Above Photo: Scientists for Extinction Rebellion Facebook page. One recent Wednesday, while most scientists around the world were carrying out their research, we stepped away from our day jobs to engage in a more direct form of communication. Along with more than 20 others from Scientists for Extinction Rebellion and assisted in our efforts by Doctors for Extinction Rebellion, we pasted scientific papers to the UK government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). A group of us glued ourselves to the building, and nine scientists were arrested. This kind of action may seem extreme for a scientist, but these are no ordinary times. As […]
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Above Photo: Scientists glued their hands to the U.K. Department for Business, Energy, & Industrial Strategy in London on April 13, 2022. Scientists for XR/Twitter. Demand End to ‘Fossil Fuel Madness’. “The government’s insane, and I don’t know what else to do, other than to do this, and to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up,” said ecologist Aaron Thierry. Over two dozen scientists on Wednesday glued scientific papers and their own hands to the windows of a U.K. government building in London to demand an end to fossil fuels. The demonstration was part of a […]
Arming Scientists And Society For The Climate Crisis By W. T. Whitney, Counter Punch. March 20, 2022 Arming Scientists And Society For The Climate Crisis2022-03-202022-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220320-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Mill, Bingen, Washington. (Jeffrey St. Clair). “[O]ur obligation as scientists [is] to make sure we fight the good fight and ensure the fruits of science are not monopolized by the powerful and the elite.” – Richard Levins Three scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are discouraged. New Zealanders Bruce C. Glavovic and Timothy F. Smith and Australian Iain White criticize governments for not doing enough about climate change. They are calling upon fellow IPCC scientists to no […]
Above Photo: The Doomsday Clock pictured at its current setting of “100 seconds to midnight”. Ryanicus Girraficus – Public Domain. Doomsday Clock At 100 Seconds To Midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emerged after World War II as a voice for peace by some of the scientists who developed the then ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Now, its mission has drifted into being an echo chamber for the US imperial project urging President Biden to take even more destabilizing actions against Russia. Dropping the A-bombs By the time that the scientists at the top-secret Manhattan Project had developed the atomic bomb […]
Above Photo: A dried tree is pictured against the background of an oil torch. (Getty Images) Rapidly rising levels of atmospheric methane are “very bad news for humanity and the planet,” warned one observer. Fresh U.S. government data spotlighting the rapid growth of atmospheric methane concentrations in recent years has scientists increasingly concerned that the human-caused climate crisis has triggered a vicious feedback loop, potentially resulting in unstoppable planetary warming. Research published in January by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showed that atmospheric concentrations of methane—a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period—soared past 1,900 […]
Above Photo: 3dpete. For years, top advertising and PR firms have profited by helping the fossil fuel industry spread misinformation, set up front groups, promote false solutions, and obstruct climate action. Climate scientists are demanding PR firms part ways with climate deniers On Wednesday, a group of more than 450 scientists called on advertising agencies to cut off their fossil fuel clients and to end their ties with an ongoing misinformation campaign that has time and again killed progress on addressing the climate crisis. In a joint letter, the scientists say that they are “consistently faced with a major and needless challenge” […]
Above Photo: A woman stops her son going in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution, for bathing, in New Delhi. AP Photo / Manish Swarup. The rapidly growing cocktail of synthetic chemicals now flooding the environment has now passed the safe limit for humanity, new research reveals. An international team of scientists has assessed how hundreds of thousands of chemicals produced by human activity are impacting the stability of global ecosystems. They say that we have now exceeded the planetary boundary for environmental pollutants. “The pace that societies are producing and releasing new […]
Above Photo: The US Justice Department launched the “China Initiative” in 2018 to fight suspected Chinese theft of technical secrets and intellectual property. (South China Morning Post / AP) Terrorizing Families And Ruthlessly Destroying Careers The Justice Department’s China Initiative Was Established By The Trump Administration To Crackdown On Chinese Economic And Scientific Espionage. However, Its Primary Targets Have Been Academics Prosecuted For Failing To Properly Disclose Their Connection To Chinese Universities On Grant Forms And It Has Led To Numerous Miscarriages Of Justice. On the Tuesday before Christmas, Dr. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107687/01/1076870163_0:0:1280:720_1200x675_80_0_0_5cc4a4ad4c7e708baff23efd456a0e1b.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010181080809731-hint-of-the-existence-of-life-on-venus-reportedly-discovered-by-scientists/ The researchers suggested that their findings could be confirmed by a mission to Venus that would collect samples from the planet’s “surface and cloud”. A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a certain amino acid in Venus’ atmosphere, which may or may not possibly hint at the presence of life on that planet, Science Alert reports. According to the media outlet, the amino acid in question, glycine, is the simplest of the amino acids present in the genetic code, adding that while amino acids are not biosignatures, they serve as […]
