A new study out of York University in Toronto, Canada finds that the US military plays a large role in the spread of diseases globally, including past and present pandemics. Clearing the FOG speaks with one of the lead authors, K J Noh, an expert analyst on the geopolitics of the Asian-Pacific region and health, about the study. Important factors in the spread of disease are Status Agreements that the US military makes with local and national governments that exempt members of the military from being required to follow public health measures and a culture of impunity within the military that […]
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A new report, jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on work-related deaths for the year 2016, shows that workplace-related diseases and injuries led to the deaths of 1.9 million people in that year. The WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury, 2000-2016, conducted before the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, gives a glimpse of the terrible toll taken on the international working class by the insatiable profit drive of the corporations. Globally, 34.3 out of every 100,000 people over age 15 die each year from work-related causes. The WHO/ILO study […]
U.S. Military is taking the potential for use of space launch vehicles to transport supplies in an emergency, according to a recent service news release. In a release last week, the U.S. military command that oversees logistics operations said that it has signed an agreement with two private spaceflight companies to study the potential for cargo delivery via orbit. “Think about moving 80 short tons, the equivalent of a C-17 payload, anywhere on the globe in less than an hour,” U.S. Army Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, commander, USTRANSCOM, said during his virtual remarks at the Airlift/Tanker Association’s (A/TA) Conference on Oct. […]
Oxford Study Challenges Israel’s Claims Concerning Palestinian Refugees By Miko Peled, Mintpress News. October 26, 2020 Oxford Study Challenges Israel’s Claims Concerning Palestinian Refugees2020-10-262020-10-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/palestine.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian refugees carry their belongings as they flee across the wrecked Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River from the Israeli-occupied section of Jordan, June 22, 1967. Bernard Frye | AP. A Historical Reckoning. Pro-Israel institutions and spokespeople like to claim that the Palestinian refugee issue has passed some imaginary statute of limitations, but as a comprehensive new Oxford study shows, it “has since become even stronger.” There needs to be a fundamental change in the […]
A new study has found that home sale prices and volume appear to be declining in Florida coastal areas at vulnerable to rising sea levels compared to coastal areas with less risk. Here, the balcony view from a luxury condo in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., in 2017. Rhona Wise/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rhona Wise/AFP via Getty Images A new study has found that home sale prices and volume appear to be declining in Florida coastal areas at vulnerable to rising sea levels compared to coastal areas with less risk. Here, the balcony view from a luxury condo […]
Some 4.5 billion years ago, our planet was a drastically different place – an uninhabitable world with extremely hot temperatures, toxic air, and pounded with radiation coming from the Sun in the form of flares and coronal mass ejections. Scientists believe everything changed with the formation of the Moon. The Earth and the Moon once had a joint magnetic field that acted as a shield against solar wind particles, says a new study conducted by an international team of scientists led by NASA. For a long time, scientists believed that the Moon didn’t have a long-lasting magnetic field due to the […]
Johnson & Johnson has temporarily halted its coronavirus vaccine trial after a trial participant contracted an “unexplained illness,” the company said, though offered few additional details about the setback. The pharma firm’s 60,000-patient vaccine study was paused due to an adverse reaction in a volunteer, J&J confirmed to Stat News on Monday, citing privacy concerns while declining to outline the patient’s symptoms. “We must respect this participant’s privacy. We’re also learning more about this participant’s illness, and it’s important to have all the facts before we share additional information,” the company said in a statement. Also on rt.com Second AstraZeneca volunteer […]
Australia’s national science agency, in new research, found that the COVID-19 coronavirus can survive on different surfaces for about a month, making the need for measures like hand-washing and sanitizing even more important. In research published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, said that the COVID-19 coronavirus is able to survive for longer on smooth surfaces and in cold temperatures, specifically pointing at paper banknotes, glass and steel, as materials that are more suitable for the virus to survive. Tested in a laboratory – which means that some factors, including UV-lighting, was not involved in […]
Although the magnetic field created during such an experiment would last only a matter of nanoseconds, this time span would reportedly be enough for modern physics experiments. A bold new study claims that it would be possible to generate magnetic fields comparable with those that exist in neutron stars and black holes, on Earth, Live Science reports. According to the media outlet, although no one has managed to surpass the results of a 2018 lab experiment where lasers were employed to create a magnetic field “just over” 1 kilotesla (1,000 tesla; to put it in perspective, magnetic resonance imaging machines used […]
American adults over 30 say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption toggle caption Luca Bruno/AP American adults over 30 say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. Luca Bruno/AP Perhaps it’s no surprise, but people are drinking more during the pandemic. In some cases, by a lot. American adults say they’re drinking 14% more often during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the journal JAMA Network Open. The increase in […]
By Curd Knüpfer and Robert Mathew Entman, The Conversation Fox News is up to five times more likely to use the word “hate” in its programming than its main competitors, according to our new study of how cable news channels use language. Fox particularly uses the term when explaining opposition to Donald Trump. His opponents are said to “hate” Trump, his values and his followers. Our research, which ran from Jan. 1 to May 8, 2020, initially explored news of Trump’s impeachment. Then came the coronavirus. As we sifted through hundreds of cable news transcripts over five months, we noticed consistent […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080650100_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_378a9ee3aaca461bf5f1d483663fb305.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202010031080650082-russia-may-send-mission-to-venus-to-study-biomarkers-in-atmosphere-in-2027/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia may send an urgent space mission to Venus in 2027 to study possible signs of life in the planet’s atmosphere, a spokesperson for the Russian aerospace company NPO Lavochkin said. Russia’s current plans include three scientific missions to Venus from 2029 to 2034. “Now [Russia] is studying an opportunity to organise in 2027 an urgent specific mission to the atmosphere [of Venus] to study the origins of phosphines”, the spokesperson said at a conference in the Russian Space Research Institute. Scientists from the UK’s Cardiff University and the US’ Massachusetts […]
