Getting To The Heart Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
By W. Glen Pyle
Drugs For Different Bodies: The Female Side...
The Virus That Turns Physicists Into Crackpots
Formaldehyde: The Carcinogen That Wasn’t
The "Large Molecule Heimat" is a very dense, hot gas clump within the star... Read >
A new analysis suggests the planet can produce much more land-plant biomass... Read >
Yaws is a childhood disease causing highly infectious skin lesions. It is spread... Read >
When e-cigarettes - vaping - began to gain in popularity in the early part... Read >
If you’re serious about pursuing an extended education in science, you may... Read >
A new mathematical model seeks to predict economic performance of crops, which... Read >
Phosphine On Venus Sounds Obscure But Here Is Why It's A Big Deal
On Sept. 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable worlds in the Solar System: Venus. Phosphine, a toxic gas made up of one phosphorus and three hydrogen atoms (PH₃), commonly produced by organic life forms but otherwise difficult to make on rocky planets, was discovered ...
Discovered: WD 1586 B, A Planet That Survived The Death Of Its Star
(Inside Science) -- For the first time, an intact world may have been discovered around a white dwarf, suggesting that even after typical stars die, they may still host planets, a new study finds.White dwarfs are the cooling Earth-size cores of dead stars left behind after average-size stars have ...
Tennessee Whiskey: The Science Of The Lincoln County Process
You can't market a "Tennessee whiskey" unless it goes through charcoal filtration called the Lincoln County Process, named such after the locale of the original Jack Daniel's distillery. Charcoal is not exclusive to American blended whiskey, this type of filtration is a common step ...
Collision Course: The Andromeda Galaxy Halo Is Already Running Into Our Own
The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor, has been found to have a nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma that extends about halfway to our Milky Way.That's 1.3 million light-years, and it may go 2 million light-years in some parts, which means Andromeda's halo is already touching ...
Some U.S Cities Could Subsist On Locally Grown Food - If The Local Area Is Large Enough
A new estimate says that of 378 metropolitan areas, many could actually exist on locally grown food - if the local area is up to 200 miles away, which means New York City could claim farms in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut are local to New York ...
Climate Change: Engineering Models Hope For Best Outcomes - And Any Chess Player Knows That's Terrible Strategy
Did you read a paper saying we can prevent ocean damage under climate change scenarios by dumping iron into water to spur phytoplankton growth? Germans did, and were so convinced they began doing illegal live experiments. The model used a best-case scenario, which any entry-level chess player ...
Our Food Supply Was Built On Engineering Plants: The War On Science Risks That Food Security
The majority of today's plant-based food was created using scientific optimization of traits - genetic engineering. Watermelons, bananas, tomatoes, lettuce, and corn are all great examples of genetically engineered foods that few realize are not natural even if they carry an "organic" manufacturing ...
Consumers Don't Realize It But The Pandemic Has Clobbered Farmers
Tennessee corn, soybean, cotton and wheat producers are estimated to have declines in income of $58.8 million, $21.4 million, $20.3 million and $1.2 million, respectively, for a total decline of $101.7 million - and that's just what is known right now.Consumers have been able to endure this COVID ...
Another Argument For Eradication Of Aedes Aegypti: The Viruses They Spread Are Linked To Stroke
A new study shows there is even more reason to worry about the Zika and chikungunya viruses and the pests that spread them; increased risk of neurological diseases like stroke.Aedes aegypti, the mosquito most commonly associated with spread of Zika and Chikungunya, are essentially ecologically ...
Surrogate Sires: CRISPR Pigs And Cattle Could Produce Sperm Carrying Only The Genetic Traits Of Donor Animals
In the old days, if you wanted to spread desirable characteristics in livestock you had to try breeding and hope for the best. The 19th century breakthroughs in genetics promised a future where trial and error was no longer the norm.Now, with desire to optimize food production and reduce environmental ...
Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres To Understand Language, But Adults Don't
Children learn languages much easier than adults, and also seem to recover from neural injuries better. The reason may be that adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two hemispheres, while kids use both the right and left hemispheres to ...