An electron microscope image shows the Sars-Cov-2 virus. A letter published in the Lancet by 80 signatories from the international science community says there is no evidence that immunity after recovering from Covid-19 lasts. Photograph: AP (real) Prominent scientists sign open letter saying strategy is ‘unsupported by evidence’ NEW Correspondence—80+ researchers warn that a so-called #herdimmunity approach to managing #COVID19 is “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by the scientific evidence” #WCPH2020 https://t.co/2gTtklAkwx pic.twitter.com/q4YNZFJM22 — The Lancet (@TheLancet) October 14, 2020 Infectious Diseases Society of America: “Promoting the concept of ‘herd immunity’… as an answer to the COVID-19 pandemic is inappropriate, irresponsible and ill-informed.”https://t.co/c42nfDLrBV […]
Scientists at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have developed a unique technology to obtain a promising material: high-purity cubic tungsten carbide, which will be able to replace expensive platinum catalysts and reduce the cost of producing hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen is widely used in oil refining and fertiliser production. It is also a promising environmentally friendly fuel that produces clean water when burned. Hydrogen production cost directly affects the development of energy, that’s why many research teams around the world are looking for a way to replace traditional, very expensive platinum group catalysts with new materials. High-purity cubic tungsten carbide is a promising […]
In May, the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) seemed to have been sidelined, with an expanded Joint Biosecurity Centre taking on a prominent role in co-ordinating the coronavirus response. The move had worried scientists, who said the new unit was “shrouded in mystery”. Senior MPs and scientists are rallying behind demands that advice issued to UK ministers by the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), set up earlier this year to deal with the country’s coronavirus response, be made public, writes The Telegraph. The government is being called upon to lift the shroud of secrecy surrounding the body that has […]
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their gene editing technique. Here, they are honored at the Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in California in 2014. Peter Barreras/Peter Barreras/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Peter Barreras/Peter Barreras/Invision/AP Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their gene editing technique. Here, they are honored at the Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center in California in 2014. Peter Barreras/Peter Barreras/Invision/AP The 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to two […]
Scientists are sounding the alarm that, once Covid-19-related social distancing ends, the world’s children may face a new pandemic from a mutated old enemy which was once a leading cause of death for kids in the Western world. Scarlet fever, caused by the bacteria streptococcus pyogenes and considered as deadly as Covid-19, has made a recent resurgence in the UK, China, South Korea and Vietnam, with cases recorded in Australia and even New Zealand. UK case numbers have also quadrupled in recent years. Scarlet fever symptoms include chills, fever, sore throat, abdominal pain, a swollen tongue, red rash, and peeling skin. […]
A team of Italian researchers has uncovered intact brain cells in the skull of a man who died nearly 2,000 years ago during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the city of Herculaneum, which was buried by ash. The man was believed to be around 20 years old when he died in the eruption, which took place in 79 AD. In a study published in January in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers concluded that the hot ash from the volcanic eruption charred the man’s brain through a process known as vitrification. Vitrification refers to the transformation of a […]
The Nobel Prize gold medal, awarded to each laureate. AP hide caption toggle caption AP The Nobel Prize gold medal, awarded to each laureate. AP The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford, for demonstrating that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes; and to Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Andrea Gehz of the University of California Los Angeles, for the discovery of a compact solid at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy which governs the orbits of stars, for which […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A new model of COVID-19 spread developed by specialists at the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences shows that herd immunity to the coronavirus could be obtained within a given population after only 3-10 percent of the people get sick. According to the institute’s lead scientist Sergey Trigger, the new model of the spread of COVID-19 takes four parameters into account: the number of people within a given population, the number of potentially dangerous contacts an infected individual has per day, the probability of getting infected and the span of the illness. “Having […]
Six galaxies have been revealed to be trapped in a supermassive black hole that formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang, shedding light on how some of the largest structures in the universe are brought into being. In research published on Thursday, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) detailed the discovery of a truly gargantuan black hole, roughly one billion times the mass of our sun, and how it managed to capture entire galaxies of planets and stars. The black hole, and the disc of matter around it is collectively known as quasar SDSS J103027.09+052455.0. Marco Mignoli, an astronomer […]
NASA has announced that at least five asteroids are due for close flybys of Earth on October 1 alone. Meanwhile, researchers believe one giant impact in the past once removed up to 60 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. October appears to be kicking off with a bang as a barrage of space-borne boulders heads our way over the course of Thursday. Asteroid 2020 SM4, measuring 9.9m (half a bowling lane) in diameter, passed at a distance of 3.1 million kilometers away, while the 15-meter long 2020 SU5, (as tall as the Hollywood sign), already passed at two million kilometers. The largest of […]