Ice loss from Greenland’s ice sheet will cause sea levels to increase more during the 21st century than any ice loss during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Using an ice-sheet model, researchers found that the most substantial pre-industrial rates of ice loss from the Greenland sheet, up to 6,000 billion metric tons per century, took place in the early Holocene period, which began nearly 12,000 years before the present. Simulations of future mass loss from the southwestern Greenland ice sheet predict that the mass lost in the […]
Daily Beast: It’s easy to dismiss President Donald Trump’s witless mutterings about the coronavirus pandemic as laughable or patently untrue, like when he suggested injecting sunlight into human bodies. But a study has found that the knock-on effect of his baseless claims are much more far-reaching and damaging than many might think. Trump is the “single largest driver” of virus misinformation, Cornell study findshttps://t.co/QUkwJcENeu pic.twitter.com/ssvTCwjJAM — David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) October 1, 2020 Cornell study: President Trump is biggest source of coronavirus misinformation https://t.co/u1TVtkVty1 — Geoff Herbert (@deafgeoff) October 1, 2020 Researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about […]
Amid ambitious projects by the US to return humans to the Moon already this decade, scientists have been particularly concerned over the potential dangers that future astronauts might face from space radiation A fresh study has suggested that future manned missions to the Moon need not fear detrimental consequences for the health of their astronauts from the radiation on the surface of the planet. While earlier the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s proved it was safe for people to spend a few days on the lunar surface, at the time their devices captured total exposure from the entire journey, […]
Potential signs of life on Venus were earlier discovered in a groundbreaking study carried out by an international collaboration of researchers after traces of phosphine were spotted in the planet’s yellow clouds. A meteor that zoomed past planet Earth may have brought life to Venus, according to new research. Harvard scientists involved in the study, Transfer of Life Between Earth and Venus with Planet-Grazing Asteroids, claim at least 10,000 microbial colonies, gathered up from the atmosphere when a meteor skimmed our planet in 2017, have collided with the distant celestial object which has now been pegged as potentially supporting life. Earlier […]
According to Johns Hopkins University data, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world has reached 31 million and claimed at least 1 million lives, as several countries reimpose strict new coronavirus measures. A new study conducted by scientists in Houston and published on MedRxiv has revealed new mutations of coronavirus, with one potentially stronger and possibly prone to evolve. The new mutations, according to the yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, do not impact the clinical outcomes of the disease or make it deadlier. However, one of the mutations could make it more contagious. “We have given this virus a lot of […]
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A researcher has suggested that there is something which could have altered the Titanic’s navigational readings, bringing about a collision with an iceberg that killed almost 1,500 passengers. The Titanic could have hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic after being pushed off course by intense space weather, Mila Zinkova, an independent US researcher and a retired computer scientist, has suggested in a new study, which claimed that a huge solar flare in the northern hemisphere may have actually caused the disastrous crash. The researcher cited evidence of strong solar activity on the night the Titanic sank – 15 April 1912 […]
A new study purporting to show that the novel coronavirus was manufactured in a Chinese lab was published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Steve Bannon, the former top Trump strategist now facing felony fraud charges. The study, co-authored by a Chinese virologist who fled Hong Kong this year, claims that “laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CoV-2.” Its findings were quickly picked up by a handful of prominent news organizations such as the New York Post, which hyped the “explosive” allegations that run counter to virtually all existing scientific literature on the source of the virus. […]
Did Sturgis Really Infect 250,000 People STAGGERING A new study finding the rally responsible for a quarter-million new COVID-19 cases was deemed “plausible” by a virologist and epidemiologist who spoke to The Daily Beast. New analysis on Covid spread triggered by Sturgis event and implicated in the current epidemic in South Dakota. The estimates in […] Source link
A recent study by researchers in Brazil found that people with antisocial traits like low levels of empathy and higher levels of callousness, deceitfulness and risk-taking are less likely to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures, such as mask-wearing and social distancing. The study, conducted by researchers at the State University of Londrina, polled 1,578 Brazilian adults between the ages of 18 and 73. The study participants answered questionnaires about their compliance with COVID-19 containment measures as well as personality traits such as empathy and willingness to take risks. “Our findings indicated that antisocial traits, especially lower levels of empathy and higher […]
While both major US political parties spend billions of dollars bombarding the population with political ads, a new study from Yale University found that the commercials have little to no effect on voters. The new study found that regardless of the content or audience, TV political ads have little effect on voters, despite their own leanings or the timing of the ads relative to current events. “There’s an idea that a really good ad, or one delivered in just the right context to a targeted audience, can influence voters, but we found that political ads have consistently small persuasive effects across […]
The inner core powers the dynamic process that generates our planet’s magnetic field, which protects the Earth from many forms of harmful radiation and plays a crucial role in the planet’s ability to harbor life. Despite its importance, not much is known about its history or when it formed. A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas has revealed the age of the Earth’s inner core. Over the years scientists have made different assumptions about how old the inner core is, with versions ranging from half a billion to 4.5 billion years-old, indicating that it would have formed […]
