A new study aims to provide healthy couples who have a child affected by a developmental disorder with a personalised pre-conception risk evaluation, in order to determine the likelihood of a future child being affected by the same condition.
A short history of the universe since the time of the Big Bang. We can directly observe more than 13 billion years of change, but the beginning itself is an enduring mystery. (Credit: ESA) The Big Bang is the defining narrative of modern cosmology: a bold declaration that our universe had a beginning and has a finite age, just like the humans who live within it. That finite age, in turn, is define
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sun, Jun 9 through Sat, June 15, 2019 Editor's Pick Costa Rica Doubled Its Forest Cover In Just 30 Years! Costa Rica has a long-standing commitment to the environment. The country is now one of the leading nations of sustainability , biodiversity, and other protections. The country's
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeffrey Kiehl Life makes us wake up to needed changes. A visit to the doctor's office and accompanied tests indicate you have been diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Your doctor indicates two pathways to addressing the condition before things get worse. You can change your lifestyle, or you can take medication with possible side effects. If you accept th
The United States Cyber Command has made a number of incursions into Russias electrical infrastructure in recent months, according to a new report in The New York Times. Officials …
On this date 11 years ago, which was Father's Day in 2008, I posted a tribute to my own father, who was then in the final months of his extraordinary life . I'm mentioning it again this weekend, after Deb's and my own sons have shown themselves to be wonderful fathers, both as a holiday-themed observance and because a document I linked to in the original post has vanished from its online home. Th
Some extra advice: Let them confirm your identity first. (Uber/) Uber and Lyft have helped transform the way we get around via cab, and have even put the idea of car ownership to the test in certain places. These apps have become popular, in part, to their simplicity and ease of use—just tap to ride—but even though almost everyone has them installed, not everyone will have dug deeply into all the
The National Audubon Society is getting involved in a lawsuit over the future of a national monument in the ocean off New England because of the area's importance to seabirds, especially colorfully beaked puffins.
The National Audubon Society is getting involved in a lawsuit over the future of a national monument in the ocean off New England because of the area's importance to seabirds, especially colorfully beaked puffins.
HONG KONG —Call it a victory for Hong Kong's protesters. But the battle is far from over. Hours after reportedly having met with a senior Chinese official, a stern-faced Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's Beijing-friendly chief executive, announced that her government would temporarily suspend plans to push through a law that would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to mainland China. Her speech cap
A dugong calf that developed an attachment to humans after being separated from its mother and found off southern Thailand is being nurtured by marine experts in …
If you've ever gone through the comments on a public Facebook post, it can sometimes feel like it is the perfect example of everything wrong about the internet and social media these …
The Victorian grasslands earless dragon hasn't been observed for 50 years, but conservationists haven't given up hope yet — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Victorian grasslands earless dragon hasn't been observed for 50 years, but conservationists haven't given up hope yet — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Amazon Spark, the e-commerce giant's social network, has seemingly shut down after only a couple of years. If you don't even know what it is, we don't blame you. You …
In 2015, the scientist's husband was almost killed by an antibiotic-resistant superbug, until she found a cure that is now saving others Infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee's husband survived a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection thanks to her suggestion of using an unconventional cure popular in the former Soviet Union: fighting the bug with a virus. Now the global h
I thought I couldn't sing. Then I discovered there's no such thing as 'tone deaf' – and that singing is not very different to speaking It's lunchtime on a sunny day in early June. I'm standing on London's Fleet Street outside an imposing door that's sandwiched between a solicitor's office and Ye Olde Cock Tavern. I feel nervous and sticky-palmed. A message pings into my phone. It's from my 17-yea
A mockup of the Apollo Guidance Computer that navigated Apollo's way to the Moon. MIT Library. Driving, say, to a friend's house, we usually have directions to follow like "turn left at the light then it's the third door on the right." The same isn't true when going to the Moon; there are no signposts guiding the way. So how exactly did Apollo astronauts know where they were going when they went t
We watch long YouTube videos so you don't have to . In the seemingly endless deliberations on whether there should be a 'red team' exercise to review various climate science reports, Scott Waldman reported last week that the original architect of the idea, Steve Koonin, had given a talk on touching on the topic at Purdue University in Indiana last month. Since the talk is online , I thought it mi
Like Spinal Tap, Elizabeth Gilbert goes to 11 . Whether it's the depths of her despair in Eat, Pray, Love, the intensity of her research in her fiction, or the openness with which she shares her life— romantic and otherwise —with her rabid fans, she lives in bold. Gilbert has something of a two-track career toggling between carefully crafted fiction and confessional creative essays . The latter,
HEALTH Laser Destroys Cancer Cells Circulating in the Blood Emily Waltz | IEEE Spectrum "Tumor cells that spread cancer via the bloodstream face a new foe: a laser beam, shined from outside the skin, that finds and kills these metastatic little demons on the spot." ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Bill Gates Just Backed a Chip Startup That Uses Light to Turbocharge AI Martin Giles | MIT Technology Review
Before we present this week's Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured a big announcement: You can now receive alerts about retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: How much is integrity wor
A new analysis suggests that our galaxy may have collided with another recently discovered dwarf galaxy called Antlia 2. The post The Milky Way May Have Already Collided With Another Galaxy appeared first on ExtremeTech .