It’s news that may unsettle fans of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds,’ but scientists have proven that crows possess a form of consciousness and are smarter than they’ve been given credit for. Corvids, or the crow and raven family of birds, are consciously aware of their environments and the short-term passage of time, which in turn, generates subjective experiences, the researchers found. The team at the University of Tubingen in Germany conducted a series of experiments on two carrion crows (Corvus corone), in which they were each shown some 20,000 light signals over the course of dozens of sessions while electrodes monitored […]
Scientists can’t predict where the invaders will strike next. But one nightmare scenario is California’s vineyards—the fourth-largest global wine producer. (Marc McAndrews) Spotted Lanternfly Invades the U.S. Like wine? Read this. https://t.co/9ZJBavsdzu — MacGregorSmithsonian (@Jeff__MacGregor) September 24, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: This four-winged, multicolored, polka-dotted Spotted Lanternfly, first spotted in Pennsylvania in 2014, is on destructive insect. It has now infected five other states, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. The spotted lanternfly is especially destructive to grape vines, hops, trees, stone fruit, apples and other crops. this insect is a good hitchhiker so it is only a matter […]
The information below is highly classified. Asking the questions are Ian Greenhalgh and Don Fox. The answers are by the University of California’s team that investigated 9/11 for the US Department of Energy. Those answering are physicists who work in nuclear weapons design and testing exclusively, the world’s foremost experts. The information provided was the result of the official 9/11 investigation finished by the DOE in 2003 and turned over to the White House, member of the US Supreme Court and key congressional committees. This information was also reviewed by the JCOS. At least 200 US officials saw this report. Subsequent […]
Since emerging in China in late 2019, the coronavirus has spread to virtually every country around the world, causing nearly a million deaths, and doing trillions of dollars in economic damage amid efforts undertaken by all but a handful of nations to slow its spread. A small number of coronavirus-infected ‘super-spreaders’ is responsible for the rapid spread of the coronavirus, biologists and mathematicians from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw have found. The explosion in cases experienced by many countries in these early months was the result of super- and hyper-spreaders appearing at “super-spreading events” such as […]
An international team of scientists, together with researchers at the National Research Technological University MISiS (NUST MISiS), has synthesized a material for reconstructive surgery from blue mussel shells (Mytilus edulis). According to the researchers, the material is safe and has high antibacterial properties. The study results were published in the Ceramics International journal. Implant infections remain one of the main problems facing reconstructive surgery today. This problem can be solved by creating biomaterials with antibacterial activity, Evgeny Kolesnikov, the co-author of the study, a researcher at the Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials at Russia’s National University of Science and […]
An international team of researchers leading the decoding projected said that “implicit” forms of anti-Semitism are becoming more popular on Internet platforms and are expected to “become more explicit over time”. An international team of researchers will launch a new project aimed at limiting the spread of anti-Semitism online by means of artificial intelligence, according to the Alfred Landecker Foundation, which is funding the project, in a statement. The team of experts, which includes discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians from the Technical University of Berlin, King’s College London, as well as other renowned scientific institutions in Europe, will work to […]
A team of scientists has discovered a dramatic change in the purpose of sleep, which takes place when humans reach roughly two-and-a-half years of age, switching from rapid growth to a permanent damage-control function. Before this milestone, the brain grows very rapidly, making use of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep to build and strengthen synapses, the connections between neurons in our brains, as babies learn at an extraordinary rate. Once the two-and-a-half-year threshold is passed, however, the researchers now say that sleep’s primary function permanently switches to one of maintenance and repair. All animals experience ongoing background brain damage as a […]
Although dark matter makes up most of the universe, scientists still cannot explain the very nature of it, relying only on studying its gravitational effects on normal matter. In a recent study at Cornell University, researchers have drawn attention to the possible existence of “stupendously large black holes”, or SLABs, which could be the size of 100 billion suns, or bigger, which could potentially provide further findings on the nature of dark matter. As of today, the biggest black hole known to scientists is TON 618, which has a mass of 66 billion solar masses. “It’s surprising that little attention has been […]
Scientists used light to control the firing of specific cells to artificially create a rhythm in the brain, which acted like the mind- bending drug Ketamine enjoynz/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption enjoynz/Getty Images Scientists used light to control the firing of specific cells to artificially create a rhythm in the brain, which acted like the mind- bending drug Ketamine enjoynz/Getty Images Out-of-body experiences are all about rhythm, a team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccines after a briefing with public health experts in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks about coronavirus vaccines after a briefing with public health experts in Wilmington, Del., on Wednesday. Patrick Semansky/AP Distributing a vaccine or vaccines for the coronavirus will be one of the biggest challenges the next president faces, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said Wednesday. “The development of a vaccine is only part of the battle. Distributing a vaccine to the entire population is as complex and challenging as […]