The new research may reassure worried parents but also anger education unions who have raised concerns over all pupils returning to school. Only six British children have died of Covid-19 and all had ‘profound’ pre-existing health problems, new research has shown. The lead author of the study published in the British Medical Journal said it should reassure parents anxious about their children returning to school next month amid the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. “They should be confident that their children are not going to be put at direct harm by going back to school,” said the University of Liverpool’s Professor Calum Semple. “We […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. It’s impossible to understand the Trump era, with its unparalleled polarization, without tracing Stephen Miller’s journey to the White House. That’s what my guest, Jean Guerrero, writes in her new book, “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, And The White Nationalist Agenda.” She describes Miller as the architect of Trump’s border and immigration policies, helping Trump, quote, “conjure an invasion of animals to come steal American jobs and spill American blood,” unquote. She describes the ideological arc of Miller’s life and investigates his ties to right-wing mentors and far-right groups. She adds, […]
A fresh study by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, one of the oldest British social care charities, has cited a number of insiders sharing the nitty-gritty details of the nation’s battle with the coronavirus, as well as updated figures on the heavy toll it has had on the NHS. UK nursing homes were “constantly pressed” to accept corona-infected and untested residents after they were discharged from packed hospitals, while their own wards were refused the assistance of GPs and hospital treatment at the height of the pandemic, a new study reveals, as cited by the Independent. The Queen’s Nursing Institute, an authoritative […]
In addition to large plastic trash, researchers estimate that more than 21 million metric tons of tiny plastic debris are floating well below the Atlantic Ocean’s surface. Michael O’Neill/Science Source Scientists are trying to understand how much plastic humans are pumping into the ocean and how long it sticks around. A study published this week says it may be much more than earlier estimates. By some measures, the plastic trash that’s floating on the surface of the water only accounts for about 1% of the plastic pollution that humans generate. “If we are missing 99% of plastic that we thought we […]
In 2017, scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa spotted a celestial object travelling at a breakneck speed. Later it became known that the mysterious object was the first-known interstellar object to pass through our Solar System, but the most important issue is scientists still don’t know the object’s origins and cannot classify it. The cigar-shaped object Oumuamua cannot be a hydrogen iceberg, claims a new study conducted by an international team of scientists from South Korea and the United States. The findings of the research published on 17 August in The Astrophysical Journal of Letters, dispute the study by […]
A new research report published last Thursday in the journal Current Biology suggests that syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease, may have spread through Europe before Christopher Columbus ever set sail to the Americas in the late 15th century. The most popular hypothesis is that syphilis and other infections caused by varieties of the Treponema pallidum bacterium, including yaws, an infection of the skin, bones and joints, and bejel, a a chronic skin and tissue disease, were brought to Europe from the Americas. However, the recent study, conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich, suggests that Treponema pallidum existed in Europe […]
Health Editor’s Note: You might wonder why this article is important when the title mentions that this study mostly relates to mice. We all know that mice are used when research is done to find out how to help humans. When a person has severe COVID-19, he or she will be given oxygen by mask or cannula, then if this supplemental oxygen is not adequate to keep body tissues profused with oxygen, he or she may need to be placed onto a ventilator in order to make sure the body tissues have enough oxygen to survive. Not enough oxygen in the […]
Major New Study Calls For A Ban On Facial Recognition In Schools August 10, 2020 Major New Study Calls For A Ban On Facial Recognition In Schools2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/09/stop-facial-recognition-1-e1567646938181.jpg200px200px A new study from the University of Michigan on the use of facial recognition in schools is recommending that lawmakers and school administrators ban the use of this technology in educational settings. The researchers behind the study write that facial recognition in schools “will likely have five types of implications: exacerbating racism, normalizing surveillance and eroding privacy, narrowing the definition of the ‘acceptable’ student, commodifying data, and institutionalizing inaccuracy. Because FR is automated, it will extend […]
Study: Return To Work Not Affected By $600 Unemployment Boost By James Myall, Maine Center for Economic Policy. August 9, 2020 Study: Return To Work Not Affected By $600 Unemployment Boost2020-08-092020-08-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/businessopeining_gradient2-e1596983310777.jpg200px200px There’s no relationship between expanded Unemployment Compensation payments and individuals’ likelihood of returning to work, according to two recent studies. One, by researchers at Yale University, finds that more generous UC payments are not related to lower rates of return to work. Another shows employers saw no overall decline in the number of applicants per job vacancy as a result of the increased payments. The findings refute the assertion by some pundits and politicians from both parties who claim […]
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 […]
Dr. Fauci recently used another reported study to debunk the use of hydroxychloroquine as a viable treatment to save the lives of individuals sick with the China coronavirus. But an expert’s review of the report shows that the study actually confirms that hydroxychloroquine saves lives not the opposite. Dr. Fauci shared the following about the drug hydroxychloroquine last week in front of Congress: Don’t play these hydroxychloroquine games with Dr. Fauci pic.twitter.com/D58aXyFAVZ — NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 1, 2020 TRENDING: Federal Government and Yale Are Holding Clinical Trials on How Best to ‘Persuade’ Americans to Take COVID-19 Vaccines Fauci insists that the […]
How The Harvard Covid-19 Study Became The Center Of A Partisan Uproar By Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News. July 28, 2020 How The Harvard Covid-19 Study Became The Center Of A Partisan Uproar2020-07-282020-07-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/12/los-angeles-air-pollution-e1545846019560.jpg200px200px Above photo: Air pollution over Los Angeles. Virus cases were surging, Trump’s EPA was reviewing air pollution standards, and two scientists were trying to navigate the ‘Wild West’ that resulted. The shock of Covid-19 hit in different ways for Xiao Wu, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student in Harvard’s public health school, and his academic adviser, biostatistician Francesca Dominici. Wu, a former national high school math champion in China, was […]
