A Million-Year-Old Mammoth May Hold The Key...
By Irena Šoljić
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Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
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A W, A Z, And A Top Quark
The world of elementary particles has something in common with our own: there are large inequalities in the properties of particles, as in the properties of human beings. The heaviest particle, the top quark, with its estimated mass of 172 GeV is five orders of magnitude heavier than the most common ...
Universe Breakers Shatter Cosmological Theories About Galaxy Formation
Astronomers at the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered six massive “Universe breaker” galaxies that existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang. These galaxies, larger than any galaxies that we have known, grew at a much faster rate than we thought possible, disrupting ...
Neuromorphic Computing For Physics Applications
The recent developments in artificial intelligence, most notably the demonstration of the weird power of GPT4 and other large language models, have brought the scientific community to ponder on some very foundational questions - What is conscience? What is intelligence? Can machines really think ...
Saturn’s Rings: Enjoy Them While You Can
Saturn’s rings are one of the jewels of the solar system, but it seems that their time is short and their existence fleeting.A new study suggests the rings are between 400 million and 100 million years old – a fraction of the age of the solar system. This means we are just lucky to be living ...
Climate Justice: Economists Claim The World Owes Itself $298 Trillion
A new op-ed in Nature argues that countries which have air conditioning owe the world up to $298 trillion. And counting.That figure is virtual money. Like virtual water, or virtual pregnancy, it isn't a real thing, it is a computer model by activist economists who love to use terms like "reparations" ...
National Academies Of Sciences: The US Needs Nuclear. Will Democrats Listen?
Prior to natural gas hydraulic fracturing making played out gas wells viable again, America was in a real climate emissions pickle. In 1994, Democrats finally won their war of extinction on nuclear energy, they cheered as President Bill Clinton and Senator John Kerry(1) created regulations that ...
The Energy Grid Is Too Reliant On Electric Compressors For Natural Gas Pipelines
To make solar power viable, there need to be gigantic installations in remote locations. Then there need to be new power lines equivalent to every paved road in America. Then the grid needs to be modernized with battery storage.None of that is happening any time soon but what may spur at least ...
Volcanoes Have Huge Climate Impact, Including Underwater Ones
Natural events like solar cycles, wildfires, and volcanoes have created dramatic shifts in climate throughout history. Sometimes they even have cultural impact, such as the 'year without a summer' in Europe due to a volcano on the other side of the world, which helped inspire Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein ...
Britain's Bubonic Plague Of 2000 BC
Two cases of Yersinia pestis in human remains found in a mass burial in Charterhouse Warren in Somerset and one in a ring cairn monument in Levens in Cumbria show that the Plague may have erupted a few times in severe form across Europe, and it was even in England as far back as 2000 B.C.In the ...
The Spring In Our Step Isn't Just Happiness, It's How We Run So Well On Two Feet
A phrase like 'spring in your step' is usually meant to evoke enthusiasm or happiness but a new study finds that its mechanism, the spring-like arch in our feet, did help us walk on two feet. Just in a different way than previously believed.Most believe that the raised arch of the foot helps us ...
Prenatal High-Fat Diets Linked To Preference For Salty Food - In Female Rats
Many women eat healthier during pregnancy, but that may mean whatever version of 'healthy' is trending in any given year. Sugar-free, low-fat, gluten-free, paleo, organic, it all has proponents, it all has suspect epidemiology papers claiming it should be a reason to buy some New York Times bestselling ...
Epidemiologists Correlate Male Alcohol Consumption To Birth Defects In Mice
Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen that is prized by most of the world. While claims of health benefits were always suspect epidemiology, so were claims that even a glass of wine during pregnancy would cause birth defects. The dose still makes the poison but as modern science journalism ...
COVID-19 Led To More Youth Obesity - And More Bariatric Surgery
Calories cause obesity and while everyone wants a magic solution to eating too much for a prolonged period of time, those with the means can make it reality in the form of surgery.COVID-19 set off a panic in much of culture. Schools were closed, people were ostracized if they didn't think flipping ...
Like Drinking, College Student Binge Eating Can Have Future Consequences If Unchecked
New food surveys show what you probably knew; if you eat too much, you will get fat, and obesity is a risk factor for numerous health issues.In most cases, health advocates worry about the pediatric age but they focus on choosing winners and losers in foods rather than the real culprit, too much ...
Hydrocortisone As Adjunctive Treatment For Septic Shock
Sepsis causes 11 million deaths annually so preventing that requires prompt recognition, source control, antibiotics, fluids and vasopressors.Sometimes adjunctive therapies such as orticosteroids help but the science is inconclusive. A recent study was designed to evaluate the role of corticosteroids ...
Obesity Is A Pediatric Disease, And Entirely Preventable
In the past two decades, children have become more obese and have developed obesity at a younger age. A 2020 report found that 14.7 million children and adolescents in the U.S. live with obesity. Because obesity is a known risk factor for serious health problems, its rapid increase during the COVID ...
FDA Targets Puff And Hyde Disposable E-Cigarettes
In the early days of changes in laws to products like alcohol, some people below the new legal threshold were still able to get it. It was impossible to arrest everyone selling illegally, and there was a certain freedom argument many made, i.e. why can I shoot a Nazi in Europe but not buy a beer ...
Volunteering Linked To Well-Being Of Adolescents
Volunteering often makes us feel good but does it mean better health? Epidemiologists in a new paper argue it does, but the confounders are obvious; parents who take their kids to volunteer are often wealthier and in better health and on surveys about their kids claim better outcomes.The work originated ...
The Scramble To Govern Generative AI In Healthcare
In the 19th century, charlatans traveled around selling magic potions, tonics, and salves but to stop them no one decided to ban actual medical research.The issue facing "AI", which is short for Artificial Intelligence, is that the only people who will feel bound by top-down control were never ...
IARC Conflict Of Interest On Aspartame - Ramazzini Director Seems To Know The Result In Advance
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a United Nations epidemiology group headquartered in France, could be in ethical hot water again over the claim by a Ramazzini Institute leader that seems to know in advance that IARC will consider aspartame a carcinogen - a designation which ...
Endoscopy Gets The Fantastic Voyage Treatment
A traditional endoscopy, while valuable for detecting high-risk lesions, is an expensive, invasive procedure. There are ingestible cameras but are not controlled by physicians, they are just swallowed and the body does the rest.A pilot study brings remote ones closer to the original kind. Physicians ...
On Rachel Carson's Birthday, Let's Talk About Her Dislike Of The Organic Food Movement
Rachel Carson, who launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” was a highly private person. But on one occasion she allowed an interviewer to ask, “What do you eat?” Her sardonic answer: “Chlorinated hydrocarbons like everyone else.” Carson was referring ...
School Shooters Have This In Common Besides Mental Health Issues
There were 93 school shootings in the US in a recent two-year period but they were rarely committed by students. Sometimes they were former students of the school but new a survey analysis say their mental health issues may have been aggravated by memories of bullying.Results from Data on 28,442 ...
Science Without Borders - A Message From The USERN President
The USERN organization (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network) will soon issue its next bulletin, to which I contribute with an opening message in the function of the president of the organization. I thought the contents of the message would be of some interest to some of my readers ...
Impressive research conducted at ETH Zurich did show that quantum entanglement applies to even... more »
A long time ago, this column used to report a lot of detail of my personal life and of daily news... more »
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