Idag finns inga vetenskapliga bevis för att 5G skulle vara farligt för hälsan. Trots det florerar påståenden om att 5G skulle öka risken för hjärntumörer och orsaka minnessvårigheter.
Looks like Libras terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week isnt over yet. In addition to major backers like PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard dropping support for Facebooks cryptocurrency …
Under 2019 har Föreningen Vetenskap och Folkbildning fått förtroendet att fungera som remissinstans inför ny lagstiftning rörande "Komplementär och alternativ medicin och vård – säkerhet, kunskap och dialog" (SOU 2019:15) och "Komplementär och alternativ medicin och vård – ny lagstiftning" (SOU 2019:28). Vi är i grunden positiva till utredningen 2019:15 och dess slutbetänkande 2019:28. Här […] Th
Uber isn't the only one suing New York City to demand looser rules for ridesharing drivers. Lyft has sued NYC in a bid to end a rule that limits the amount of time drivers can …
People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution.
People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientists have created a new layered superconducting material with a conducting layer made of bismuth, silver, tin, sulfur and selenium. The conducting layer features four distinct sublayers; by introducing more elements, they were able to achieve unparalleled customizability and a higher "critical temperature" below which superconductivity is observed, a key objective of superconductor researc
Researchers in Australia used a driving simulator to test patients' vision before and after cataract surgery. They found that near misses and crashes decreased by 48% after surgery.
A drug widely prescribed for a bladder condition for decades, now appears to be toxic to the retina, the light sensing tissue at the back of the eye that allows us to see.
Activists block trade at Billingsgate fish market and target headquarters of energy company Shell to 'raise awareness' Climate protesters on Saturday intensified efforts to disrupt life in London, and targeted sites including Billingsgate fish market and Shell's headquarters. They said police took at least 28 of their supporters into custody. That number means that more than 1,200 Extinction Rebe
Power shutdowns intended to prevent more devastating California wildfires are raising new concerns about another longstanding environmental threat: air pollution.
Gusting winds fueling a fast-moving wildfire in southern California showed no signs of abating Saturday as a blaze that forced the evacuation of some 100,000 people kept burning out of control.
Perhaps you saw the headlines back in 2014, ones like "Science Proves It: Men Really Do Find High Heels Sexier," from TIME. Or maybe this quote, from the author of a study in Archives of Sexual Behavior, on CNBC: "Women's shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men's behavior," says the study's author, Nicolas … Continue reading
To keep global heating below 2°C , the world's appetite for meat must change. This will mean reducing meat consumption in most developed countries and limiting the increase in developing countries. But how do you convince people to break the habit of a lifetime? Our recent paper , published in the journal Appetite, looked at how "nudging" might help. This is an approach from behavioural psycholog
Researchers in Australia used a driving simulator to test patients' vision before and after cataract surgery. They found that near misses and crashes decreased by 48% after surgery.
A drug widely prescribed for a bladder condition for decades, now appears to be toxic to the retina, the light sensing tissue at the back of the eye that allows us to see.
Forskare har hittat två typer av plastätande bakterier utanför New Delhi i Indien. Nu hoppas man att fyndet kan leda till lösningen på ett av vår tids stora miljöproblem.
