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KAIST identifies cause of artifacts in battery nanoscale analysis, paving the way for more reliable measurements
Why Understanding the Human Condition Remains One of Science’s Great Challenges
Science has explained an extraordinary amount about the world around us. But one of its most elusive subjects remains remarkably close to home: ourselves. What made humans the way we are? How did we acquire our extraordinary capacities for consciousness, cooperation, language and culture?
Damon Isherwood Sun, 09/06/2026 - 21:12 Categories PsychologyEpidemiology: Microplastics Cause Lung Cancer
Unless you are a cigarette smoker, you can't be 'inhaling' enough polypropylene and polyethylene to impact your lungs even if you live for 7,000 years. That doesn't stop fad claims that microplastics cause lung cancer.
Hank Campbell Sun, 09/06/2026 - 06:29 Categories ChemistryOrigins of COPD may lie in how some children’s lungs develop, but only when they are exposed to polluted air
Your Smartphone May Be Off On Your Exercise Calories By 25%
Sorry, Apple. Sorry, Fitbit. You're overcounting calories burned and science shows it.
Hank Campbell Sat, 09/05/2026 - 13:28 Categories TechnologyMicroplastics may act as pollutant shuttles, carrying chemicals, pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes
Slow pyrolysis could turn heavy metal contaminated crops into useful carbon materials
How new moms cope with stressful news may matter more than the news itself, study finds
Sharpening minds in the community: Attention emerges as a key responsive outcome in municipal dementia prevention
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer found to have more microplastic in their lungs
How the developing human brain takes instructions: Two UCLA studies reveal what guides its most important stem cells
When A Bump Gets Greedy: A Connection I Had Missed For 25 Years
Back in 2009 I wrote in this blog a rather technical post about something I had called the “greedy bump bias.” (GBB) The effect I referred to had emerged from a 2003 CDF study of mine, where I considered the extraction of small signals sitting on top of much larger backgrounds.That work went unpublished, but then I took revenge with the blog post...
Tommaso Dorigo Thu, 09/03/2026 - 09:15 Categories Physics