Doctors in central Wuhan are planning to conduct a long-term study of the effects of COVID-19 on the male reproductive system after a small study of 81 men revealed that coronavirus patients haed roughly half the normal ratio of testosterone after contracting the disease, according to SCMP. Though still preliminary and not peer reviewed, the study is the first clinical observation of the potential impact of […]
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images An internet conspiracy theory about the coronavirus has apparently gained enough traction for researchers to feel the need to conduct a study on it, and that study has concluded that Covid-19 was not in fact concocted in a laboratory as a bioweapon. According to ABC News, researchers were alarmed enough by the din from conspiracy theorists promoting the idea that the […]
A new whitepaper shows that the “fast charging” feature of many Tesla charging stations along the nation’s highways may actually be doing more harm than good. These stations can subject batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can then lead them to crack, leak and lose their storage capacity, according to Science 2.0. Instead, the industry should be seeking out ways to charge at lower […]
Tech 22:07 GMT 24.03.2020Get short URL The disc of the Milky Way galaxy, a well-known image, is some 260,000 light years across, although much of the actual diameter of our home galaxy is made up of unobservable dark matter, only detectable through observations made of gravitational effects on surrounding objects. The size of the Milky Way galaxy has been extended by an additional 1.9 million light […]
An analysis of coronavirus patients’ voices could yield a “vocal fingerprint” to help detect COVID-19 symptoms in others and prioritise testing and treatment, the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. Starting this week, an Israeli startup company working with hospitals and academic institutions will sample voices of confirmed coronavirus patients through a mobile application in a research project led by the ministry. “These voice samples will […]
It’s the malaria drug everyone from President Trump to Elon Musk is hoping can help make a difference in the fight against coronavirus. The problem? There’s just not enough data yet to say for certain whether hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID-19. Fortunately, researchers at the University of Minnesota have just launched what could be one of the biggest human trials to see whether or not hydroxychloroquine […]
Fewer than 1 percent of Australians paid for consumer goods with cryptocurrency in 2019, according to a study published Thursday by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia’s central bank. Revealed in RBA’s triennial Consumer Payments Survey (CPS), the findings from about 1,100 respondents shows that while consumers are largely embracing digital and alternative payment methods over cash, they’re just not paying in crypto. RBA conducted […]
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A scientific study has found that had China acted sooner to combat the spread of their coronavirus, then the spread could have been almost entirely avoided, and it would not have become a global pandemic. Research out of the University of Southampton in the UK, based on world population mapping funded primarily by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discovered “that if […]
Society 20:33 GMT 17.03.2020Get short URL A preliminary study of COVID-19 patients in China suggests that those with blood type A may be more vulnerable to the infection than people of other blood types. In the study, medical researchers analyzed the blood groups of more than 2,000 patients infected with the coronavirus in the cities of Wuhan and Shenzhen. They found that type-A patients had higher […]
A low-level nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan could wipe out large swaths of the world’s food supply, igniting cataclysmic fires that blot out the sun in a decade-long nuclear winter, according to new research. Estimated to hold about 150 warheads each, India and Pakistan’s combined arsenals make up only a fraction of the worldwide stockpile – about 14,000-strong at present – but even a “limited” […]
A Case Study Of Corporate Media Disinformation By Stansfield Smith, Dissident Voice. March 15, 2020 A Case Study Of Corporate Media Disinformation2020-03-152020-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/havana-e1584282451865.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Jazziz.com. Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian “election interference,” on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China’s Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media […]
Aerosolized coronavirus can hang in the air for at least 30 minutes and travel up to 14 feet – approximately twice the “safe distance” recommended by health officials, according to SCMP. The study, conducted by a team of Chinese government epidemiologists from Hunan province, also found that the virus can survive for days on a surface where respiratory droplets land. The length of time it lasts […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Over the past week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 outside of China more than tripled once again. Hopefully it is extremely unlikely that such a rapid growth rate will continue, because if it does, there will be more than a million confirmed cases outside of China just a month from now. I […]
Hot on the heels of calling live-in-girlfriends “free prostitutes,” Russia’s least politically correct clergyman, Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, is in no mood to stop making controversial comments. The notorious cleric has once again come under fire — this time for questioning the need to send girls to school. “It is more important to teach a seven-year-old girl how to look after a child, and not to read […]
A pair of Harvard professors have proposed traveling the universe at relativistic speeds close to the speed of light by exploiting the existing natural phenomena that are supernovas. Boffins Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb suggest that humanity could, theoretically at least, one day create highly advanced, human-engineered spacecraft that harness the awesome power of these explosions to traverse the universe like never before. Much like old-school […]
A team of physicists in the US believe they may have discovered the first extraterrestrial protein known to man, within a meteorite that fell to Earth some three decades ago. If verified, the find – which has yet to be peer reviewed – would be the latest in a series of milestones bringing us closer to discovering extraterrestrial life. Ribose, a type of sugar found in […]
Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, Enjoying a small bit of booze on a daily basis could actually help boost your life-span to a healthy 90 years of age, researchers have found. The study, spearheaded by a team of scientists at Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, discovered that men and women who indulge in a daily drink are 40 percent more likely to reach their 90th […]
Tech 11:31 GMT 29.02.2020Get short URL The Toba super-eruption roughly 74,000 years ago was one of the most colossal that ancient man experienced. The so-called Toba catastrophe theory claims the event resulted in extreme cooling and triggered a glacial period that left humans on the brink of extinction. A new study claims that stone tools discovered in Dhaba, north-central India, suggest that ancient humans were able […]
A new study by Oren Cass at the Manhattan Institute confirms that a 52 week year just doesn’t cut it for the average American worker looking to simply make a “middle-class” life for themselves. For women, the news is even worse: it requires 66 weeks to earn a middle class lifestyle. These figures compare wildly to 1985, when males at the median weekly wage needed to […]
A new MIT study has found no evidence of fraud in Bolivia’s 2019 election, despite allegations of serious irregularities by the Organization of American States (OAS), which led to the ousting of Evo Morales in a military coup. John Curiel and Jack R Williams examined the OAS’s report and published their findings in the Washington Post on Thursday. “As specialists in election integrity, we find that […]
With the confirmed number of coronavirus cases in Italy now nearing 400, including 12 deaths, and Germany, France and Spain now witnessing a growing caseload, a growing number of American universities are now canceling their study abroad programs due to Covid-19 fears. Fox News reports that at least seven universities have suspended programs in Italy alone — with more schools expected to take the drastic action. In many cases […]
In the US, gift cards are widely seen as a way to give somebody a gift that’s ever-so-slightly more thoughtful than simply giving them an envelope full of cash. They’re also increasingly an option for consumers to redeem credit card rewards. Unfortunately, many American adults also misplace or forget about the plastic gifts, essentially handing the seller free money. Over the past couple of decades, American […]
Extreme weather could cause a major economic recession around the globe, but we are still underestimating those risks, new research warns. “If the market doesn’t do a better job of accounting for climate, we could have a recession, the likes of which we’ve never seen before,” said Paul Griffin, an accounting professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, who authored “Energy Finance Must Account […]
The dumbing down of America was explained in the 2006 movie Idiocracy, where Private Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson), is the definition of an “average American,” takes part in a top-secret hibernation program via the Pentagon, wakes up five centuries later to only discovery just how dumb society has become. Bauers wakes up in the year 2500, and he’s immediately declared the smartest person in the world. […]