promote their beliefs(1), President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans
A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working memory task, while 68% of recent users also ...
The Protein Signature Of Long Covid In Children Revealed In Lab Tests
"Long Covid", the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that erupted in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread worldwide, causing millions of deaths, is difficult to pin down.Pediatricians report it affects on average 0.5% of children who got the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ...
Hims Telehealth Company Under Fire For Super Bowl Ad
Hims Inc., rebranded as Hims & Hers Health, Inc. after they went public in 2020, began as a telehealth company for erectile dysfunction and hair loss products.No real issue there, the products are well-established and a phone call or website consultation is more convenient and far faster ...
Birth Control Pill: Less Ovulation Linked To Less Ovarian Cancer
A new Artificial Intelligence analysis of data of ovarian cancer patients links birth control pills to a 26% reduced risk for those had ever used it, and 43% for those who had used the it after the age of 45.That does not mean you should take it as a way to prevent cancer, it is an endocrine ...
Corporate Media - 'Young People Are Dying' But People Are Actually Healthier Than Ever
Are young people dying off en masse or are predatorts at environmental groups who prey on public gullibility rending their holistic shaman-blessed hemp garments because a wave of improving public health has spread across America?'People are dying' is just a headline to grab eyeballs. More accurate ...
Cardiac Medication Digoxin Off Label Reduces Risk Of Breast Cancer Metastases
While off-label uses of medication may be controversial in political media, in science and health they lead to important gains. A new example is the cardiac disease drug digoxin used at a low and safe dosage for one week for nine patients with metastatic breast cancer.The number of cancer cells ...
3 Pro-Science Action Items For EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Yesterday, the Senate confirmed former Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Though the Trump administration has promised reform, there will be big challenges in that. Though high-profile jobs are appointees, the nuts-and-bolts work of governance is done by career ...
Gym Paradox: People Want To Get Healthier But Until They're Healthier Don't Feel Comfortable
Gym Bro, Curl Gurl, Gym Rat if you choose not to identify as any gender - everyone knows what it means, and it can be pretty intimidating if you walk into a fitness center as a new member. Imagine feeling like you have to get in shape before you can join a gym to get in shape.Fitness executives ...
Two Fewer Almonds: That's All You Need To Prevent Weight Gain
When people see labels or menus listing the calories in their food, it doesn't change their consumption in any way beyond what experts call "statistical wobble." About two fewer almonds worth of calories per meal. But two almonds over time can add up to a lot.That's the conclusion in the data of ...
In British Iron Age Culture, Margaret Thatcher Was The Norm
In British Iron Age society, land was inherited through the female line and husbands moved to live with the wife’s community. Strong women like Margaret Thatcher resulted.That was inferred due to DNA sequenced from members of a single community, over 50 ancient genomes from a set of burial grounds ...
Lessons, Advice, And Reflections On Editing A Scholarly Book
In 2023, I bit the bullet by signing a
book contract with Springer to work on a difficult compilation of scientific
misconduct and problematic science publishing practice. It was planned as an
edited book that required expert contributors of the field to write chapters on
the various topics ...
Overcoming Misinformation And Reconnecting With Science Deniers
Scientific information has never been more widely accessible than it is today. While this increased availability fosters awareness and collaboration, it has also contributed to a concerning surge in misinformation and disinformation, especially in the United States.Recent Pew Research data ...
Are Infectious Diseases A Social Justice Issue? A History Of The World In Six Plagues Has Answers
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns, there has been ample time to look at what went wrong, and perhaps how we didn't learn much from history.There are many examples and while politicians ignored it, storytellers have not. In "The Division" game, for example, eco-terrorists ...
Ants Are Like Philadelphia Eagles Fans: They Hold Grudges Forever
I'm a Steelers guy now but I was a late fan. Where I was young in Pennsylvania, three teams in New York and two in Pennsylvania were the same distance to drive - and we did not drive to any of them. So I remained a Cowboys fan.(1) My brother, though, was an Eagles fan of early on. And he's ...
Back in December 2024, astronomers caught wind of something unusual—a small, fast-moving rock... 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 »
March is here, and with it begins a season of intense travel for me - something which for some... more »
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