New research by travel website Asher & Lyric has found that the US is the second-worst wealthy nation in the world in which to raise a family during 2020. The travel site ranked 35 countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is an intergovernmental economic organization. “We only used OECD countries because they have reliable data in a wide range of key topics useful for this study. Our definitive ‘Raising a Family Index’ is comprised of 30 critical statistics from trusted international sources broken down into 6 categories identifying favorable conditions for raising a […]
The US is one of the worst countries in the world to raise a family, while Britain also scores badly, according to new research. America was ranked 34 out of 35 in a comparison of the world’s biggest economies, scoring three ‘F’ grades for safety, cost of living and work-life balance, a ‘D minus’ for health, and a ‘C+’ for happiness and education. Overall, it was given an ‘F’ grade for raising a family, with only Mexico coming out worse. The ‘Raising a Family Index’ was compiled from 30 studies of countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) which are advanced democracies […]
Over the last couple of years, Japanese authorities have been trying to solve the puzzle over so-called “ghost ships”, presumably of North Korean origin, that have turned up on the country’s coast. Some of them contained decomposed human remains, prompting local officers and media speculate about origin of these mysterious phenomenon. Illegal fishing by Chinese vessels in North Korean waters may explain why hundreds of unidentified fishermen have been washed up on the Japanese coast, with these incidents often resulting in starvation and death, according to a study by Global Fishing Watch (GFW) published in Science Advances. The research used four satellite […]
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party has desperately tried to convince the world that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, was naturally transmitted from animals to humans. That is, SARS-CoV-2, over time, naturally mutated in animals until it attained structures capable of infecting humans. A new scientific study, however, demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2 could not have “jumped” from animals to humans in the way China claims, because it is probably incapable of infecting bats or pangolins (scaly anteaters), the only two animal hosts that could have harboured the virus. TRENDING: Photo Appears […]
A new study published in the Nature Climate Change journal on Monday states that polar bears could face extinction if climate change continues to melt sea ice. The study found that polar bears in the Arctic may near extinction by the end of the century due to climate change-induced melting of ice. The findings were based on models of greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers’ study foresees a dwindling population of bears, with their model suggesting that “with high greenhouse gas emissions, steeply declining reproduction and survival will jeopardize the persistence of all but a few high-Arctic subpopulations by 2100.” “Moderate emissions […]
Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds by Apoorva Mandavilli/The New York Times In the heated debate over reopening schools, one burning question has been whether and how efficiently children can spread the virus to others. A large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Children younger than 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero. And those between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do. The findings suggest that as schools reopen, communities will see clusters of […]
Health Editor’s Note: While this is a pre-print, non-peer reviewed paper, I tend to believe this will prove to be very useful in treating future COVID-19 patients, especially since planet earth are not near the end of this pandemic….Carol Six distinct ‘types’ of COVID-19 identified Kings College London News Centre Analysis of data from the COVID Symptom Study app, led by researchers from King’s College London, reveals that there are six distinct ‘types’ of COVID-19, each distinguished by a particular cluster of symptoms. Moreover, the team found that these types differed in the severity of the disease and the need for […]
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 […]
The results of an earlier study carried out in Spain suggested that so-called herd immunity was not a feasible way to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, as it showed that no more than five percent of the population had developed antibodies – nowhere near the levels said to be required to develop herd immunity. Herd immunity in the UK may have reached the required level to shield the population of the country against a second wave of COVID-19, suggests a new study by Oxford University scientists, cited by The Independent. In the paper, “The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and […]
Shai Efrati, an associate professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University and a senior doctor at the Shamir Medical Center in the city of Tzrifin, said that the secret for reversing aging in the brain has been “right in front of our noses” the whole time. A group of Israeli physicians led by Shai Efrati, director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center and a Tel Aviv University associate professor, claims to have found a successful way to “reverse” aging in the brain, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107921/49/1079214949_0:28:1280:748_1200x675_80_0_0_6ef63e8d46a3f6ca2e481b3672dc392a.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007151079895170-strange-travelling-star-possibly-went-supernova–survived-new-study-suggests/ Having examined the star’s temperature and mass, scientists estimate that the partial supernova occurred some 40 million years ago. A peculiar star hurtling through our galaxy may have been set on its course by a “partial” supernova event, Space.com reports, citing a new study. The star, a white dwarf with a relatively low mass for its kind, was first discovered in 2015 and is located about 1,430 light years from Earth, with the study noting that this celestial body is traveling at a speed of about 900,000 kilometers per hour “in the opposite direction […]
The results from a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the only reason children are being kept from school due to the China coronavirus is politics. The New England Journal of Medicine released the results of a study on the China coronavirus that are shocking. Children have a very low risk of catching the China coronavirus. Advertisement – story continues below Based on the study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the senior author concluded that: “[E]ven if children do get infected, they are less likely to transmit the disease to others than adults. […]
