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Six Questions On AMVA4NewPhysics
The European Commission pays close attention to document the work of the projects that benefited of its funding. With that intent, the AMVA4NewPhysics network has been described, along with its goals, in a 2016 article on the Horizon magazine.And what is this AMwhatchamacallit network anyway? It ...
How They Photographed A Supermassive Black Hole - A Day Astronomers Will Remember For Centuries
First, this is totally harmless. Tiny and far away, shrouded with dust and gas. They can only see it using radio waves that go through the dust. And the photo of course changes nothing, we've know it is there for a long time away. This is a screenshot from the press conference:
And over four ...
Triclosan And 27 Other Ingredients No Longer Allowed In Hand Sanitizers
Consumer hand sanitizers are popular, and they became more popular when brands started advertising they used the same chemicals hospitals use. FDA allowed it starting in 1994 (1994 Health Care Antiseptic
TFM (June 17, 1994, 59 FR
31402)), the same year they gave supplements exemption from real ...
Ship Coating That Has An Air Layer Under Water Increases Efficiency
If you've swum in the ocean you know it requires a lot of energy, and for ships it is no different. Adding to that are the problems of friction, corrosion, and biofilms, all of which cause marine traveler to drag.Science is on the case. New types of ship coatings that permanently retain an air ...
Positive Side Of Climate Change Facts - After Two Years Of Climate Change Action, Heading For 3°C With 1.5°C Well Within Reach
Almost nobody seems to report the positive side of our recent climate change action. It’s remarkable what we’ve done in two years, which gives us much hope that we can indeed rise to the challenge. I have never in my life seen such a coming together of nations worldwide to solve a problem ...
Farmstand: A Celebrity-Backed Bong The Size Of A Phone Booth That Grows Superfoods For Rich Elites
Zooey Deschanel, whose picture could be in the dictionary under "adorkable" thanks to starring roles in "Elf" and "New Girl", isn't well regarded in science, and hasn't been since for as long as she's been undermining it, which is as long as people have known her name. That's now a long time, since ...
Absurd Blog Post At Arctic News Predicts 10 °C Rise In Global Temperatures By 2026 - QUADRATIC To EXTRAPOLATE!
Am debunking this page because it makes a scary prediction of a 10 °C rise by 2026. It is very very silly. By far the silliest post I’ve seen on climate change, and that’s saying something, I’ve seen some ridiculous posts, but this takes the biscuit. I can’t find out ...
Bayer Releases All Glyphosate Safety Studies Used By European Food Safety Authority
Every regulatory body in the world has found that the weedkiller glyphosate is only harmful for plants. And huge studies of over 50,000 farmers have found the same.That hasn't stopped trial lawyers and trade groups that aid them or promote competitors to glyphosate, such as Organic Consumers Association ...
Genetic Engineering Removes Antibiotic Resistance From Bacteria
The conjugative transfer of anti-antibiotic resistance genetic elements could lead to development of probiotic bacteria that re-sensitize resistant bacteria to antibiotics, providing a solution to a crucial problem - how to get new antibiotics when countries cap what companies can charge for medicine ...
Leishmaniosis: Dog To Dog Transmission Without Biting Reported
Canine leishmaniosis is a potentially fatal infection caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum, carried by the female sand fly and transmitted in its bite. It is zoonotic, so can be passed on to people but dogs have been known to pick up the infection after being bitten or wounded by another ...
Papaya Sugarcane May Be On Its Way
The Rainbow Papaya in Hawaii is a great example of how biology solved a devastating problem that nature created and chemicals could not fix. It put GMOs, the successor to mutagenesis, on the map worldwide, and today billions of meals have been served using GMO science.Now a papaya (Carica papaya) ...
Darwin's Raw Dog Food Ironically Uses No Biological Science And Will Poison Your Pet
Everyone in 2019 likes to claim their beliefs are grounded in evidence. The most anti-science groups, from the journalism department at New York University to Greenpeace, still claim to have evidence-based decision-making behind their political or financial agendas. It's no different in the ...
