Gender Ideology In Science
Vaping Over Cigarettes: A Public Health Win
Handshake Chain Through History
Choosing Models By Eye
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Death rates from cancer have been falling for 25 years, but the next generation... Read >
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Since spot weather events are once again proof of global warming, reversing... Read >
Hexenyl Butyrate: Volatile Compound Found In Tomato Plants Protects Against Bacteria
Tomato plants emit a volatile compound named hexenyl butyrate which can be used for closing the stomata, key in protecting plants from bacterial attacks.But Center for Science in the Public Interest and Environmental Working Group don't need to mobilize the trial lawyers, this volatile ...
Update On 2002 NT7 - Flew Past At A Great Distance, 16.50 UTC Today 13th January - That's Further Away Than Mars At Its Closest
2002 NT7 is closest at 16.50 today, UTC time. It will be 61 million kilometers away and they know the distance exactly to within 127 kilometers, and the time of the flyby accurate to the nearest minute. It is no risk to Earth.
It is already well above our orbit though, it crossed the orbit of ...
Why You Don’t Need To Worry About Asteroid 2002 NT7
It actually crossed our orbit already on the 8th. It is already moving upwards away from our orbit. Earth is catching up on it from behind and is closest on the 13th at 61 million kilometers. That's further away than Mars at its closest, and much further away than Venus at its closest.
The ...
In 2021, Beans Will Be Grown In Space
Traveling to Mars is a ridiculous idea outside anything but "adventure" yet the U.S. administration under President Obama scrubbed his predecessor's return to the moon and replaced it with a program bearing his name, going to the red planet.Whether or not that actually happens, science and technology ...
Space Weather Has A Bigger Impact Than Many Realize, Better Forecasting Will Help
Space weather and its changes to earth's magnetic fields has an outsized impact in Arctic regions through effects on electricity networks, mining operations and shipping. A new technique called Fractional Derivative Rate (FDR) published in Space Weather has been used for analyzing fluctuations ...
Green Liver: Houseplant Genetically Modified To Filter Even Toxic Levels Of Home Air
House plants can help clean a home's air, but unless you live in a greenhouse a mechanical high-efficiency particulate (HEPA) air filter is the way to go, because it forces pet dander, pollen (even cigarette smoke if you still do that) or pollen through a mesh that traps those. Plants may ...
Akkadia: How Climate Change Doomed The World’s First Empire
Gol-e-Zard Cave lies in the shadow of Mount Damavand, which at more than 5,000 metres dominates the landscape of northern Iran. In this cave, stalagmites and stalactites are growing slowly over millennia and preserve in them clues about past climate events. Changes in stalagmite chemistry from ...
By Fixing Nature's Gap In Photosynthesis, Crops Could Get An Additional 40% Boost
The United States, and other countries with modern science and technology regulations, have enjoyed terrific boosts in yields, so great that food has become a cheap commodity, which has allowed for alternative processes (organic, shade tree, natural, etc.) to flourish by charging a premium.Science ...
Using Artificial Intelligence On The Genome Uncovers New Missing Link In Evolution
A recent study using deep learning algorithms and statistical methods discovered the footprint of a new hominid who cross bred with the ancestors of Asiatic individuals tens of thousands of years ago.Modern human DNA computational analysis suggests that the extinct species was a hybrid of ...
Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Stephensi Found In Ethiopia For The First Time
Anopheles stephensi, a malaria disease vector, is normally found in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and China. But now it has been found in Ethiopia, where over 68 percent of the population is already at risk for malaria and an average of 2.5 million cases are reported annually. The highest ...
Your Brain Can Still Pay Attention During Sleep - And Science Can Now Hear What Your Sleeping Brain Hears
Our brains can track the sounds in its environment while we sleep, and favor the most relevant ones, according to a recent study.No great new information there. Everyone has woken up from sleep because of noise. But the mechanism that allows us (and some better than others) to sleep in complete ...
Environmental Antibiotic Resistance Linked To Feces - Evolution Or Sewage Plants?