When you were young you took me out one night to where you had been sugaring, and we toasted with our cups of snow, over which the amber sweetness of trees had been poured. Each spring now I check the taps, since you have moved away. Maybe it's the sleight of hand of age, but each year the sap sluices, it seems, later and later, too cold to run. Another week, I tell myself. If you have the secret
En af de nye ingeniørbøger i Ingeniørens digitale arkiv er Raastoffernes Mobilisering fra 1942, hvor man bl.a. kan læse om, de fuldt syntetiske spindestoffer, der netop var kommet frem i USA. Den komplicerede fremstillingsproces gav til gengæld nylonstrømper en langt bedre styrke og modstandsdygt…
A group called Xenotime, which began by targeting oil and gas facilities in the Middle East, now has electrical utilities in the US and Asia in its sights.
"What I'm interested in is deep, systematic change. What I understand now is that real change doesn't happen until change on the inside begins to happen." "Masculinity is not inherently toxic. Patriarchy is toxic. We have to let that energy go so we can stop forcing other people to do emotional labor for us." None Like Mick Jagger, the Indian prince we know as The Buddha taught that we can't get
Advisory panel says US National Institutes of Health should treat sexual harassment more seriously and do more to help affected researchers — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
It's hard to make crêpe batter spread evenly before it cooks, but an analysis of the physics involved says a tilt and swirl of the pan gives the perfect pancake
When Republicans voted on impeachment more than 20 years ago, Nancy Pelosi was right there on the House floor, watching as the GOP plunged headfirst into the process without broad public support or the clear prospect of conviction in the Senate. For many establishment Democrats of a certain age—say, those who are now eligible for Medicare—the lesson from that time is clear: Impeaching Bill Clinto
New UK research predicts extremes of weather will hit food production Global heating could bring many more bouts of severe drought as well as increased flooding to Africa than previously forecast, scientists have warned. New research says the continent will experience many extreme outbreaks of intense rainfall over the next 80 years. These could trigger devastating floods, storms and disruption of
The writer Jon Ronson once observed that every day in the social-media era, "a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping." In Ronson's 2015 book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed , his subjects found themselves beset by angry detractors for, say, an insensitive Twitter joke or Facebook photo. They lost jobs, received threats, even pondered suicide. And
Since the explosion of the knowledge economy in the 1990s, generalist inventors have been making larger and more important contributions than specialists. One theory is that the rise of rapid communication technologies allowed the information created by specialists to be rapidly disseminated, meaning generalists can combine information across disciplines to invent something new. Here, David Epste
PLUS. Man må tænke kreativt, når gamle stolpehuller er en af de vigtigste rettesnore, og materialerne er tæt på uopdrivelige. Det gjorde de på Stenaldercenter Ertebølle.
One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than Switzerland where thousands of the animals have been slaughtered in recent years.
One of Africa's largest wildlife preserves is marking a year without a single elephant found killed by poachers, which experts call an extraordinary development in an area larger than Switzerland where thousands of the animals have been slaughtered in recent years.
