Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
A Million-Year-Old Mammoth May Hold The Key...
By Irena Šoljić
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
The dose makes the poison, except in academic epidemiology, where H-Index and... Read >
While deforestation has declined rapidly in the last 60 years, clearing trees... Read >
Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily... Read >
It's that time of year when activists, academics, and social media mavens hoping... Read >
If you visit Japan, you may be surprised that Japanese traffic lights have... Read >
Love Thine EnemyIt is exceedingly rare that the scientist and the believer... Read >
One Year Internship In Padova For Master Graduates In Sciences
Did you recently finish a Master in a scientific discipline, and wish to do some research before deciding whether to embark in a Ph.D.? Do you fancy coming to Padova and work with me and a team of physicists, computer scientists, and astrophysicists on detector optimization? Do you like the idea ...
The Proton, A Bag Of Garbage
Since most of the building blocks of our own body are protons, the above title might disturb sensitive readers. On the other hand, describing a proton as a bag of garbage has several merits, as it is a fruitful analogy that may be carried forward when we wish to examine experiments that studied ...
Dating A Vampire Hunter? Here Is How To Get Rid Of That Garlic Breath
Halloween is the time of year when you are most likely to find out your significant other is a vampire - or vampire hunter. Sure, vampires can't be real and never have been, there can't really be hunters for those any more than there are ghost hunters, but History Channel is stuffed with people ...
The Toxic Chemicals In Your Organic Pumpkin: Happy Halloween!
Halloween is just a few days away so prior to worrying about razor blades in candy or kids getting run down in the streets you may want to think about pumpkins.They are full of toxic chemicals. Even organic pumpkins.Andy Brunning, of the Compound Interest site, made this graphic for Chemical ...
Sugarcane For Biofuels Will Need GMOs
Though there are science and engineering hurdles to overcome, governments are keen on using food for fuel. Corn is most common right now but sugar is also a target for legislators who want to pivot away from conventional energy.Brazil is understandably interested in getting out in front of the ...
Why Does Anyone Still Search For The Loch Ness Monster?
Hugh Gray was taking his usual post-church walk around Loch Ness in Scotland on a November Sunday in 1933. His amble was disrupted when he saw something bobbing above the water two or three feet from him. He quickly snapped several pictures of what he described to the Scottish Daily Record ...
Enhanced Weathering And Protecting The Climate
Global warming is not new to the history of our planet, and so, by studying previous periods of global warming, scientists hope to uncover secrets that can be used to combat global warming today. The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum, which occurred some 40 million years ago, has attracted particular ...
Hurricanes: Two Ways They Intensify
Hurricane Katrina was not dangerous until it hit land in Louisiana. But it intensified and since activists had successfully lobbied the Clinton administration to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from making repairs, devastation occurred.Injuries and lives lost may have been reduced if there ...
Concern About Microplastics From Sex Toys Overblown
Microplastics are a kernel of biological concern that gets magnified by hype, like endocrine "disrupting" chemicals or weedkillers detectable in breast milk. In modern times, we can detect anything in anything, so the 'zero' levels of the 1960s no longer exist, because testing is 1,000,000 times ...
Excess Fluoride In African Wells Linked To Cognitive Impairment In Kids
The benefits of fluoridated water are well-established but when nature rather than science is in charge it can be harmful. The dose makes the poison and over 200 million people worldwide are estimated to be exposed to high fluoride levels in their drinking water. A new study finds that long-term ...
Thanks To Ancient Evolution, Your Body Makes Its Own Anti-Viral Drugs
Antiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections. My laboratory studies a protein that makes these natural antiviral ...
Crossmodal: Your Sense Of Smell May Change The Colors You See
Our five senses are gathering information at all times. One way our brain sorts the abundance of information is by combining information from two or more senses, such as between smells and the smoothness of textures, or pitch, color, and musical dimensions. It may be why we began to associate higher ...
What Does ChatGPT Say About Holiday Eating Health?
Data tools like ChatGPT, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence (if you think a fancy autocomplete is actual AI), have the promise to do a lot of good. There are some concerns about human content 'creators' being replaced but we don't miss the 150,000 fewer bank tellers we had before the rise ...
Is Flossing A Waste Of Time?
Like the CDC manufacturing a prediabetes epidemic and pregnant women getting a scarlet letter if they have a glass of wine while pregnant, flossing seems to be a distinctly American phenomenon. Are we right? The British are famous for bad teeth, for example, and fiscal conservatives will say that's ...
Red Meat Isn't Linked To Heart Inflammation
Some controversial claims by epidemiologists with links to anti-meat groups (Frank Hu, Walter Willett, et al.) suggest that a normal human diet containing meat causes inflammation, which they then link to increased risk of heart disease.A risk factor for a risk factor for a disease isn't very compelling ...
Treating Psilocybin With Anxiety, Depression And Emotional Distress
A recent Colorado University study is investigating the use of the naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound, psilocybin, in treating anxiety, depression, and existential distress in people with advanced cancer. During the clinical trials, a single 25mg dose of psilocybin 25mg was ...
Absolute Vs Relative Risk: Why Parents Shouldn't Worry About Kids Walking On Halloween
Common sense says that if you have a lot more people walking, often in dark costumes, and just as many people driving, plus more people drinking alcohol than would otherwise occur on a Tuesday, pedestrian fatalities will go up. Common sense is right. They will.But from a relative risk point ...
Why Do Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Take More Psychotropic Medication?
A new analysis found an increasing trend in psychotropic medication dispensation for Swedish children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. The results from from 2006 to 2019 showed consistent higher use than kids without type 1 diabetes. Epidemiologists will say it makes sense because young ...
The COVID-19 Pandemic Led To 25% More Mental Health Spending On Youths
Spending on mental health for teens and younger rose by 26 percent from March 2020 to August 2022 - but it may be even higher because the analysis only saw families with employer-provided insurance from one group, Castlight Health, which managers employer-sponsored health insurance plans for ...
Peace Through Partying At The Sorceror's Wake
At the Hilazon Tachtit cave site, before it was Israel, before King David even fought the Philistines, the area north of Nazareth and west of the Sea of Galilee was populated by Natufians, an early settled people, and in 2008 archaeologists revealed details of a burial site unlike any other found ...
Most Baby Daddy's Show Positive Co-Parenting
In the United States, 40 percent of births are to unmarried women, and there are nearly 13.6 million single parents raising over 21 million children. In 84 percent of cases, the single-parent homes are women. They are often low income.That doesn't mean the fathers aren't involved. Over than half ...
A Torino Scale For Artificial Intelligence, And What To Do With It
In recent times, artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous. Besides powering our cellphones, directing what advertisements we get when we browse internet or read our emails, and creating content in the media, AI-powered hardware is more and more widespread, including self-driving vehicles, ...
Electric Cars Are The Espresso Machines Of Automobiles
Government forces automobile companies to sell electric cars - and then forces all taxpayers to subsidize the purchases. With mandates and subsidies, there is no free market and that means companies primarily want to make the cars that will generate the most profit, which means the most expensive ...
Interdisciplinary Science, Art, And A Prize Festival At The 8th USERN Congress
The 8th Congress of the USERN Organization took place during the past three days (November 8-10, 2023) at the RAU University in Yerevan, Armenia, and it was a complete success, which has left me overwhelmed by the amount of great interdisciplinary science, fantastic art in multiple forms, ...
A brief personal update as to what I have been doing. There has been much interesting science... more »
This plant above is what is regarded as a typical fern. However, a quite different looking type... more »
A long time ago, this column used to report a lot of detail of my personal life and of daily news... more »
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