What Is A Normal Testosterone Level? The Answer Is Difficult
Testosterone is the main sex hormone in men. It’s best known for its role in the development of male sexual characteristics and physical features, but there are also many surprising and lesser known functions of testosterone that make it an important hormone in health and disease. Identifying ...
Taste Is Complex And It Changes As We Age
Taste is a complex phenomenon. We do not experience the sensation through a single sense (as we would when we see something using our sense of sight, for example) but rather it is made up of the five senses working together to allow us to appreciate and enjoy food and drink. Initial visual inspection ...
Supplements Can't Prevent Cancer But They Are Linked To It
Supplements are a huge industry that ballooned after President Bill Clinton turned the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 into law and took control of the controversial industry away from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in return for a weak disclaimer that the FDA had not ...
FDA Approves Dovato (dolutegravir And Lamivudine) For HIV-1
Approximately a million people in the U.S. are living with HIV and up to 15 percent may not even know they are infected. In Februrary, the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services announced a new initiative, Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America, to reduce new infections by 75 percent ...
Godly Kings: How War, Politics And Propaganda Helped Bring Down The Mayans
The discovery of an ancient painted vase in the Central America lowlands offers new clues into the mysterious breakdown of ancient Maya civilization - because it bears one of the longest hieroglyphic texts ever found.The shattered vessel was discovered in excavations at the Maya site of Baking ...
When It Comes To Marijuana, Women Are More Conservative Than Men
Surveys show that on issue after issue, women are more liberal than men, save for one: Men are more likely than women to support the legalization of marijuana. Americans are becoming more supportive of marijuana legalization each year but the gender gap remains a constant: While 68 percent of men ...
People Choose Partners With Similar Disease Risk
People choose a life partner who is likely to have a comparable life expectancy and who share similar risks of illnesses - such as high blood pressure or heart disease - according to a genetic study.Some of this seems to have an obvious explanation. If you are fat or smoke, you are more likely ...
Autism Spectrum Diagnoses Rise 26 Percent In 4 Years, Finds CDC
Using records pediatric health clinics, specialized programs for children with developmental disabilities, and special education records along with a review of the abstracted evaluations by trained clinicians using a standardized case definition and method (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Earth Day Tequila: Toxic Carcinogen Maker Casa Herradura Is The Way To Go
Environmentalists may hate science but they love to ignore inconvenient truths about alcohol - namely that it is a toxic carcinogen the way they wish BPA, atrazine, fracking, vaccines (insert whatever they are raising money on this week) could be.Though the International Agency for Research ...
Julian Assange Is Not A Journalist, So Journalists Should Not Make Him A Fourth Estate Martyr
These days, anybody with an internet connection can be a publisher.That doesn’t make everybody a journalist.This distinction has become more important than ever in light of two recent events.One was the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The other was a proposal by lawmakers from Georgia ...
Social Media Made The Modern Anti-Vax Movement Popular, But The Tide Is Turning
As measles outbreaks spread across the U.S., our new look at how information about vaccine safety and reliability spreads online suggests that the tide may be turning against the anti-vaccination movement. Between Jan. 1 and March 28, 387 people contracted measles in 15 U.S. states. Mumps is also ...
Now It's Time To Target Essay Mills, Companies Which Write Student Assignments For A Fee
The U.S. college admissions scandal, where wealthy elites paid to circumvent an arbitrary entrance scoring system at some privileged schools by gaming it, has already led to lawsuits because the value of a degree from USC, Stanford, Yale and others involved has been devalued, students and their ...
A simple slice of life as an academic. No chair was assigned for the session Z13 in which... more »
Today we are between what was supposed the be the day Britain left the EU, and Mothering Sunday... more »
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., has requested a meeting with the management of Walgreens... more »
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loss/destruction is the leading cause of symptoms in patients suffering... more »
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