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Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
The world of elementary particles has something in common with our own: there... Read >
In recent geological history, 90,000 of every 100,000 years have been ice ages... Read >
Two cases of Yersinia pestis in human remains found in a mass burial in Charterhouse... Read >
Calories cause obesity and while everyone wants a magic solution to eating... Read >
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are reporting in the September... Read >
A traditional endoscopy, while valuable for detecting high-risk lesions, is... Read >
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 ...
Joint PhD Positions In Physics And Computer Science Available In Europe
The call for applications to Ph.D. positions at the University of Padova opened yesterday, and it will remain active for less than one month (deadline is June 7th at 1PM CEST). University of Padova is an important centre for academic studies in Italy. It is the third oldest university ...
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 ...
Climate Doomism Is Bad Storytelling
When news about the climate is published, like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, frightening headlines like “final warning” or “now or never” are often the norm. Some activists call this approach “climate doomism”, and are quick to criticize media publications ...
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 ...
Ancient Tibetans Thrived In One Of Earth’s Most Inhospitable Environments Thanks To Dairy Foods
New research shows that dairy products have made life easier for thousands of years. Even in places that are a challenge for anyone, like the Tibetan Plateau - the “roof of the world.”Genetic engineering due to natural selection at several genomic loci certainly made early Tibetans better ...
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 ...
Virtual Pollution Statistically Linked To Irregular Heartbeats In China
A new paper in Canadian Medical Association Journal has linked irregular heartbeats in 322 Chinese cities to small-micron particulate matter, invisible pollution that needs an electron microscope to visualize. Given its minute size, PM2.5 is one-fourth the size of real pollution, PM10, there is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bionic Pancreas For Type 1 Diabetes Gets FDA Clearance
A wearable, pocket-sized, automated insulin delivery device has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company calls is the iLet Bionic Pancreas but it's obviously not bionic any more than String Theory is a scientific theory. However, it is now available in this universe ...
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 ...
On Language And Intelligence
A revolution is taking place, but we seem to not yet realize it. Paradigm shifting technologies often produce an abrupt transition when they get adopted. However, that transition is not easy to recognize early on: the effects of an exponential trend appear linear at the begninning, so the ...
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 »
I have recently watched two videos on climate change by Sabine Hossenfelder. The first one... more »
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