The Virus That Turns Physicists Into Crackpots
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Formaldehyde: The Carcinogen That Wasn’t
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Assholery In Academia
Have you ever behaved like an a**hole? Or did you ever have the impulse to do so? Did you ever use your position, your status, your authority to please yourself by crushing some ego? Please answer this in good faith to yourself - nobody is looking behind your shoulders. Take a breath. I know, it's ...
Sour Beer: The Science
Sour beer is not a defect. Some people like the tart, tangy brew which results when wild yeast and bacteria are allowed to grow in freshly brewed beer (wort) and then ferment. It's the opposite of the fresher beer many desire and began as a niche market in in Europe long ago. Now it's taking ...
ALMA's Stellar Egg Hunt Finds A Truly Newborn Star
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile recently took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and their evolution state in order to better understand how and when a stellar embryo transforms to a baby star deep inside a gaseous egg. They also found a bipolar ...
Mars Has Underground Lava Caves So Large We Can Build A Settlement In Them
A lava tube is just what it sounds like; a cave created when the surface of lava hardens but continues to flow underneath. When that trickles to a halt, the cave is left behind.These remaining caves exist on Earth and high-resolution pictures taken by interplanetary probes inferred lava tubes on ...
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 ...
With No Bee Deaths Happening, Activists Now Say Birds Are Dying From Neonicotinoids
Though periodic deaths of bees continue to happen, and have been documented for as long as records of bees have been kept, over 1,000 years, efforts to blame the most recent statistical blip on a newer class of pesticides designed to reduce pesticide usage, neonicotinoids, have fallen flat. Parasites ...
Flying Dinosaurs: Anchiornithine Theropods As The Earliest Birds
A new paper supports the traditional relationship of dromaeosaurid ('raptors') and troodontid theropods as the closest relatives of birds, but also supports the status of the controversial anchiornithine theropods as the earliest birds.The authors say theirs is the most comprehensive study of feathered ...
COVID-19 Is Not Transmitted Through Breast Milk
Samples of breast milk collected by the Mommy's Milk Human Milk Research Biorepository from women infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) only showed one positive for viral RNA. However, subsequent tests found that the virus was unable to replicate, and thus unable ...
Alaska's Salmon Are Getting Smaller, And The Natural Fetish For 'Wild Caught' Is To Blame
Try to imagine a world where people though wild lettuce was a status symbol and superior to lettuce grown on a farm; a salad would cost $400.That is the problem with salmon. Elite customers want to know a laborer sweated for it, they insist if it is farmed it must be inferior but unlike organic ...
Rnf Enzyme: Missing Link Between Anoxic Life On Earth And Modern Respiration
Life developed when there was no oxygen on earth. It was an anoxic environment dominated by bacteria, who instead of oxidation and reduction, as our mitochondria do to produce energy, probably extracted various substances by means of fermentation.But there has long been another possibility ...
UK Transgender Individuals 3X More Likely To Be Autistic
Compared to cisgender people (gender identity corresponds to their sex), an analysis of over 600,000 adults finds transgender and gender-diverse adults are three to six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic. The findings are simply exploratory and about co-occurrence between gender ...
Melanoma: Why Lymph Nodes Matter In How Cancer Cells Spread
If you or someone you know have gotten a cancer diagnosis, you know one of the first tests is to see if it has spread to your lymph nodes.That is because they will often be a harbinger of spread to distant organs. Most cancer deaths happen after cancer spreads to other parts of the body through ...
Hydrocodone, Lorazepam, Oxycodone And More Are Being Prescribed For Dementia With No Evidence They Work
Data from 737,839 people with dementia find that 73.5 percent of them filled at least one prescription for an antidepressant, opioid painkiller, epilepsy drug, anxiety medication or antipsychotic drug in a one-year period. The percentages generally were even higher among women, non-Hispanic ...
Newborn Mothers Get Too Many Opiods, Claim Osteopaths, Then They Circulate Them In Their Community
The 'teach to the protocol' environment created by government and insurance companies has removed much of the critical thinking in modern medicine, and a new paper suggests even more regulations are needed.It suggests that absent control, doctors are giving prescriptions for postpartum pain in ...
The Futurist Quest To Cure Aging, And Why It May Never Work
As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing.In recent decades, we’ve come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world’s leading age-related diseases, such as coronary heart disease, dementia and Alzheimer’s ...
Corgis And Noise, Retrievers And Surfaces - How You Can Reduce Fearfulness In Your Dog
Fear of thunder or other loud noises, nervousness about new areas, and fear of slippery surfaces and heights are common among dogs but a new paper says these non-social fears can be mitigated.Not for all dogs, the typical Cairn Terrier will remain more fearful than the average Chinese Crested ...
What Is That 'Black Goo' Coming From Ancient Egyptian Coffins?
Egyptian coffins and mummy cases have been found covered in a mysterious 'black goo'. What is this goo made from and what can it reveal about Egyptian funerary practice? The British Museum's Kate Fulcher has detailed answers but you can read a summary below.Djedkhonsiu-ef-ankh died almost 3,000 ...
Not Just America: Fluting From 6,000 BC Found In Arabian Excavations
Evidence of prehistoric fluting techniques, using hammering or pressure to create a groove, has been found on the Arabian peninsula from 8,000 years ago.Archeological finds are not new on the Arabian peninsula. There is evidence for lithics (stone tools) but evidence showed they were less advanced ...
'Waiting For Godot' Is Not A COVID-19 Strategy, But It May Be A Metaphor - Editorial
The 1948 Samuel Beckett play "Waiting for Godot" is about two people that are, as you can guess, waiting for Godot. They wait at a tree, but they have no idea who he is or if he will arrive. When the person they do not know and had no idea was ever arriving does not arrive, they decide to commit ...
Terminator 2 T-1000 Gets Closer: A New Material That Can Autonomously Heal In Air And Underwater
A new epoxy material is a first-of-its-kind, 3-D printable, stimuli-responsive polymeric material that enable massive reconfigurability in future military platforms, according to a recent paper.It will have embedded intelligence allowing it to autonomously adapt to its environment without any external ...
Reflections On The Statement “The IAU Has A Clear Ideology About Inclusion That Has To Be Accepted By All Its Members"
POLITICIZATION OF SCIENCE. Reflections on the statement “The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has a clear ideology about Inclusion that has to be accepted by all its members” There are epochs in which science, academia and all intellectual activities are constrained by an ideological ...
'Deepfakes' Are The Most Worrisome Form Of Artificial Intelligence For Terrorism And Crime - And 5 Others To Think About
Experts asked to rank 20 ways Artificial Intelligence could be used to facilitate crime over the next 15 years, in order of concern, listed "deepfakes" - fake audio or video content so real it would have been considered conclusive just a few years ago - as number one.The 20 ways were ...
Coronavirus Gives Us The Chance To Rethink Letting Kids Play Outside Unsupervised
Most adults will remember spending much of their childhood playing outdoors without much parental supervision. But fears for children’s safety plus the demands of modern life mean many parents don’t allow their children the same freedoms. We live in an age where people have distanced themselves ...
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Travelling by YouTube during the Lockdown
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