A preliminary study set to soon be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal suggests that a century-old tuberculosis vaccine may play a role in decreasing COVID-19 mortality rates. The research, conducted by Assistant Professor Luis Escobar of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment and two officials at the US National Institutes of Health, sought to uncover why developing countries, including some Latin American ones, are seeing lower COVID-19 mortality rates than several US states. “This is remarkable, considering that [these parts of] Latin America have much higher population densities than the North American states […]
A recently published study suggests that farm and domestic animals can be used to predict when earthquakes may occur, because they behave abnormally leading up to the seismic shakes. To test their hypothesis, German researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the Cluster of Excellence Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior attached sensors to cows, sheep and dogs in an earthquake-prone region in Northern Italy. During the study period of several months, there were about 18,000 earthquakes in the region, but only 12 had ratings of four or higher on the Richter scale. By monitoring the […]
A new study published last week in the journal JAMA Neurology found that COVID-19 may cause neurological symptoms in children. The study, which was published online on July 1, identified neurological manifestations in four out of 27 COVID-19 patients who were under the age of 18. Those four patients, who were previously healthy, had several neurological symptoms including encephalopathy, which is a broad term to describe brain changes that lead to an altered mental state, muscle weakness and reduced reflexes. Other symptoms included impaired consciousness, seizures, acute cerebrovascular disease, which refers to a group of conditions that affect blood vessels and […]
Nature is characterized by the concept of survival of the fittest and is often brutal and unfair. For penguins, this means having to get creative when nature calls while they’re protecting their nests. Achinstrap and Adélie penguins are reluctant to leave their eggs unguarded in the nest, even when they need to relieve themselves. Since doing their duty in the nest would make for an uncomfortable home space, a penguin looking after eggs will instead point its rear end away from the nest and fire a projectile of fecal matter, which lets it keep the nest clean without ever leaving the […]
On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO over-stated the mortality rate of the virus by at least 20 times the actual number. We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. We reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu. Next we followed up on this study on June 18th with more current data […]
A nationwide study in Spain has found that, despite being one of the hardest-hit European nations, just 5 percent of the population has coronavirus antibodies, dispelling any hopes of herd immunity in the near future. The research, published in the widely respected medical journal The Lancet, began in April and included some 61,000 participants from a country with over 250,000 cases confirmed and over 28,000 deaths. Herd immunity is said to occur when the majority of a population has been vaccinated or developed antibodies to fight off a particular bacterial or viral infection. The concept of herd immunity was the main […]
(Guest post from a TGP reader) Hydroxychoroquine may save your life. Get the best information you can. Despite what you previously heard about Hydroxychloroquine’s ineffectiveness for fighting the COVID-19 virus, new studies provide almost overwhelming proof of the opposite. Everyone owes it to themselves and their loved ones to do their homework so they understand the real truth about current treatment options based on the most timely and credible information. For yours and your loved ones sake, I urge you to not make a life and death decision based on politics or inaccurate news reporting. The (https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext#) peer reviewed refereed study, […]
According to the study, a new mutation of the coronavirus named G614 has become more common than its initial form, originating in Europe and then spreading to the United States. A study on the COVID-19 coronavirus, published in the Cell journal, reveals that the virus has developed a new form – a more infectious and apparently fitter mutation that has received the name G614. The change was seen by a scientist in the ‘Spike’ protein, an amino acid used by the virus to penetrate cells. Erica Ollmann Saphire of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology and the Coronavirus Immunotherapy Consortium, who […]
George Floyd riots in Los Angeles A new study claims that the Black Lives Matter riots actually may have slowed the overall spread of the Coronavirus. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets rioting, looting and protesting without social distancing. However, the study claims that the riots actually slowed the spread of COVID because the violent riots caused many more people to stay home. Maybe because law-abiding citizens were obeying lockdown orders and choosing not to destroy their own cities? TRENDING: Woke Harvard Senior Claims TikTok Video of Her Saying She’ll Stab and Watch Bleed Out the Next Person […]
A new information technology study on voice assistants has resulted in the creation of a list of more than 1,000 word sequences that can trigger the devices to begin invading users’ privacy and listening to nearby conversations. While owners of voice assistants have been repeatedly reassured that their devices will remain inactive until called upon, new research conducted by Germany’s Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Bochum Max Planck Institute for Cyber Security and Privacy has identified over 1,000 words and phrases that inadvertently activate the machines. The list of terms includes words in English, German and Chinese. For example, in the […]
Top members of the Senate Banking Committee plan to introduce legislation that would direct the congressional watchdog to study virtual currency’s role in drug and human trafficking. Source link
New research published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the South Pole is warming three times more rapidly than the rest of the world, thanks to a combination of both human-induced climate change and ocean temperature variability in the tropical Pacific. The researchers came to their conclusion after analyzing data from the US Amundsen-Scott scientific research station at the South Pole. The data analysis revealed that between 1989 and 2018, the South Pole has warmed by 1.8 degrees Celsius, working out to an increase of slightly more than 0.6 degrees Celsius per decade. More rapid changes […]
The extinction of monstrous reptiles that inhabited our planet over 200 million years ago has long been a mystery and a subject of hot debate between paleontologists. Now, the ancient secret has allegedly been unveiled. Research conducted by authors at University College London has offered proof that an asteroid strike on earth was the reason that dinosaurs became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene era. Researchers analyzed various extinction scenarios and have concluded that only asteroid impact could result in such a large extinction event of non-avian dinosaurs. According to the researchers, the asteroid caused a “prolonged cold winter that suppresses potential global dinosaur habitats”, […]