Birds need to refuel occasionally during their long migrations and if food along the way is in short supply some don’t make it. However, mass deaths caused by starvation during the flight have generally been pretty rare. That is, until this year. Thousands of birds migrating from the Arctic tundra to America’s south-west have recently dropped dead in states such as New Mexico, Texas and Colorado as a result, it is believed, of climate change and the unprecedented wildfires it has caused, according to the Guardian which cited remarks made by Martha Desmond, a biology professor at New Mexico State University […]
A scientist at work on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate at Bogazici University in Istanbul in August. Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A scientist at work on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate at Bogazici University in Istanbul in August. Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Several vaccines are currently in large-scale studies to see if they can prevent COVID-19, and more are on the way. President Trump has been hinting that a vaccine could be ready before the end of October, but Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser to the administration’s Operation Warp […]
US Political Scientists Argue Evo Morales Should Be President Of Bolivia By Vijay Prashad and Manuel Bertoldi, Globetrotter. September 2, 2020 US Political Scientists Argue Evo Morales Should Be President Of Bolivia2020-09-022020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/evo-morales-re-election-sign-e1599077443525.jpg200px200px Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars—from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University—looked at raw evidence from the Bolivian election authorities that had been handed over to the New York Times. They suggest late-counted votes came from rural regions where the candidacy of incumbent President Evo Morales Ayma was popular; the character of these votes, […]
The search for alien life in the universe usually focuses on exoplanets orbiting around distant suns, but a new theory proposed by researchers in New York suggests an extreme form of ‘nuclear life’ may be living inside stars. While constantly scanning the skies for Earth-like planets inhabiting the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of their stars – not too hot but not too cold, allowing for liquid water on their surface – alien-hunting scientists may have overlooked a source of potential extremophile creatures: the stars themselves. Also on rt.com NASA shares stunning IMAGE of Earth-sized planet that could harbor alien life As the name […]
Swedish researchers have successfully created an out-of-body experience in which they “swapped participants’” bodies, drastically changing their perceptions of themselves while also interfering with their ability to make memories. The team from the Brain, Body, and Self Laboratory led by Henrik Ehrsson took 33 pairs of friends and “swapped” their bodies using VR headsets, which allowed participants to see themselves in their friend’s body. “Body swapping is not a domain reserved for science fiction movies anymore,” said neuroscientist Pawel Tacikowski from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The team also included a tactile element to the experiment so the participants could feel what […]
Scientists at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (NRNU MEPhI) have been the first to demonstrate an increase in quantum dots’ intensity and emission rate. According to the authors of the study, the development can help solve one of the key problems in creating a quantum computer and elevate biomedical monitoring to a new level. The research results were published in the highly rated Optics Express journal. Quantum dots are low-dimensional fluorescent nanostructures, which offer promise in the field of light-matter interaction. They are capable of absorbing a wide range of light, and emitting light in a narrow range of wavelengths, […]
Scientists at England’s University of Warwick recently announced they had discovered 50 new exoplanets by using a machine learning program to sift through mountains of data collected by satellite observatories. According to a group of scientists at the University of Warwick and London’s Alan Turing Institute, artificial intelligence designed by them has found dozens of new exoplanets previously missed by human astronomers. Their results have recently been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in which they describe how data from the Kepler space telescope and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), both operated by the US space agency […]
Scientists at Tyumen State University, as part of an international collaboration with Professor Sajikumar Sreedharan’s lab at the National University of Singapore, have managed to improve the system of biological utilisation of “garbage” in neurons to restore memory. According to the researchers, this will help treat Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible progressive memory disorder that slowly breaks down the connections between nerve cells and thinking skills. According to the WHO, in 2019 there were about 50 million people suffering from dementia in the world; in 60-70% of cases, Alzheimer’s disease was the cause of the syndrome. Patients struggle with […]
2020 Democrat nominee Joe Biden on Friday told ABC reporter David Muir that he would shut down the entire country to stop the spread of COVID-19 if the scientists recommended. Biden called for a mandatory nationwide mask mandate during his unhinged Democrat nomination acceptance speech in Delaware. “I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden told Muir Friday in his first joint interview with his running mate Kamala Harris. Of course Biden failed to explain how he would even have the authority to shut down the entire country. TRENDING: SHOCK VIDEO: “Mom! Call 911!” – Biden Supporters […]