Let's say that on average you are in better shape than other people of your age. You are more able than them: quicker, sprightlier, livelier. You feel and identify as younger than your official age. However, despite all your youthful energy, you are also discriminated against because of your greater age. You cannot get a job – or, if you do, you might earn less than some of your younger coworkers
If Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity holds true, then a black hole, born from the cosmically quaking collisions of two massive black holes, should itself "ring" in the aftermath, producing gravitational waves much like a struck bell reverberates sound waves. Einstein predicted that the particular pitch and decay of these gravitational waves should be a direct signature of the newly f
One person's trash can be another's treasure — and trash from teens might be the foundation for insightful new medical research. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the details of a "garbology" study conducted by a pair of University of California, San Francisco, researchers in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report . Over a period of about eight months, the r
I burnt out as a GP but in mental health I could take time with patients and, at last, make a difference "If you're going to reject me, then reject me," I said. I was deep in the bowels of Leicester University, being interviewed for a place at medical school. I was 35, a fact the learned professor interviewing me returned to again and again. How would I cope with the workload? Would the four hour
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE How to Stop Superhuman AI Before It Stops Us Stuart Russell | The New York Times "Once the focus shifts from building machines that are 'intelligent' to ones that are 'beneficial,' controlling them will become a far easier feat. Consider it the difference between nuclear power and nuclear explosions: a nuclear explosion is nuclear power in an uncontrolled form, and we grea
Crumbling Crypto Facebook's plans to establish Libra, its cryptocurrency , is falling apart in real time. After facing major backlash from governments around the world, many of the 28 original corporate backers jumped ship. Partners were meant to help Facebook build a powerful network and help spread Libra around the world. But last week, PayPal withdraw from the Libra Association, the body that
After speeding through Debbie Harry's eventful life in just 245 pages, the Blondie singer's memoir, Face It , in its final chapter, lists stuff about thumbs. "I think first of that game where you try to trap the other guy's thumb under yours while the rest of your fingers are gripping their fingers," the 74-year-old Harry writes. "Then there is the old saying 'I'm all thumbs,' which is a peculiar
O ne night not long ago, with my 3-year-old son finally asleep and my wife wisely heading to bed, I settled onto the couch, beer in hand, to catch some baseball. Well, not really baseball. I opened my laptop, navigated to breakers.tv, and prepared to watch a pair of rubber-gloved hands in East Wenatchee, Washington, open an entire case of baseball cards—more than 4,000 cards in all. If that sound
Just about everything we do in society depends in part on research by the federal government. Congress can and must protect scientific integrity with legislation — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Eagle-eyed Twitter user TUM_APISAK spotted a new submission to the SiSoftware benchmark database that appears to show some performance details of Intel's upcoming Comet Lake Core i3-10100. The …
None I don't even know where to begin with this one. You've probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they're a company that did some nefarious things involving facebook and the 2016 US presidential elections. If you're anything like me, you don't know the half of it. If you get through this episode without wanting to move to a remote hut in the Arctic circle, I will personally refund
The issue of gay rights and recognition and acceptance of the LGBTQ community has moved at warp speed—in political terms anyway—this past decade. "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage," said the candidate Barack Obama in 2008. At Thursday night's nationally televised forum on LGBTQ rights, candidate Beto O'Rourke showed how far, and how quickly, the D
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 university's findings that dozens of papers by a famous … Continue reading
Isotope found in seabed sediment points to clash of solar bodies near Mars, study suggests Astronomers have discovered intriguing evidence that an asteroid break-up blanketed Earth with dust millions of years ago. The event dramatically cooled the planet and triggered an ice age that was followed by major increases in numbers of new animal species. The work, led by Birger Schmitz of Lund Universit
In an experiment designed to test whether a tool forged by the cold from human waste could be used to kill a dog, surely the frozen implements created in the lab ought to have been tested on the skin of a dog. Photograph by K.H.Trudeau / Shutterstock When, some weeks ago, I was first contacted by an online scientific publication asking me to review a submission on the subject of "shit knives", I
The moment was immortalized in a one-minute clip on CNN : 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrived at her campaign's Election Night watch party, caught a glimpse of the results on a nearby TV screen, and clasped her hand over her Stila-painted lips . "Oh my God." Ocasio-Cortez had just learned she'd defeated incumbent Representative Joe Crowley of New York—the "Queens Machine" and possible fu
Earlier this week, Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents to mitigate the risk of fires. The city of Berkeley put out some vital information for those who might be affected: "If you are power-dependent for medical reasons and in a potential shutoff area, please use your own resources to relocate to an unaffected area," the city said . "If unable to relocat
Using 10 years of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the team of astronomers concluded that there is more gas coming into our galaxy than leaving it.
In this awe-inspiring short documentary, Michael Malone, author of The Intel Trinity , traces the history of Silicon Valley technology, starting with the integrated circuit, invented by Intel co-founder Robert Noyce. Ever wondered how Moore's Law came about, and who it's named after? Gordon Moore, Intel's other founder and the law's namesake, explains the remarkable growth and improvements to qua
On August 19, the definition of a company in America changed. The Business Roundtable, a U.S. lobbying group that represents nearly 200 companies, issued a statement proclaiming that the "purpose" of a business in 2019 was no longer to look out merely for shareholders. It was to protect the interests of all "stakeholders"—employees, partners, suppliers, communities, the environment, the very worl
"I think you do a very dirty job in Europe," Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French philosopher and author, told Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, during their debate yesterday at the Athens Democracy Forum. "All these movements which you are trying to help, they are not so happy with it." The debate, moderated by the New York Times journalist Roger Cohen, is among several appearance
Barsebäcks gode start hænger sammen med, at man har kunnet trække på erfaringer fra det næsten identiske kernekraftværk i Oskarshamn, fortalte driftschefen, da 27 medlemmer af Dansk Kerneteknisk Selskab i 1976 blev vist rundt på værket.