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They are one of the most intelligent animals in the world, with a complex form of communication, and are capable of self-awareness. Scientists know that the aquatic mammals use tools to play games and even to catch prey, something researchers think they are taught by their mothers. Dolphins teach each other how to be better hunters, says a new study conducted by an international team of scientists. According to the research, published on 25 June in the journal Current Biology, dolphins not only learn new ways to catch prey, but are eager to learn from their peers. “Our study shows that […]
Coronavirus transforms the infected cells in a highly unusual manner, forcing them to grow long, protruding branches, which penetrate multiple healthy cells at once, a new study has found. Scientists took a closer look at the effects of SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 – through a powerful microscope at the National Institutes of Health laboratory in the US and the University of Freiburg in Germany. The virus makes the infected cells sprout multi-pronged spaghetti-like ‘tentacles’ reaching out for several still-healthy cells nearby. The virus seems to use these branching structures, called filopodia, like syringes to prod other cells and […]
Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in Barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the dreaded disease was reported in China, claims a new study by a group of Spanish researchers. Scientists with the Enteric Virus Group at the University of Barcelona detected the presence of the virus in frozen samples of the city’s wastewater collected as early as March 12, 2019. The group, led by Rosa Maria Pintó and Albert Bosch, was exploring the potential of wastewater analysis in early warning systems and the prevention of future Covid-19 outbreaks when it made the surprise discovery. Also […]
A new survey shows that Americans are delaying their dreams of home and family life to focus on personal finances. A study commissioned by financial planning nonprofit Life Happens and conducted by One Poll of 2,000 Americans finds that a majority of respondents are putting the hallmarks of traditional adulthood, like marriage, starting a family and saving for retirement, on the backburner, reports Study Finds. Sixty-one percent of respondents said such plans were no longer important to them, with the primary reason being money. The milestone being delayed the most was saving for retirement, followed by marriage, having children, buying a […]
While the eruption in question did occur around the time of the Roman Republic’s demise, it wasn’t immediately clear whether it actually helped the emerging Roman Empire to consolidate its hold during that period. A massive volcanic eruption that occurred during first century BC at Mount Okmok in Alaska might’ve contributed to “2 years of weird weather and famine” that occurred following the assassination of Julius Caesar, Science Magazine reports. According to the media outlet, while the darkening of the sky immediately after Caesar’s demise in 44 BC was likely caused by a “known, small” eruption of Mount Etna, authors of […]
On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO grossly over-stated the mortality rate of the virus. We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. Next we reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu. Then we reviewed the data in the US and found that this data supported our observation that the original coronavirus […]
Health Editor’s Note: What scientist are finding is that just because someone has had coronavirus and develops antibodies to coronavirus, those antibodies may not be permanent. It seems the more symptomatic the patient, the higher the antibody levels and the longer the antibodies can be found in the patient’s blood. There is a distinct possibility that to have COVID-19 and recover, does not make it certain that you cannot get COVID-19 again. This is a nasty business as coronavirus has defeated the common antigen/antibody mechanism. 10 Percent of Wuhan Study Patients Lose Coronavirus Antibodies Within Weeks by Kashmira Gander/Newsweek Health […]
A “system failure”, throughout the process in providing medication, at hospitals, primary care facilities and care homes, is unnecessarily costing people’s health and well-being, according to Professor Rachel Elliot who co-author a new study on medication error in England. Tens of millions of mistakes throughout the process of providing medication in England result in avoidable costs to the NHS of upwards of £98 million and at least 1700 lost lives, every year, according to a new peer-reviewed study, published in the British Medical Journal. Rachel Elliot, Professor of Health Economics at the University of Manchester, who co-authored the report Economic analysis of […]
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. When Mike Pence was running for vice president, he said, if we appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court, as Donald Trump intends to do, I believe we will see Roe v. Wade consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs. Since then, Trump has appointed two conservative justices. The arguments used against abortion often refer to the medical risks of the procedure and the guilt and loss of self-esteem suffered by women who have abortions. In order to explore what the impact of abortion is on women’s health […]
US adults in the midst of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic are the unhappiest Americans in nearly half a century, according to an ongoing longitudinal study seeking to make sense of Americans’ mental health before, during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The National Science Foundation, NORC at the University of Chicago released its first wave of 2020 COVID-19 outlook research this week and revealed that only 14% of Americans describe themselves as “very happy” – less than half of the 31% who said the same in 2018. However, this is just one aspect of the ongoing longitudinal study, which is being […]
It’s not just the pandemic lockdowns: a new study finds that young, heterosexual men in the US are having significantly less sex than they were 20 years ago. According to a study published on Friday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, young Americans are having less sex, most likely due to stress and a trend of taking longer to grow up. The study, conducted by San Diego State University (SDSU) researchers, examined levels of sexual activity among young Americans between 2000 and 2018. They looked at responses to a survey by more than 4,000 men and 5,000 women regarding sexual […]
Scientists have long been engaged in a debate on what factors impact the growth of mountains – a process quite fascinating for science, albeit lengthy, and often taking billions of years. A new study claims to have revealed the main driving force behind the growth of mountains, which regulates how big they become. According to the research published in Nature on 11 June, “megathrust shear force controls mountain height at convergent plate margins”, and tectonic forces underneath mountains determine to what dimensions they grow. Thus, for mountains located near tectonic plate collision zones, maximum mountain height is chiefly decided by an […]