New Species In The Same Group As Lobsters Found Living In The Hottest Place On Earth
When you think of shrimp, lobster, or crabs, you don't think of the hottest place on Earth, but a new freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the desert Lut, which is the record-holder for temperature on land. The Lut desert, Dasht-e Lut in Farsi, is the second largest ...
COVID-19 Has Brought 'Thirdhand' Smoke Epidemiology Back From Its Science Grave
With COVID-19 and worries about the SARS-CoV-2 virus keeping millions of people at home, activists and lawyers are hoping to resurrect worry about a problem dismissed by scientists as a money grab; third-hand smoke.Smoking is a carcinogen and a risk factor for many diseases, that science is settled ...
Rapamycin May Prevent Sarcopenia And Keep Muscles Stronger For Longer
We're living longer than ever, but that means we now have to think about new issues that were uncommon when life expectancy was low. Muscles shrink and their strength dwindles as we age. When that is excessive, the condition is called sarcopenia, and it affects every third person over the ...
Melittin: Honeybee Venom Compound Kills Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells
The compound melittin, found in honeybee venom, rapidly destroyed triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer cells in a recent study. In the 1950s, bee venom was found to reduce the growth of tumors in plants and in the last two decades interest grew into the effects of honeybee ...
Bill Gates Will NOT And CANNOT Inject Us With A Microchip In A Vaccine - Fails Basic Fact Check
Bill Gates doesn't make vaccines. There are now 176 vaccines from many different countries, thirty four of those already in clinical trials and eight in phase 3. Some may be approved soon, and none are made by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.
The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation does ...
Social Media Political Ads: Less Negative, But More Partisan
While it is said that around six percent of voting Americans decide elections - the truly undecided - it is more the case that getting out the vote among your own party matters most. That is why political parties will drive their own to polling places while telling the other side the date of the ...
Independent Frontier Mentality Still Exists In Modern Mountain Regions - And With It Less Neuroticism
If you are a tourist and visit California in the United States or Bavaria in Germany, you will quickly notice it is not like a lot of other places in those countries. A cultural mentality exists and people who identify with the stereotype are more likely to stay or even move there.A new paper finds ...
A Science Communication Proposal For Pandemic Times
As every other aspect of human life, science communication has suffered a significant setback due to the ongoing Covid-19-induced pandemic. While regular meetings of scientific teams can be effectively held online, through zoom or skype, it is the big conferences that are suffering the biggest ...
Your Boss May Be A Jerk, But That's Not Why They Got Ahead
Two studies of people who had completed personality assessments as undergraduates or MBA students at three universities, and were surveyed again over a decade later and ranked by co-workers about their workplace behavior, found that those with selfish, deceitful, and aggressive personality traits ...
Gentle Medicine: Be Less Interventionist And Other Changes To Routine Practice
Numerous criticisms of medical science have been articulated in recent years. Some critics argue that spurious disease categories are being invented, and existing disease categories expanded, for the aim of profit. Others say that the benefits of most new drugs are minimal and typically exaggerated ...
COVID-19 Has Been A Gold Rush For Journals - But Media Coverage Of The 'Infodemic' May Confuse The Public
Are you excited about dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates? Do you get confused about whether or not it's as harmful to have been exposed to the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus as it is to have COVID-19? Do you think the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine will either save you from COVID-19 or give you ...
No Matter Who Wins The U.S. Election, COVID-19 Social Unrest Could Be Rampant
Are Proud Boys and Antifa fighting each other 'to oppose fascism' a product of the COVID-19 pandemic? No, militant groups have always attracted people with pathologies who just need a reason to be violent, but pandemics do cause social unrest, at least historically.There is a lot more isolation ...
Fitness Overtraining And How To Avoid It
There’s a thin line between working hard enough and working too hard. Pushing your body to reach new levels of fitness requires commitment, effort and a willingness to put yourself through intense, challenging workouts on a regular basis. But more isn’t always better. Without the right balance ...
Mainstream “news” has a problem. Reporters for more traditional big name organizations... more »
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Hello! Years and years have gone by without a blog. For reasons I do not understand, I appear to... more »
Travelling by YouTube during the Lockdown
During the lockdown, and not even able to take a... more »
The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more... more »