Wind-driven wildfires forced the evacuation of about 100,000 people in southern California Friday and destroyed dozens of structures and homes as authorities warned it could take days to extinguish the flames.
Millions of people lost electricity this week in California as the state's utility giant PG&E sought to prevent catastrophic wildfires, leading many to question whether such power shutoffs will become the new normal.
Aged almost 17 years, Bonane is an eastern lowland gorilla, a survivor in a critically endangered species reduced to about 250 members in DR Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
Aged almost 17 years, Bonane is an eastern lowland gorilla, a survivor in a critically endangered species reduced to about 250 members in DR Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall and passed over the capital, where streets, nearby beaches and train stations were long deserted.
Satellite data has confirmed the formation of Subtropical Storm Melissa. NASA's Terra Satellite provided a visible image the former Nor'easter turned subtropical storm off the coast of New England.
Hydrologic models that simulate and predict water flow are used to estimate how natural systems respond to different scenarios such as changes in climate, land use, and soil management. The output from these models can inform policy and regulatory decisions regarding water and land management practices.
Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star formation.
Australia's northern coast is a case study on the impacts of a warming planet. Small-town leaders there are struggling with constituents who doubt reality.
Tre københavnske forstadskommuner appellerer til regeringen om at sænke hastigheden på 11 km motorvej på grund af støjgener. Det fik læserne på ing.dk på banen i en debat om støj, trafik og boligområder.
What I mean is, it's exciting Robots will take over the mind numbing jobs, jobs that the rest of us become extremely depressed over because it's so horridly mind numbing. I mean there are SOOOO many mind numbing jobs out there that Robots taking over will be a blessing. No longer will we have to slave away at mind numbing activities! Having mind numbing, soul sucking jobs causes depression. It ca
Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new layered superconducting material with a conducting layer made of bismuth, silver, tin, sulfur and selenium. The conducting layer features four distinct sublayers; by introducing more elements, they were able to achieve unparalleled customizability and a higher "critical temperature" below which superconductivity is obs
Skelettet har inte endast en stödjande och skyddande funktion i kroppen. Den kan även bilda ett hormon som en reaktion på stressiga eller hotfulla situationer, visar ny forskning.
At rally in Denver, Swedish activist again scolds leaders for ignoring science Young people must be prepared to strike for a long time for action on climate change and not back down, the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has told a rally in Denver. Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists would not beg those in power to act because she expected leaders to keep ignoring them. Continue re
Three cases of disease have emerged south of its usual catchment area in far-north Queensland The spread of a severe tissue-destroying ulcer once rare in Australia to a new geographic area in Queensland has infectious disease experts worried. The Buruli ulcer, also known as the Bairnsdale ulcer or Daintree ulcer, is an infection that eventually leads to an eruption of painful skin ulcers that fai
Weird title, I know. I really got into futuology at the beginning of the decade. Consumer drones, digital-assistants, and 3d printing were the cutting edge stuff on the horizon. Now they're commonplace. As the decade draws to a close what technology and concepts are just on the horizon, and will probably be commonplace this time, in 10 years? submitted by /u/XGPfresh [link] [comments]
It is highly intriguing how bacterial pathogens can quickly shut down energy-costly infection machinery once successful infection is established. This study depicts that mutation of repressor SghR increases the expression of hydrolase SghA in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which releases plant defense signal salicylic acid (SA) from its storage form SA β-glucoside…
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Bladet bringer aktuelle, spændende forskningsnyheder inden for biologi, medicin og andre naturvidenskabelige områder som f.eks. klimaændringer, nanoteknologi, partikelfysik, astronomi, seksualitet, biologiske våben, ecstasy, evolutionsbiologi, kloning, fedme, søvnforskning, muligheden for liv på mars, influenzaepidemier, livets opståen osv.
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