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By Mark Pierce
The Probability Density Function: A Known Unknown
A new simulation claims small-micron particulate matter, so small you need... Read >
The human race has made huge progress in the past few thousand years, gradually... Read >
You've heard that you should get eight hours of sleep per night, a whole industry... Read >
Almost 2,000 years ago in modern-day Uttar Pradesh, India, someone deposited... Read >
Honeybees are important pollinators for agriculture like the sweetener and... Read >
Black Holes: Now With No Singularity
Albert Einstein has been proven right many times but some things his equations predicted have yet to be shown to be science and yet remain part of the popular consciousness about science.Like a "singularity", where the laws of physics cease to apply, at the heart of black holes. Though ...
The Night Sky From Atacama
For the third time in 9 years I am visiting San Pedro de Atacama, a jewel in the middle of nowhere in northern Chile. The Atacama desert is a stretch of extremely dry land at high altitude, which makes it exceptionally attractive for astronomical activities. In its whereabouts, e.g., are some of ...
Safe Water May Be Killing You
The drinking water treatment process is designed to remove harmful pathogens that are prevalent in nature, but a new study suggests that it may be harmful also.Scientists know that inert ingredients are not harmful you but the authors of the new paper invoke the environmental "chemical cocktail" ...
Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Common
A new study of light anomalies combined with results from a Korea Microlensing Telescope Network microlensing survey show that super-Earths exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun. Which means that Earth-like exoplanets are a lot more common NASA press releases over ...
'Public Trust Doctrine' - How Lawyers Use Children To File Climate Change Lawsuits
An ancient legal principle has become a key strategy of American children seeking to reduce the effects of climate change in the 21st century. A defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 has not stopped the effort, which has several legal actions continuing in the courts.The legal basis for ...
Cover Plants Can Remove Toxic Pesticides Like Copper Sulfate From Soil
For farmers, land is their most valuable asset so they protect it in ways environmentalists do not understand. By using science whenever possible, to reduce water, energy, and environmental strain.Even organic farmers use toxic pesticides but because they are older and less effective they must ...
Big Organic Continues To Oppose Food That Uses No Pesticides
I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has made any progress now that a member of a Republican administration who was formerly one of their own, former Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is being helped by ...
The Government Wants More Coal To Get Energy Costs Down - Is That Bad For The Air?
President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal leasing on federal lands while classifying coal as a critical mineral. Social media critics, and academics being quoted in media, are declaring the end of the world due to American pollution. Are they correct?They are ...
Raman Spectroscopy Makes Saliva A Good Way To Detect Cancer
A few drops of saliva can now reveal what used to require a scalpel, a syringe or a scan.Scientists have developed ways to analyze spit for the tiniest traces of illness – from mouth cancer to diabetes, and even brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. Unlike blood tests or biopsies, saliva is easy ...
Toward A Unified Theory Of How Language Evolved
Humans are the only species on earth that uses language, combining sounds into words and words into sentence with infinite meanings. We do this using linguistic rules for calls and sentence structure. "A dog eats" tells us one thing while "a big dog" means another while "you're such a dog" from ...
Becoming The Music: How Our Brains Sync With Sound To Create Emotion
Some psychologists believe our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, we become it. We physically resonate with it. They call their belief Neural Resonance Theory (NRT). They use Theory is in the name, but it is not a theory like gravity or evolution, the proper name means it is ...
You Can't Spell Replanted Rainforest Without T-E-R-M-I-T-E
Nature is out to kill everything, it is the circle of life, and that is why replanting rainforest without including some termites is counter-intuitively bad, finds a new paper.The balance of nature doesn't exist and believing that plant diversity alone will work is in defiance of how ecosystems ...
Fisetin To Prevent Artery Hardening
In a new study, researchers found that the polyphenol fisetin helps protect blood vessels from hardening, which is a common problem in older adults and people with kidney disease. If eventually validated in human trials, it might mean it could prevent vascular calcification and reduce cardiovascular ...
Social Drinking Is A Bigger Problem Than Drinking Alcohol Alone
No doctor tells patients to smoke cigarettes "in moderation", they are a known carcinogen and not smoking cigarettes is one of the top three ways to prevent lifestyle diseases. Yet culture has been grabbed by twin pincers when it comes to alcohol. American women are told if they have a glass of ...
Opiate Of The Masses: Ancient Andes Used Hallucinogens To Keep People Positive
Americans like to be outraged by things, in 2025 the right is outraged by seed oils while the left is outraged about lack of capitalism, but older civilizations wanted people to stay calm.When we think of the Andes today, we may think of the Incas, but they were colonizers just like Spain ...
Cigarette Smoking Is A Pediatric Disease, And Kids Today Want No Part Of It
Cigarettes are a known carcinogen because you are inhaling smoke. Any time you inhale smoke, PM10 from fires or marijuana or anything else, you are rolling the dice of your future.Decades of health awareness campaigns by us and groups like us have made a difference among the young, just like smoking ...
Brain Organoid Research Shows Science Academia Needs Stronger Ethical Oversight
As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable ...
Only Polarized People Want Companies In Polarized Political Issues
Last year, companies began to pull back from promoting their Diversity Equity Inclusion efforts and social justice activists blamed the incoming Trump administration. It has been a violation of federal law to discriminate for 60 years so to moderates it seemed odd to add a layer of discrimination ...
COVID-19 Border Closures Increased German Dislike Of Immigrants
Early in 2020, the President of the United States said America should cut travel from China due to COVID-19 concerns. This was dismissed as xenophobia by states like New York and California, because the World Health Organisation had not declared it a pandemic.(1)In Europe, 18 countries knew better ...
Character In The Dark: How People Face Moral Dilemmas
An old saying goes that 'character is what you are in the dark', which is a way of stating that how you'd behave if no one was there to see you is really who you are outside the world of surveys.Yet a new study may show why surveys predict outcomes so poorly. Researchers found that people typically ...
If You Buy Magic Rocks, You're The Target Market For HoLDI-MS To Detect Nanoplastic
Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not suddenly simping for Trickle Down Economics, Vaccines, and Capitalism they distrusted just a short while ago.Naturally, companies are ...
How Does Streaming Technology Work?
Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic by volume in 2022, and the top 10 days for internet traffic in 2024 coincided with live streaming events such as the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match and coverage of the NFL. Streaming enables seamless, on-demand ...
How Things Are Made
If the supply chain collapsed tomorrow, could you build a toaster? Would you really even want to try? People make homemade jam and all-natural weedkillers that are ironically stuffed with chemicals but no one makes their own toaster. It would be among the first things dismissed as unimportant ...
US Government Wants To End 54 Years Of Subsidized Media
The Trump administration’s drive to slash government spending on everything from the arts to cancer research also includes efforts to carry through on the Republican Party’s long-standing goal of ending federal funding for NPR, the nation’s public radio network, and PBS, its television counterpart ...
According to observations made by NASA using the James Webb Space Telescope, there is a three point... more »
In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same... 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 »
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