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A surprisingly small active black hole located 15,000 light-years away is lighting up a neighboring gas cloud to a specific, shared rhythm, in a strange but fascinating phenomenon. The black hole system in question is called SS 433 and is considered a Microquasar: the black hole measures between 10 and 20 solar masses while its binary companion star is 30 times the mass of our sun. The pair orbit each other at a distance of roughly 100 light-years every 13 days, with the gas cloud pulsating in time with the underlying rhythm of the black hole. Also on rt.com Scientists devise […]
The unique tremor appeared to have turned around at some point near the fault zone and gone back with phenomenally increased velocity. Scientists have found evidence of a one-of-a-kind “boomerang” earthquake – a “back-propagating supershear rupture” that shook vast swathes of underwater terrain in the Atlantic Ocean near the equator in 2016. The results of respective research have been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The Romanche fracture zone that stretches for about 900 kilometres hiding between the South American and African tectonic plates produced a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake in August 2016. However, it was the tell-tale nature of shaking that made […]
Over seven months after the novel coronavirus went global, the United States still isn’t testing enough people. Nor is the U.S. delivering results quickly enough to provide meaningful disease surveillance. But virologists Dave O’Connor and Chris Mason had a simple idea for loosening up the testing logjam: pack vans with $5,000 worth of testing equipment and drive them around key locations in badly-hit communities with low testing rates and lagging test turnaround times. Welcome to Rabbit Hole, where we dive deep on the biggest story. It’s for Beast Inside members only. Join up today. Source link
The cerebellum, or “little brain” in Latin, is responsible for a variety of functions, including motor control, emotions, language, and cognitive abilities. This jack of all trades looks like a flat sheet that folds into many layers and sits under the cerebral cortex in the hindbrain. A new study conducted by a team of international scientists claims that doctors were wrong about the size of the cerebellum, also known as the “little brain”. According to the research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the cerebellum is much bigger than scientists previously thought, with its surface area […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107336/57/1073365749_0:101:1920:1181_1200x675_80_0_0_9d91b933c4f515010da76dc9952318f0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007251079980665-scientists-have-reportedly-discovered-remains-of-giant-pigeon/ Scientists from the University of New Mexico have found the remains of a giant pigeon, Tongoenas burleyi, on the islands of the Kingdom of Tonga in Oceania, according to the portal “Eurekalert!” The pigeon may be among the most common animals city-dwellers encounter on a daily basis, especially if they don’t own any house pets. However, US researchers in Polynesia have discovered an ancient relative of the modern pigeon which was a little less ordinary. They measured 50 cm in length, and weighed five times as much as modern pigeons. The diet of this […]
Physicists have achieved a world first which could revolutionize the field of medicine by measuring and studying a single, twisted nanoparticle in isolation, paving the way for microscopic ‘labs’ to replace traditional drugs. Researchers at the University of Bath employed a cutting-edge technique known as hyper-Rayleigh scattering optical activity (HRS OA) to examine gold particles at the nanoscale level, or somewhere in the region of 10,000 times smaller than a pinhead. Using this technique, they were able to measure the gold particles’ chirality. This is the particular twist in a given material which cannot be superimposed on any other, making it […]
Egypt was ruled by the pharaohs from approximately 3100 BC to 30 BC. However, there was a short period when the country was under the rule of the Hyksos, who took advantage of a power vacuum and seized control of Egypt for one hundred years – or at least that’s what historical documents have told us. Who precisely the Hyksos were remains unclear. Scientists from Bournemouth University claim to have debunked a millennia-old myth about an invasion of Egypt by the Hyksos. After the pharaohs retook power from them, the Hyksos were called foreign invaders of an obscure race. However, historians […]
The call comes 11 days ahead of the space agency launching the Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover. With this mission, NASA wants to unravel some of the mysteries that have been surrounding the red planet for decades. US scientist Charity Phillips-Lander from the Southwest Research Institute in Texas wants NASA to explore lava tubes on Mars as the astrobiologist and her team suspect that aliens may be living in tunnels on the red planet. The composition of the planet’s atmosphere, its extreme temperatures that can drop to minus 225 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 153 degrees Celsius), and cosmic radiation make […]
Researchers investigating how supermassive black holes (SMBH) form have made a major breakthrough using some state of the art kit to zoom in on a nearby galaxy like never before. The scientific community has long puzzled over how SMBHs form. Are they titans forged at the birth of the universe, with masses millions, if not billions, of times that of our Sun? Or are they merely mature versions of smaller ‘seed’ black holes that have grown so large by consuming everything around them? To answer this very question, astronomers and astrophysicists have been hunting for the smallest mass SMBH they can […]
A two-member advance team of the World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched to Wuhan to probe the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak will undertake preliminary work with local scientists, the agency’s emergencies chief has said. The team is currently under mandatory quarantine, the WHO’s Mike Ryan said at a press briefing on Monday. After their isolation period ends, the investigators will begin their work alongside their Chinese colleagues. The WHO has previously said its team will focus only on uncovering the “zoonotic source” of the disease. The decision to send a special team to Wuhan, believed to be the source of the […]
