Science 2.0

Boys Are More Demanding Than Girls Even Before Birth - In Mouse Pregnancies
The authors speculate it may be because boys grow faster in the womb, needing more energy and nutrients from the mother through the placenta but after around 100 billion childbirths in human history that doesn't add up. Maybe it is the case in mice, and that is the caveat with the study. Mice are not little people, though you wouldn't know that from claims made by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC.)
If Droughts Are Predictable Because They Self-Propagate, Not Planning For Them Is Irresponsible
The Dry 2 Dry program at Ghent University believes droughts are not only predictable and cyclical, they can propagate in a kind of feedback loop; instead of being local, evaporated water is moved to other areas, so less of it is taking drought with them.
Learning To Discover
Below you can see a summary of the event agenda:
- Apr 19-20 Representation learning workshop
- Apr 21-22 Dealing with uncertainties workshop
- Apr 25-26 Generative models workshop
- Apr 27-29 AI and Physics Conference
After 3 Years Of Maintenance, The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Back Into Collision Shape
The work was done so that it can operate at an even higher energy and deliver significantly more data to the upgraded LHC experiments but high-energy collisions still months away. The beams circulated today were a test at injection energy and contained a small number of protons.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Created a New Addiction: Maskaholics
Wait, aren't the Republicans the ones who don't trust vaccines? Only for the last year, and only for political reasons. California, which once had more vaccine deniers than the entire rest of the US combined, suddenly claimed to be pro-vaccine. Except weird places like San Francisco told people they needed four shots. And to wear masks outside.
That is not pro-science, it means you don't trust it at all. Just as always.
Will The Ukraine War Bring The World A New Chocolate Pilot?
After defeat, Germany had been divided into four sectors, controlled by America, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union and three of those sectors 'united' so that there could be a common currency, a new German mark, and goods supplied by the US under the Marshall Plan would bring stability. But the former capital, Berlin, was in the USSR sector, and the USSR wanted its section of Germany to be Soviet, and communism.
The Biden Administration Continues To Engage In Behavior Not Justified While Claiming Science Is On Their Side
The White House hoped to stretch "Chevron deference", a flawed Supreme Court interpretation which found that government agencies could create rules that act like laws without needing Congress as long as it was in their regulatory mandate, beyond recognition.
The Alternative Meat Industry Wants Solar Power Style Mandates And Subsidies
They want more but oddly lament that most of their money comes from the private sector. They want the trillions of dollars in subsidies that solar and wind have gotten, claiming it will fight climate change. That's a big problem.
Stumbling Toward The Metaverse
Many are the sci-fi encounters with races that have transcended their physical bodies, having moved on to dwell on some energetic or spiritual plane. The tales skip the backstories, so we wonder: Did these aliens get where they are via Darwinian evolution? Did they get disgusted with the physical world and devise a technological means of transitioning? Do their planets of origin still exist, or were they destroyed? Always in sci-fi, we are given to assume that these aliens enjoy their non-material existence and don’t miss the meat world.
Lockdowns Doubled Mental Health Issues
During the almost two years of on-again off-again COVID lockdowns, we heard lots of concern from many different corners about the mental health effects of forcing people to stay home and keep away from friends and family.
Many research projects were undertaken to attempt to measure the scale of the impacts on mental health.
However, the speed with which research was generated meant in some cases, research quality was sacrificed, and some research found evidence of an effect on mental health, and some didn’t.
To make sense of the very mixed findings, my colleagues and I conducted a review of all of the studies on mental health conducted during the first year of the pandemic.
Solar's On Demand Problem May Get Solved - And May Allow Solar Energy To Be Shipped Worldwide
The solar energy system MOST – Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems is starting small but the concept of a specially designed molecule that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight scaled to operational sizes might mean real solar farms in remote places that provide electricity as well as conventional energy.
Coral Reefs Recover Quickly After Bleaching Due To Water Temperature Changes
In 2018, two years after the government protected Chagos Archipelago underwent bleaching, the reef coral cover and carbonate production were down by more than 70 percent. Yet by last year, they were found to have rebounded nicely.
The World's Rice Bowl Is Suffering With Lower Yields - Here Is How Science Is Helping
Is The CDF W Mass Measurement A Nail In The SM Coffin?
... Ok, ok, I will elaborate. But first I feel the need to explain what we are talking about here, to anybody who does not have a Ph.D. in particle physics and is still reading this column.
Background: The Tevatron, CDF, and the W boson
The Next Pollution Target Is Your Dryer Lint - Fabric Softener To The Rescue?
Microfibers? Is that a thing? Sure, we have defined healthy down to such an extent that no one is without a disease of some kind. With endocrine disrupting chemicals, small micron particulate matter, and supermarket food it is amazing any of us live more than a day.
But is it really meaningful? As with Micronauts, it sounds like something that might be the science equivalent of an MCU show but on closer examination is really more like Hasbro latching onto a fad.
The Biden Administration Agreed Courts Could Not Block A Trump Water Rule - Then Wanted SCOTUS To Side Against It Anyway
Sports And School: Physically Fit Pupils Feel And Can Concentrate Better
California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order Law Didn't Reduce Gun Violence
HIV Drug Lamivudine A Promising Treatment In Metastatic Colon Cancer Trial
The trial included 32 patients with advanced metastatic colon cancer whose disease progressed despite four lines of previous cancer treatments. The first nine patients received the standard HIV-approved dose of lamivudine. After adjusting the dosing four-fold, another 23 patients received lamivudine therapy where it was highly tolerated.