Health Editor’s Note: This study offers significant proof that smoking for African Americans is a real risk for strokes. A very good reason to try to stop smoking…..Carol NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans by NIH News Release African Americans who smoke are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those who never smoked, while former smokers show a similarly lower risk as never smokers, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings from the Jackson Heart Study suggests that even after years of smoking, African […]
NIH-funded study to evaluate drugs prescribed to children with COVID-19 by NIH News Release Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have launched an effort to evaluate drugs prescribed to treat COVID-19 in infants, children and adolescents across the country. The study leverages an existing clinical trial that examines drugs that are prescribed off-label to children for a variety of medical conditions. Because many drugs have not been tested specifically for use in children, physicians will often prescribe drugs off-label to children because they lack an alternative, approved treatment. “As we search for safe and effective therapies for COVID-19, we […]
NIH-funded study to evaluate drugs prescribed to children with COVID-19 by NIH News Release Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have launched an effort to evaluate drugs prescribed to treat COVID-19 in infants, children and adolescents across the country. The study leverages an existing clinical trial that examines drugs that are prescribed off-label to children for a variety of medical conditions. Because many drugs have not been tested specifically for use in children, physicians will often prescribe drugs off-label to children because they lack an alternative, approved treatment. “As we search for safe and effective therapies for COVID-19, we […]
New Study: US Empire Is Falling But Will Not Fall Quietly June 13, 2020 New Study: US Empire Is Falling But Will Not Fall Quietly2020-06-132020-06-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/anti-trump-protest-washington-800×450-e1592068405653.jpg200px200px Above photo: March against war on Iran in Washington, DC. January, 2020. NOTE: The Rand Corporation conducted an extensive and broad study on the US’ future use of military force. This study is important for the peace movement for several reasons: They show that public opinion has an impact on what the military is able to do by “producing political gridlock” on “resourcing the defense budget [and] responding to international crises”. They anticipate this opposition to […]
Titan, which is the second-largest moon in the Solar system, is a unique celestial body. It is the only known moon in our Solar System to have a considerable amount of atmosphere and except for the Earth it is the only body that is known to have liquid rivers and seas on its surface. An international team of scientists says Titan is drifting away from Saturn 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. The fact that moons drift away from their planets is not something unusual. For example, our Moon is moving away about 1.5 inches (3.81 centimetres) each year, according […]
The news will likely add pressure on the government of Boris Johnson, which has been harshly criticized by public health experts for its slow response to the outbreak, in particular for the decision not to restrict air travel during the pandemic. Air travel has been a major factor in the spread of the coronavirus, with countries that have big air hubs being the worst affected by the disease, says a Global Peace Index report, a study conducted by The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a global think tank headquartered in Australia. “The countries most impacted are countries that are really participating […]
The novel coronavirus outbreak may have started months before it was detected in Wuhan, China in December, according to a group of researchers. But they acknowledged their stunning findings are not conclusive. Satellite images from Wuhan, as well as search engine data, point to the possibility that Covid-19 was spreading in the city as early as last August, a paper published by Harvard Medical School has argued. The team of researchers behind the study examined high-resolution satellite imagery of hospital parking lots in the Chinese city, and determined that there had been an uptick in hospital visits in late summer of […]
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, MarylandNIAID Study identifies potential approach to treat severe respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 NIH News Release What Early data from a clinical study suggest that blocking the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) protein provided clinical benefit to a small group of patients with severe COVID-19. Researchers observed that the off-label use of the cancer drug acalabrutinib, a BTK inhibitor that is approved to treat several blood cancers, was […]
The Lancet, one of the top medical journals in the world, has retracted a study questioning the safety of treating Covid-19 with anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, following controversy surrounding the research firm behind it. The retraction officially came at the request of the study’s authors, who admitted on Thursday they could “no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources.” “We deeply apologize to you, the editors and the journal readership for any embarrassment or inconvenience that this may have caused,” the authors added. The data used in the study appeared to show that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine caused higher death rates […]
Tech 15:09 GMT 31.05.2020Get short URL The 2017 interstellar guest’s hydrogen build-up would correspond to the fact that no water or carbon dioxide compounds were detected on its surface, while hydrogen ice molecules would be too small to be traced by even the most advanced optical space technologies. As per a new study soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the famously baffling comet Oumuamua originated within a mammoth molecular cloud from which it split and drifted away as if it were an iceberg. The research, first reported by the magazine Wired, assumes that despite the said molecular clouds being […]
A study into data from the UK’s National Health Service has speculated that the Champions League fixture between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid at Anfield on March 11 is linked to more than 40 additional deaths from coronavirus. Defending European champions Liverpool were eliminated from this season’s Champions League when they suffered a surprise home defeat to Atletico after extra-time to lose the tie 3-2 on aggregate, in what was the last major game to be played in England before football shuddered to a halt due to the coronavirus lockdown. Also on rt.com Dithering while Britain burned: Lockdown delay led to UK […]
A 1980s teen tech tycoon has teamed up with a one-time international carnivorous plant smuggler and a veterinarian to promote what they claim is a possible vaccine for COVID-19—but experts warn the budding research project could contribute to the flood of misinformation plaguing the coronavirus crisis. The trio co-authored a “study” suggesting existing inoculations for measles, mumps, and rubella could help protect against the ravages of COVID-19. Their report, published through an obscure environmental charity called the World Organization, is also seeking coronavirus survivors to volunteer for blood work to test their theory. They also want Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s […]