Planetary geophysicists have used a new numerical model to determine that the moon is in fact 85 million years younger than previously thought, having formed from the extremely violent and unlikely collision of two protoplanets. The boffins at the German Aerospace Center, led by Maxime Maurice, produced a model to more accurately calculate what exactly happened when the protoplanet Theia smashed into a nascent, and still-forming, Earth about 4.425 billion years ago. Previous estimations had suggested the moon formed around 4.51 billion years ago – that is, about 85 million years earlier. The new model suggests, however, that it was millions […]
The puzzling circular objects were captured on cameras during a survey involving the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, and proved to feature, quite unexpectedly, no commonly observed optical, infrared, or X-ray counterparts to the diffuse emission. An Australia-based research group has discovered a never-before-seen space phenomenon – circles of radio waves now dubbed “odd radio circles”, or more commonly ORCs, leaving scientists puzzled as to what could have caused them, a review in Nature Astronomy suggests. The results of the study have yet to be peer-reviewed. The objects were zoomed in on while the researchers were conducting a survey of […]
Noam Izenberg, a planetary geologist at Johns Hopkins University, and other researchers have drafted a white paper on the topic titled “Human Assisted Science at Venus: Venus Exploration in the New Human Spaceflight Age,” which has been submitted for peer review. According to the paper, there are two ways to get from Earth to Mars. The first method is via a conjunction mission, in which a spacecraft flies between the two planets when their orbits align. In that scenario, astronauts would need to wait for the planets to realign to successfully return to Earth. However, the problem is that waiting for […]
The new research postulates that a star has to be at least 1.5 solar masses in order to spread its “ashes” upon its demise. It appears that when a star dies, it ends up spreading chemical elements such as carbon across other celestial bodies, phys.org reports citing a new study that was recently published in Nature Astronomy. As the media outlet explains, the new research suggests that during the last stages of their lives, stars twice as big as the Sun produce carbon atoms that then get expelled to the surface and carried into the surrounding environment via stellar winds. “The […]
A researcher at Peking University’s Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images A researcher at Peking University’s Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them. More than 6,000 coronavirus-related preprints from researchers around the world have been posted […]
The global health body has repeatedly faced criticism over its slow rate of changing its stance in response to the rapidly developing coronavirus outbreak. Namely, the organisation has failed to endorse wearing face masks in public places, despite many governments introducing such requirement domestically. A group of 239 scientists from 32 countries have drafted a letter to the World Health Organisation, urging it to adopt a new policy towards handling the coronavirus infection, arguing that strong scientific evidence suggests that the virus might spread indoors by air, The New York Times reported, citing the letter and some of its signatories. The […]
The researchers say their study hasn’t brought humanity any closer to extracting energy from black holes, but noted that future generations could build a structure that may produce limitless energy using them. An international team of scientists has found an answer to a question that has troubled scientists for more than half a century – can a rotating black hole be used as a source of energy? According to a study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Physics, the answer is yes. In 1969, British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proposed a method known as the Penrose process, detailing how […]
Astronomers say the new research, which was published on 24 June in the journal Nature, will allow them to study how planets interact with their stars as well as provide more understanding about how planets form and evolve. An international team of scientists have discovered an exoplanet that is 8 percent larger than Neptune, the fourth-largest planet in our Solar System. It is located in the constellation Microscopium, 32 light years away from the Earth and orbits the star AU Microscopii (AU Mic) that scientists have long been interested in. Au Mic is estimated to be 20 to 30 million years […]
Prior to the 20th century, astronomers believed that the dark spots on the visible side of the moon were dried up seas and oceans. The scientists assumed that the far side of Earth’s natural satellite was covered with the same traces, but in the end, both assumptions turned out to be wrong. Scientists from the Earth‐Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Florida, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Towson University, NASA Johnson Space Centre, and the University of New Mexico have presented new clues about the way the Moon gained its near‐ and far‐side asymmetry, the […]
They are one of the oldest solid materials in the Solar System and make up 86 percent of all meteorites that have been found, but scientists still don’t know how they appeared. The new research may not only shed light on chondrules but also help scientists understand how our Solar System evolved. Scientists from Wesleyan University in Connecticut claim to have found the answer to the mystery of chondrules, the tiny round grains found in meteorites. For years scientists believed that the formation of these spheres, which were described by a 19th-century geologist Henry Clifton Sorby as “droplets of fiery rain”, […]
