WEIRD SCIENCE
Attenborough told the audience at COP24 that climate change is “our greatest threat in thousands of years.” By Stephen Johnson – David Attenborough spoke recently at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known …
By Rich Haridy – A new study suggests eating organic food may reduce a person’s cancer risk by up to 25 percent. (Credit: urban_light/Depositphotos). A new epidemiological study published in the prestigious journal JAMA Internal Medicine has found that people who eat a high …
Researchers find an unlikely source for the next superfood. By Paul Ratner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach. What’s four times more nutritious than cow’s milk and could be key in feeding our ever-expanding population? Chances are, your guess was not cockroach milk. But that’s exactly the …
For an affluent Western country, the United States has an usually high proportion of its people living in warm-to-tropical climates, which are breeding grounds for parasites. Daphne Muller – Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites Schistosomiasis and toxoplasmosis may sound like something you would pick up …
Moving from HOT to HAT, a dazzling new acoustic technology. By Robby Berman – