Science 2.0

In 2014, A Voter Referendum Demanded New Water Storage - Government Has Done Nothing About It
Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion, And With It, One Of The Biggest Scientific Achievements In History
This week, scientists from the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California,
French Union Workers Exploit Cold Weather And Ukraine Situation To Get Paid - And That Means Using More Coal
The problem is it's a government union, and just like government unions in the US use taxpayer money to hire lobbyists to get themselves raises from other people in government paid by taxes on the poor, French government workers knew with Russia causing high competition and a cold snap during winter, it was the perfect time to strike. Literally and figuratively.
“Diversity, Inclusion, Equity And The Threat To Academic Freedom”: Excerpts
The Animals We See As Friends Versus Food
A new survey in Human-Animal Interactions attempted to assess social perceptions in Singapore about ‘food animals’ versus 'friends' and 'worth fighting for', broken down as ‘Love’, ‘Save’, ‘Indifferent’ and ‘Dislike.’
60% Of Africa Faces Severe Food Insecurity And European Colonialism Is The Root Cause
In the waning hours of the year’s biggest climate change conference – COP27 – we learned of a deal to create a loss and damage fund. This is essentially a source of finance to compensate poor countries for the pain they are incurring because of climate change. An often-cited example of such suffering is the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region, which has put some 22 million people at risk of severe hunger.
Such Serious Mistakes In NASA's Mars Samples Environmental Impact Statement - Best They Can Do Is Start Again
I was astonished when I read the draft EIS for NASA’s Mars sample return mission. NASA are normally so reliable. Normally their work is well grounded in the best and most recent science, and they are also very open with the public, for instance sharing their images from Mars as soon as they receive them themselves.
Waterhemp Weed Has Evolved Into A Major Pest - Blame Farmers?
A new paper found what you would expect, and a key reason why legacy pesticides used in the organic process require nearly 600 percent more chemicals per calorie; pests evolve as the science does.
Another Virus From China Has Been Detected In Switzerland
It was discovered after patients bitten by ticks suffered from fever and headaches, the typical symptoms of a TBE infection, but, no antibodies against the TBE virus or its genetic material could be detected in the affected individuals. Instead, the researchers found a previously unknown RNA virus, the Alongshan virus.
Is Life On Earth Due To Extraterrestrial Causes?
For the over four billion years that our terra firma has been around, meteorites have been hurtling through the atmosphere at high speeds toward its surface. and some argue that resulting debris may have included carbonaceous chondrites — a class of meteorite whose members contain significant amounts of water and small molecules, such as amino acids - and could have contributed to the evolution of life on Earth.
Phages: Scientists Create New Natural Weapon Against Bacterial Contamination And Infection
Eight Tips For Young Researchers
This Christmas, Help Us Debunk The Holiday Suicide Myth
If someone believes it, a producer or editor in corporate media will want to publish it, and therefore more people hear about it, and that is why many believe that suicide rates rise during the year-end holiday season. It isn't true, any more than there is more strange behavior in emergency rooms during full moons, but some will swear by their anecdotes.
ATLAS Awesome Flavour Tagging Algorithms
Don't get me wrong, I am all for a bit of personality in such web outlets, so the above rather than criticism should be seen as an exhortation to my CMS colleagues (as CMS the experiment I am a member of) to mimic its competitor. I look forward to a listing of "CMS wondrous new results on Higgs physics", e.g. ...
How Cats Went From Pest Control To Pet 10,000 Years Ago
Pet cats (Felis silvestris catus. Felis catus) are much more recent, and evidence shows they were allowed as pest control but gradually became companions as humans migrated and took cats with them. Like dogs, and unlike cattle and horses, there was a nexus for domestication; in the case of cats the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Distributive Justice: People Claim They Want More Income Fairness Until They Realize It Hurts Others
Organic Farmers Quit When Sweden Began To Limit How Much Chemical Input Could Be Used
The reason is simple; organic industry lobbyists picked an artificial point in time and declared anything before it was organic. Mutagenesis, for example, is a literal radiation and chemical bath to force mutations randomly, but thousands and thousands of products are not only on the market without protest, they are certified organic while far more precise modern genetic modification is not.
Cybernetic Augmentation: Ethics Versus Technology
Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of their brain. With training, the soldier could then control weapon systems thousands of miles away using their thoughts alone. Embedding a similar type of computer in a soldier’s brain could suppress their fear and anxiety, allowing them to carry out combat missions more efficiently.
Syn3: This Synthetic Bacteria Is The Smallest Mobile Lifeform Ever (Artificially) Created
Scientists introduced seven proteins, believed to be directly involved in allowing Spiroplasma bacteria to swim into a synthetic bacterium named syn3—through genetic engineering. syn3 was designed and chemically synthesized to have the smallest genomic DNA possible including the minimum essential genetic information required for growth from the smallest genomes of naturally occurring Mycoplasma bacteria.