A laboratory technician holds a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate ready for a trial in May 2020. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images A laboratory technician holds a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate ready for a trial in May 2020. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images Approximately 200 COVID-19 vaccines are being actively developed. All vaccines have one main goal: to prepare a person’s immune system to fight off an invading organism should the body encounter it. To accomplish that, a vaccine presents the immune system with something that looks like the […]
China’s ambassador to the United States and a top Chinese diplomat in New York City have been facilitating their nation’s covert recruitment of scientists working in the United States, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court last year. The document, which was unsealed by a judge in April, provides an extraordinary window into China’s pursuit of U.S. trade secrets, shedding new light on its government-directed efforts to obtain “the fruits of cutting-edge American scientific research…which efforts involve intellectual property thefts on a massive scale.” An FBI special agent specializing in counterintelligence who signed the affidavit said the bureau received […]
Russian military doctors have administered the first trials of a potential homegrown coronavirus vaccine. According to the Ministry of Defence, volunteers have had no complications or adverse reactions. Eighteen people have been given an experimental vaccine, developed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, in collaboration with academics from Moscow’s Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. Conducted at a military hospital in the capital, participants were divided into two groups of nine, with each receiving a different vaccine component. “The first group of participants, consisting of 18 people who were vaccinated on June 18, were selected from the volunteers who stayed in […]
We all know the score by now: Fossil fuels are bad; Russia is bad. So where did the worst-ever fossil fuel burn happen? You guessed it! Researchers in the US say massive coal burning in Siberia caused the world’s worst extinction. During the Permo-Triassic extinction event, our planet was hit by lethal global warming which led to 96 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrates disappearing from the face of the Earth. Also on rt.com Dinosaur killing asteroid caused mass extinction by turning oceans ACIDIC It was long-hypothesized that the catastrophic event was caused by extensive coal […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107757/59/1077575970_0:28:1228:718_1200x675_80_0_0_4397ce32dca67e95c7909efb32835036.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202006161079629957-scientists-solve-a-half-century-old-mystery-surrounding-pulsars-intense-beams/ Pulsars are neutron stars that rotate at an extreme speed. When the first pulsar was observed by two British astronomers in 1967, scientists hypothesised that beams of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the celestial body could come from an alien race that was trying to send a signal to humans. An international team of scientists claims to have solved a mystery that has puzzled astronomers for more than 50 years – why pulsars act like celestial lighthouses shooting intense beams of electromagnetic radiation. According to the study, which was published on 15 June in the […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a group of angry far left “scientists” that he also is “deeply shaken and disgusted” with President Trump’s language. The far left ‘scientists” want President Trump and anyone who thinks like him to be banned off of the social media platform. Again, these angry leftists are labeled “scientists.”They want to silence anyone who does not agree with their thinking.You have to chuckle that they claim to be “scientists.” Gee, where have we seen this before? TRENDING: UPDATE — FULL BODYCAM VIDEO Reveals Atlanta Police Being Patient, Respectful with Rayshard Brooks (VIDEO) Of course, Zuckerberg and Facebook […]
As New Horizon’s principal investigator explained, the space probe effectively allowed us to “see the nearest stars visibly displaced on the sky from the positions we see them on Earth”. It turns out that the images recently snapped by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed that it got so far away from our planet that it essentially sees space differently than the observers back home, space.com reports. According to the media outlet, as the spacecraft photographed stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, scientists compared the pictures to the images of those very same stars captured by two ground-based telescopes and noticed […]
The scrolls are considered one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made. The 25,000 fragments contain copies of certain books from the Hebrew Bible as well as astronomical texts, calendars, community rules, and even the whereabouts of hidden treasure. The main problem is that they are disintegrated… A team of scientists from Tel Aviv University says that DNA testing could provide an answer to a decades-old mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that archaeologists have been desperately trying to solve. Ever since the texts were found in the middle of the 20th century, researchers have been trying to connect the […]
Astronomers have detected an “activity cycle” behind massive radio pulses emanating from a galaxy billions of light-years away, shedding light on one of the great cosmic mysteries, which some suggest could be a sign of alien life. Known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), the flashes of emissions were first noticed in 2007 and appear to originate from galaxies light-years away from Earth, but exactly what causes them still has scientists scratching their heads. The bursts are immensely powerful, giving off as much energy in the space of a few milliseconds as Earth’s sun does in a whole century. While more than […]
