Six-muon Events Probe Proton Collision Dynamics
Inflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
By W. Glen Pyle
Up-to-date With The Big Bang, Mass, And Protons
A Million-Year-Old Mammoth May Hold The Key...
By Irena Šoljić
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We're only two weeks into winter and a New York university is already declaring... Read >
An examination of more than 300 sudden, unexpected deaths in young children... Read >
A population-based cohort study sought to examine a controversial epidemiological... Read >
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Though every medical school and residency program has sexual harassment training... Read >
Thermodynamic Parameters Can Influence The Outcome Of An Experiment
When you are making a model it is common to make assumptions about the physical systems often assume that measurable features of the system. Temperature or chemical potential can be specified. The real world is messier than that, and uncertainty is unavoidable. Temperatures fluctuate, instruments ...
Revealed: The Color Of Uranus
It is commonly said that Neptune is azure blue and Uranus pale cyan green – but a new study shows the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought. Because Uranus’ appearance and color has changed over the decades in response to the weirdest seasons in the Solar System ...
Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity - Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?
In some homes, it is believed that static electricity can lead to inferior grinding, and that has coffee connoisseurs searching for answers.Will water help, or is it just making a mess because while a little may help, people will use too much? Coffee is prone to fads the way athletics - nasal ...
Herds And Shepherds In Cosmology
The Universe is
very large, and we are very small compared to it, not only in size. Creating a
cosmology that attempts to explain the whole existing Universe is an obsession
shared by all cultures. We think we now have the true cosmological model, like
many civilizations that have come before ...
Bringing Climate Change Into Physics Classrooms
Physics is one of the most remarkable scientific subjects there is. It incorporates many incredible discoveries, like The Quantum Leap, the Law of Falling Bodies, Universal Gravitation, and the Laws of Motion. However, understanding how extraordinary physics is doesn’t mean you’ll excel ...
Sometimes A Fossil Plant Is A Fossil Baby Turtle
A new study re-examined these “plant” fossils from the mid-20th century and found that they weren’t plants at all: they were the fossilized remains of baby turtles.The plants in question had been described by Padre Gustavo Huertas in 2003 as Sphenophyllum colombianum and based on collected ...
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 ...
Yew Knew This: The Fens Of England Once Held Vast Woodlands
While deforestation has declined rapidly in the last 60 years, clearing trees to make room for farmland was once essential. Even an island like England had farming going back thousands of years. Hundreds of dead tree trunks in the low-lying Fens of eastern England, caught in the machinery ...
We're So Wealthy Even Poor People Can Afford To Be Fat - Ask For Less Fatty Liver Disease For Christmas
The upside to greater wealth equality than at any point in human history is that nearly everyone can afford food for the first time ever. The famines of the 1980s have been effectively eliminated by science. The downside is that cultural maturity has not kept pace with our biological mandate to ...
Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior
Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.For 119 years, a belief that the way honeybees cluster together gives them a kind of evolutionary insulation has been ...
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 ...
American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs
It is an unfortunate reality in America that medical societies have an outsized influence on government policy. We are the only country with a nonexistent condition called "prediabetes" because the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has oversized influence at the US Centers for Disease Control ...
Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years - It's Time For That To End
Politics is about trade-offs. Perhaps a reason President Biden isn't better-regarded is because if Congress didn't give him what he wanted, he circumvents them with agencies he controls, such as OSHA with vaccine mandates, the CDC with rent control, and EPA to ban safe weedkillers and pesticides ...
Bipolar Disorder Is Greater Risk Of Early Death Than Smoking
Bipolar disorder, a mental illness with both manic and depressed moods, is often resulting in earlier death than others, by up to 15 years. In two groups, people with bipolar disorder were four to six times more likely as people without the condition to die prematurely, while people who had ever ...
For 2024, Let's Do Something About Sepsis
Sepsis - blood poisoning - is a severe immunological overreaction to an infection, and hospitals can often be a cause rather than a solution. A guess by the World Health Organisation is that up to 20 percent of deaths worldwide have sepsis as a factor. A new analysis finds that up to 40 percent ...
Rural Areas Need A 'Doctors Without Borders' Initiative From Wealthy Physicians In Cities
If a doctor declares that they are going to another country on vacation to provide free medical care, they get a great deal of social currency from that. Ask a San Francisco doctor to travel to rural California to do the same and you'll be dismissed.A new article suggests paying them. It is not ...
We Often Keep Secrets Because We Don't Want To Be Judged - But Few Actually Care
If you're holding back on revealing negative secrets about yourself, new survey results in a social psychology journal say you can relax; most people don't care.When study participants pushed through fear to reveal a secret, those in whom they confided were significantly more charitable than they ...
In The New Year, Consider Less-Discussed Health Benefits
Everyone wants an easy solution to being more fit but the only thing easy is eating too much pizza. Since 2022 we've been treated to far too many pictures of celebrities with weird "Ozempic Face" because their vanity is stronger than their desire for energy balance.You don't need a gimmick, you ...
If You Fear Dementia In A Relative, Ask Awkward Questions About Money
No one likes to talk to elder family members about money, it can come across as greedy, but a sign of cognitive impairment that isn't obvious, like drastic memory loss, is 'wealth shock' - a sudden loss of savings.Wealth shock does not cause dementia or Alzheimer's, sorry IARC epidemiologists, ...
The Harvard Anti-Semitism Controversy Also Revealed The Scholarship Cancer Inside Academia
University of Kentucky political science Professor Stephen Voss, who was plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay, said it was no big deal. It was even expected she would use his work without attribution? He seems to think so. “It would have been quite natural for her to borrow ideas from ...
Resilience: Debunking The Debunker
Sarah Green Carmichael, in a Bloomberg News item titled “You don’t need more resilience, you need friends, and money” debunks the business gurus who tell us all resilience comes from inside us. Sarah’s thesis is that our environments determine our resilience, or at least can shield us from ...
Statistical Methods For Fundamental Science Course Starts Tomorrow
From tomorrow onwards (once or twice a week until February 5), I will be giving an online course on the topic of "Statistical Methods for Fundamental Science" for the INSTATS organization. This is a 5-day, 15-hour set of lectures that I put together to suit the needs of students and researchers ...
There’s DEI, And Then There’s DEI
A job interview, some years back, at No Name University (NNU). I was the candidate. The diversity question, pitched right on schedule. The surprise was who asked it. Of the seven search committee members (plus the search firm rep) only one was a person of color, and guess who they stuck with asking ...
The online discourse of our time has come to the issue of plagiarism. Now Claudine Gay and Neri... more »
This plant above is what is regarded as a typical fern. However, a quite different looking type... more »
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