A recent Finnish study concluded that masks slow the progress of the coronavirus, but cannot entirely eliminate its spread. Overall, they were found to be beneficial, if applied properly and coupled with other precautions. Fabric masks do not protect the wearer from coronavirus, but can help protect other people, the Research Centre of Finland (VTT) has concluded. Researchers also found that a fabric mask is several times inferior to professional protective equipment when it comes to holding back the virus. Having tested polyester and cotton masks, VTT concluded that polyester is a better option than cotton due to its water-resistance and […]
D. A. Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort (1967–1977) that eradicated smallpox throughout the world. Dr. Henderson was later the Dean of John Hopkins School of Public Health. Before his death in 2016 Dr. Henderson authored a report on pandemics and the value of lockdowns. According to Dr. Henderson and a team of esteemed epidemiologists lockdowns were found to be “ineffective and destructive.” Via Andrew Bostom. TRENDING: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Calls American Soldiers ‘Bitches’ Who Are ‘Killing Innocent Children Abroad’ (VIDEO) Draconian “lockdowns” for pandemic flus were rejected as ineffective and […]
Report Summary1 – “CoVid-19 is GMO” according to ex NATO lecturer 2 – Mystery of the 2013 viral strain registered only in 2020 3 – Confirmation of Indian research on HIV inserts 4 – The unequivocal traces of the AIDS virus 5 – Mortality “calibrated” by SARS-CoV and HIV intensity?6 – Chimeric supervirus dual-use: vaccine or bio-weapon «Whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he didn’t believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. And the judgment is this: light has come into the world, but men have preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. […]
US 20:28 GMT 14.05.2020Get short URL A recent study based on New York medical system data has found that some 36.6% of patients diagnosed with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus also experienced acute kidney injury (AKI) and, in some cases, required dialysis to survive. Northwell Health, the largest health provider in New York State, issued a news release on Thursday, highlighting large-scale research examining the “alarming number” of patients who developed AKI after being hospitalized for a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. AKI is a condition that occurs in relation to a sudden episode of kidney failure or damage. Though treatable, a kidney injury […]
Herd immunity may be an unrealistic tactic for dealing with Covid-19, new research has warned, calling into question the strategy of several countries – such as Sweden – who shied away from quarantine measures in its favor. Europe is a long way from reaching the levels of exposure required for herd immunity, according to a new study published by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). Belgium tops the list, with just 6.2 percent of its population exposed to Covid-19 so far, and Sweden – with no enforced lockdown measures – is even lower down the list at just 2.5 […]
Some 24,000 Android applications have been leaking sensitive data – including mobile phone numbers and passwords – through improperly configured storage on Google’s Firebase development platform, a new study has found. The critical lack of security was uncovered by a research team at Comparitech.com, an expert group focusing on information security and privacy. The Firebase platform is the most popular storage solution for Android apps, used by almost a third of all the applications available on the Google Play Store. The researchers sampled a whopping 515,735 of the apps – around 18 percent of all the programs available on the Store […]
The Gateway Pundit was first to report back on March 16, 2020, that the WHO was pushing a completely inaccurate coronavirus mortality rate to frighten the masses. The WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, estimated on March 3, 2020 that the coronavirus mortality rate was 3.4% This was a completely inaccurate number that caused a global panic. In Switzerland children went back to school on Monday since researchers found that children rarely get virus or transmit it. Switzerland rolls back coronavirus lockdown earlier than expected. Schools to reopen since children rarely get virus or transmit it. Even better, Swiss tell those over […]
Two Year Study On Universal Basic Income Shows Success May 7, 2020 Two Year Study On Universal Basic Income Shows Success2020-05-072020-05-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/finlandubi-e1588859827395.jpg200px200px Above photo: A group of randomly selected Finns said knowing they were being paid the universal basic income relieved some of the stress in their lives. Photo: 123RF. Results of Finland’s basic income experiment: small employment effects, better perceived economic security and mental wellbeing. The basic income recipients were more satisfied with their lives and experienced less mental strain than the control group. They also had a more positive perception of their economic welfare. The interpretation of the employment effects of the experiment […]
Conditions that severely damage the respiratory system, such as Covid-19, can also cause inflammation to the part of the brain that controls breathing, US researchers have revealed. The new research, published in The Journal of Physiology, studied rats to show that treatment to areas of the brain that control respiration could play a key role in helping patients recover from lung injuries caused by illnesses such as coronavirus. In general, when the immune system battles against a pulmonary infection, it triggers an inflammatory response, but sometimes that goes too far, causing more harm to the lungs. The resulting severe respiratory conditions were […]
The CDC is going to send 15 teams of scientists from the CDC to collect blood in Atlanta this weekend.The teams will be going door-to-door asking for blood. This may not go over so well with some folks.FOX News reported: Fifteen teams of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be fanning out across Atlanta this weekend, going door-to-door to ask members of 420 randomly selected households from 30 census blocks for blood samples. The goal is to get enough vials to help scientists study how far the novel coronavirus has traveled in metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution […]
With the right management strategy, bitcoin almost always boosts the value of a mixed portfolio, according to Bitwise research – even if bought at the all-time high. Based on a test portfolio using historical data, the San Francisco-based asset manager found investors who allocated a small percentage of bitcoin to a portfolio made up of stocks and bonds would have made a notable increase to cumulative returns, even in the past three years. Bitwise said in its Wednesday report – co-written by its head of research, Matt Hougan – that a 2.5% allocation of bitcoin in January 2014, rebalanced on a quarterly basis, would […]