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Formaldehyde: The Carcinogen That Wasn’t
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There Could Be 6 Billion Planets Like Ours In Just This Galaxy
How big is the universe? No one really knows, but since we are in just one Orion spur of the arm of Sagittarius in one galaxy, and there are an unknown number of galaxies, it's big. So big our galaxy alone could have 6,000,000,000 planets like ours, according to a new estimate.To be a potential ...
A Sun Clock For 2020 - It Can Predict Solar Cycle Activity With Surprising Precision
The math used to analyze cyclic phenomena like the ebb and flow of ocean tides has been applied to Sol, the star we orbit. While it can't do anything to flatten its irregularities, or the impacts it has on communications, temperature, and weather, the "Sun clock" created by scholars shows it starts ...
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Dark Energy, And Cosmic Expansion
A new paper uses a combination of cosmic voids – large expanding bubbles of space containing very few galaxies – and the faint imprint of sound waves in the very early Universe, known as baryon acoustic oscillations, that can be seen in the distribution of galaxies, to show how large structures ...
The Purell Of The Future May Be A Handheld UV Light Device
Though "energy medicine" and "oxygenated herbs" promoted by CNN's Chris Cuomo are woo, one notion ridiculed by journalists has merit; using light to disinfect areas and kill coronavirus.Though chemicals are most common, they are not always practical or portable. Ultraviolet radiation in the 200 ...
Batrachopus Grandis: Crocodille Ancestor Walked On Two Feet
Well-preserved footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation of South Korea, 110 million years ago, show that an ancestor of modern-day crocodiles, named Batrachopus grandis, walked on two feet.Palaeontologists knew that some crocodiles from the "age of dinosaurs" were more adapted ...
American Agriculture Got Us Through Coronavirus, Why Are Academic Activists Still So Down On Farming?
In November of 2019 The Atlantic asked "experts" what they would change if they could go back in time. The experts had titles like "mythographer" - no scientists invited - so it's no surprise only one response had real-world relevance.(1) A historian at Rutgers wished agriculture had never been ...
Some Good News: Yellowstone Won't Blow Up This Year
From Australian wildfires to COVID-19 to murder hornets to race wars in Manhattan, 2020 looks to be a challenging year. It could still get worse, but science shows it won't be due to Yellowstone blowing its top. Yellowstone is one of those scenarios doomsday "preppers" worry about. They are ...
Cover Crops Lead To Better Decomposition Rates And Increased Mineralization
Cover crops are touted for their soil and water quality related benefits. A new paper found that incorporating cover crops with tillage results in increased cover crop decomposition rates and increased mineralization of nutrients from cover crop biomass.
Other studies have reported mixed results ...
QIH: Mice Don't Hibernate, But Now They Can - And What That May Mean For Human Space Travel
Humans do not hibernate, but in science-fiction films long-distance travel often involves "suspended animation" where muscular atrophy, starvation, and oxygen deprivation don't occur. Mice don't hibernate either but they just did in experiments. Mice are obviously not little people, that ...
Coronavirus Risks In Public Bathrooms
Most public restrooms are grungy in the best of times. Now, we have the coronavirus risk to contend with, too. There are lots of risks – dirty sinks and door handles, airborne particles and other people in small, enclosed spaces who may or may not be breathing out the coronavirus.So, how do you ...
FMRI Images Are Just Pretty Pictures
Ten years ago science journalists talked about functional MRI (fMRI) scans all of the time. Because if a part of the brain lit up when someone did, said, or read something, it went into a paper. Few asked who was doing the interpreting, how legitimate the scale was, and if it had any scientific ...
New Flu? Coronavirus Might Become Cause Of A Seasonal Illness
The flu kills over 600,000 people each year and in 2020 another virus exploded in public health circles for the third time in 17 years; coronavirus.SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, has killed nearly 400,000, and given the risk factors it is hard to say how many would have been killed ...
One Hydroxychloroquine A Day Does Not Keep The Doctor Away
As the search for an effective COVID19 treatment goes on, one therapy keeps re-appearing in the headlines: hydroxychloroquine. Early, observational studies on the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID19 failed to show any real benefits of the drug. The ability of hydroxychloroquine ...
The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Failure Of Hydroxychloroquine As A COVID-19 Treatment And The Science That Explains It
The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, touted as a miracle cure for COVID-19, appeared to have had it’s Titanic moment, at least according to a study published in the Lancet. The retrospective study analyzed the records of patients from 6 continents and found that not only was hydroxychloroquine ...
Good News For Menopausal Women Taking Hop Supplements: They Don't Do Anything Bad
Some menopausal women experience night sweats and hot flashes. Hormone replacement therapy is the standard of care for menopausal patients, but not all women are good candidates for it and then some simply don't trust science and medicine; they buy organic food, worry about cellphone radiation ...
WHO [May 13th]: Eradicating COVID-19 With A Safe And Effective Vaccine Would Be A Beacon Of Hope For The Future Of Our Planet
The WHO have been hugely misreported by the media. Mike Ryan said that if we develop a safe and effective vaccine for COVID19 we also have to deploy it. We can do this. If we vaccinate enough people to eradicate this virus, it is a "beacon of hope" for the way we care about our world citizens ...
At 13,500 Years Old, This Songbird Is The Oldest Known Figurine
(Inside Science) - An ancient bird statuette recovered from a refuse heap is the oldest known figurine discovered yet in China, shedding new light on how our ancestors created 3D art, a new study finds.Scientists unearthed the miniature carving at the site of Lingjing in China, where previous excavations ...
Do No Harm? Doctors Are Giving Out 9X As Many Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions, And That Puts People Who Need It At Risk
The antimalarial drug chloroquine (analogue hydroxychloroquine) is also successfully used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune diseases said to have similar biological mechanisms as COVID-19 and, lacking any remedies besides what can be done for the flu, in March the U.S. Food and ...
Coronavirus Coverage Has Caused People To Stop Using Corporate News
When the coronavirus pandemic really started to take hold in the UK in March, news consumption increased, as in many other countries. But, since then, our research shows that an increasing share of the UK population is switching off from the news. The proportion of people who say they often or ...
Workplace Wellness Programs Don't Do Anything Except Make Wellness Companies Wealthy
A new study has found that even when it comes to something as broad as "wellness" such wellness programs have little recognizable impact on employee health, health beliefs, or medical utilization.All things they were supposed to improve. Because wellness programs were given government legitimacy ...
Government Is Watching You, And That Amplifies Police Bias And Overreach
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social media feeds. Meanwhile, police surveillance of protesters has remained largely out of sight. Local, state and federal law enforcement ...
Epidemiologists Advocate For Warning Labels On Soda - And Hope California Will Notice
A team of epidemiologists who correlate specific types of calories, rather than simply too many calories, to obesity have written a new paper advocating for cigarette-style warning labels on soda. During the COVID-19 pandemic, disease epidemiologists were concerned that the public did not ...
Robot Cockroaches Are All We Need To Make 2020 Just Peachy
2020 started out being a weird and devastating way to end the decade yet we naively thought those Australian wildfires were as bad as it could get.Now people outside that country barely remember they happened. Because then we got coronavirus. Luckily, we dodged the murder hornets but then went ...
Business Insider Takes A Trip Down 2019 Chemophobia Lane
Thanks to COVID-19, the public has gotten a lot more skeptical about claims that chemicals, food, and medicine are corporate conspiracies created to replace natural products that worked just fine. Even more ridiculous has been the belief that millions and millions of people are dying from these ...
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