A study out of Clemson University has demonstrated that inexpensive, easy-to-use temperature controllers are able to provide reliable set temperatures for the detailed observation of developmental rates in response to different temperature treatments.
A study out of Indiana and Purdue Universities sought to gain a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high tunnels for specialty crops in Indiana.
A study out of Clemson University has demonstrated that inexpensive, easy-to-use temperature controllers are able to provide reliable set temperatures for the detailed observation of developmental rates in response to different temperature treatments.
A study out of Indiana and Purdue Universities sought to gain a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high tunnels for specialty crops in Indiana.
John Stommel of the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) has investigated the desirability for, and practicality of, producing snack peppers, both sweet and hot, with low seed count.
The United Auto Workers union has suffered a fresh defeat at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, with workers narrowly voting down a move to organize the factory for a second time.
John Stommel of the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS) has investigated the desirability for, and practicality of, producing snack peppers, both sweet and hot, with low seed count.
Humans have been smoking pot to get high since the first millennium B.C. Archaeologists have found early evidence of cannabis use from wooden bowls exhumed from ancient tombs in western China. (Image credit: Xinhua Wu/Science Advances)
To danske forskere kommer i tidsskriftet Nature Energy med en række anbefalinger til kolleger inden for forskning i spaltning af vand. Ingeniørens omtale af artiklen blev ugens mest debatterede på ing.dk – og ikke alle så problemerne i brintproduktion på samme måde.
When Federico Batini, an Italian academic, wanted to research classroom bullying, he distributed a questionnaire to 54 schools in central Italy. The survey was carried out in partnership with local education authorities and sought to explore the extent to which young people faced racial, homophobic, or gender-based discrimination from their peers. But instead of learning more about students' expe
In decades to come we must rethink our agriculture, our love of consumption and our short-termist priorities. It won't be easy The case for action to tackle the climate emergency, on a scale far beyond anything that has yet been attempted, is increasingly widely understood. Almost three decades after the first UN climate treaty was agreed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and despite the commitments thr
Dagens robotar brukar förlita sig på kameraögon när de ska greppa ett okänt föremål. De är ganska fumliga. En ny handske ska göra dem bättre på att känna igen saker med händerna.
Brus eller klara toner verkar kvitta för en apa. Hjärnan hos en makak reagerar ungefär likadant i båda fallen. Den mänskliga hjärnan är annorlunda – vilket forskare kopplar till vår unika förmåga att uppfatta musik och tal.
The Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia is a critical source of lithium. (Diego Delso/) Some environmentalist often imagine a future where electric cars put oil companies out of business. Firms would stop injecting known carcinogens into the ground to break up the layer of hard, shale rock hiding stores of fuel, and they would no longer plumb the ocean depths for oil, letting sticky black goo leak into th
The entorhinal cortex (EC) conveys spatial, limbic, and sensory information to the hippocampus, which performs critical brain functions, including learning and memory processes and spatial information coding. Axons from superficial [layer (L)2] EC neurons make excitatory synapses onto granule cells (GCs) of the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG), which prepare the…
The history of life and environmental change on Earth is told largely by physical and chemical indicators hosted within the sedimentary rock record. Barite (BaSO4) is one of the few minerals that is known to crystallize from seawater, and due to its relatively high chemical resiliency in nature, its trace…
The immune system sustains a continuous dialogue with the endogenous microbial communities residing at the mucosal surfaces, mediated by many factors, including IgA, the most abundant antibody isotype. In PNAS, Xiong et al. (1) explore the role of a B cell-specific factor in regulation of IgA secretion in the gut….
Social media has done a lot of good in the world but there are still many groups of people that are unsatisfied with the experience of it. They're particularly unsatisfied with the experience of mainstream social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and its derivatives, YouTube and Reddit (yes, I do count Reddit in this group). How do you think this will evolve social media
You just woke up with a massive headache, fever, gut hurting that turns to vomiting and diarrhea, yeah! If you could contact an AI doctor online and have your computer set up so it can take your blood pressure, temp, heart rate and collect your photo scan to see other symptoms that would be interpreted by an AI doctor would you use and trust it? Could just be the flu, or food poisoning, appen
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