Summary1 – SARS and HIV in Canadian researches too2 – Since 2004 SARS infected with HIV in Wuhan3 – The super-viruses built in North Carolina4 – Chinese scientists under investigations in Canada5 – Spies arrested in the US and supicioius deaths6 – WuhanGates 10 reports recap “Science, my son, however great, is always a poor thing; it is less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of divinity“Saint Pio from Pietrelcina (from “A thought for every day” – publ. Padri Cappuccini, 1999) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO Human science was never able to explain […]
Researchers have successfully tested potentially revolutionary technology which could spell the beginning of an organ-donor-free future – after they successfully grew and transplanted miniature human livers… into rats. University of Pittsburgh scientists cultured those mini organs from reprogrammed human skin cells. In just a matter of weeks, the researchers were able to achieve maturation of those livers – a process that would normally take up to two years in full-sized livers. They then seeded the grown cells on a rat liver, using the animal’s vascular system and bile duct network to maintain them as they populated the remaining functional rat liver […]
Summary1 – SARS and HIV in Canadian researches too2 – Since 2004 SARS infected with HIV in Wuhan3 – The super-viruses built in North Carolina4 – Chinese scientists under investigations in Canada5 – Spies arrested in the US and supicioius deaths6 – WuhanGates 10 reports recap “Science, my son, however great, is always a poor thing; it is less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of divinity“Saint Pio from Pietrelcina (from “A thought for every day” – publ. Padri Cappuccini, 1999) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO Human science was never able to explain […]
Summary1 – SARS and HIV in Canadian researches too2 – Since 2004 SARS infected with HIV in Wuhan3 – The super-viruses built in North Carolina4 – Chinese scientists under investigations in Canada5 – Spies arrested in the US and supicioius deaths6 – WuhanGates 10 reports recap “Science, my son, however great, is always a poor thing; it is less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of divinity“Saint Pio from Pietrelcina (from “A thought for every day” – publ. Padri Cappuccini, 1999) by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO Human science was never able to explain […]
The coronavirus seems to be affecting babies less than other populations and Russian scientists suggest this may be due to proteins in breast milk that protects their immune system. Now they are trying a new drug based on it. “We have seen very few isolated cases of babies contracting the coronavirus among millions infected with it,” Igor Goldman, a senior research fellow at Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences said in interview to the media portal News.ru. He explained that this gave his team an idea to try lactoferrin – a protein normally contained in breast milk that protests […]
Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them By Raul Quintana, Conservation. May 24, 2020 Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ci_43766044_large-e1590338347960.jpg200px200px Above photo: A coral reef in Timor Leste © Cristina Mittermeier/sealegacy. Grim reports and unsettling headlines paint a bleak future for Earth’s coral reefs, which are projected to be wiped out by the end of the century due to climate change and pollution. But a new study shows that this future can be prevented — and outlines the relatively small steps humanity can take to ensure coral reefs’ long-term protection and productivity. Building off […]
Biologists in Canada have developed a new tool to sequence circular DNA and provide more accurate intelligence on how to fight some of the major scourges facing humanity, such as cancers and viruses. Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a tool called Circular DNA enrichment sequencing or ‘CIDER-Seq’ for short. The high-tech package is powered by the DNA sequencing technology PacBio and was made available online, free-to-use, along with step-by-step guides for how to sequence the DNA, to help expedite work in numerous fields of research from cutting edge cancer studies to agricultural science. “With our invention of CIDER-Seq, […]
Tech 09:18 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL Engineers at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have proposed and patented a new method for the ultrasonic automated non-destructive quality control of large parts. The research authors say this solution minimises the use of fluids during examinations, which makes the process much simpler and cheaper, according to the university’s press service. Two approaches are common in industrial robotic ultrasonic parts testing: full immersion (immersing parts into water or another immersion fluid) and local immersion through the creation of a coupling with a fluid or through a stream of water under pressure. The first method has significant […]
The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted Russian health professionals to develop new methods for treating coronavirus patients. As the creation of an anti-COVID vaccine does not seem to be imminent, Russian scientists are prioritising the urgent production of drugs that activating human beings’ innate immunity. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses substantial challenge to the world’s health professionals given that a coronavirus-specific treatment and vaccines have yet to be developed. Russian researchers, infectious disease doctors and nurses are no exception. Pitfalls of COVID “Medical science has now more than ever been in demand; the hopes of all the world’s countries are linked to […]
Scientists have detected an antibody that blocks the coronavirus from entering cells, providing a much-needed shield for severely ill patients. While not a cure or vaccine, it is still a significant development. “This is clearly a breakthrough that shows that we are on the right track for the development of a drug against Covid-19,” said virologist Professor Luka Cicin-Sain. “In repeated experiments, we were able to show that this result is sustainable.” Cicin-Sain and his team analyzed 6,000 different human antibodies and found more than 750 that dock with the coronavirus and prevent it from spreading further in already infected patients. […]