Fecal pollution can explain a lot of the increase in resistant bacteria where humans live, but not all of it. In some cases resistance genes were common without the presence of “crAssphage”, a bacteriophage common in human feces - environments polluted with high levels of antibiotics ...
Conventional, Organic, When It Comes To Pesticides The American Food Supply Is Safe Again This Year
Despite another year of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hyperventilating weeks after a foodborne illness occurs (devastating lettuce farmers while showing how they little they know when exaggerating what they do know), the more evidence-based bodies at the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of five years of death certificates (2011-2016) found that among drug overdose deaths 29 percent were due to fentanyl by 2016, a huge leap from 4 percent in 2011, when oxycodone was most dangerous at 13 percent.Heroin was second (25.1%), cocaine ...
Uterus Transplant From A Deceased Donor Leads To First Baby
Infertility affects about 10 percent of couples and among them are one in 500 women with congenital defects in their uterus or a medical issue that caused damage. In the past, that meant adoption but recently uterus transplants became possible. In 2013, Sweden performed the first and since then ...
More Brown Fat May Be A Solution For The Obesity Crisis
Obesity is a disease where people accumulate more and more fat. When they reach a certain point, their fat stops working and they develop disease, such as type 2 diabetes. But not all fat is bad. The fat that accumulates in obesity is called white fat, but a second form of fat (brown fat) could ...
"All Five Major Health Certifications": Drake’s Organic Spirits Wants You To Think Its Booze Is Better For You
Drake’s Organic Spirits is touting it is the "first and only spirits line in the world to receive all five major health certifications." By "health", for four of them they simply mean manufacturing or cultural preferences; kosher, vegan, Non-GMO Project, and USDA Organic. (1) For the health-related ...
4 Lessons The AIDS Epidemic Taught Us About How To Deal With The Opioid Addiction Crisis
Medicine is not going to be enough. That was the first lesson that the world learned when Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) raged across cultures in the 1980s. Though its cause was learned to be Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) its transmission was social. In some undeveloped countries ...
Greenpeace: Spewing Environmental Toxins, Too Cheap To Clean Up Their Mess, And More Tales Of Hypocrisy
Which corporation lets executives commute to work on emissions-belching airplanes, damages native landmarks while putting up advertising, speculates on international bank trade while saddling consumers with their losses, and writes policies for its customers that it then defies in its own ...
Predicting Teen Rape: Age Difference, Socioeconomic Status, Other Violent Behavior
Lacking clairvoyant technology as in "The Minority Report", predicting teen rape is impossible, but there are risk factors that can be warning signs. A group of sociologists conducted interviews with victims from their university, a two-year college and community sites serving low-income ...
'No Pain, No Gain' Culture In Sports: Time To Stop Glorifying Sacrifice?
Two things struck me while watching Andy Murray’s press conference from the Australian Open, in which he announced his intention to retire. He spoke about the pain he had lived with “over the past 20 months or so”, and how he had planned to continue until Wimbledon this summer but was no ...
A Baltic Lesson For The US In How To Counter Russian Disinformation Tactics
As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications and misleading posts made by agents of the Russian government on social media in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.After ...
Open Access Promotes Scientific Discovery - Efforts Like Canada's Aggressive New Copyright Dates Hold It Back
As European science-related institutions, such as the European Research Council, have shown their growing preference for Open Access, e.g., via the Plan S, the primary rationale for this is the positive effect on the discovery of new knowledge that various models of Open Access can be expected ...
The Golden Globes Did Something Pro-Science, And Anti-Vaxxers Were Enraged
When I first began writing about the anti-vaccine issue, California was the home of the movement (1). The state had more philosophical exemptions than the rest of the country combined, and they were primarily wealthy white elites living on the coast.You know, like Hollywood.Things have changed ...
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16:8 is a form of daily fasting wherein people eat whatever
they choose for 8 hours and fast for... more »
As useless as this post may be, I wish to write here a few impressions from my trip to the island... more »
Today is Christmas, and about this time folks in the New World may be thinking about breakfast... more »
The following outlines the steps of a proposed research flow for technical an engineering students... more »
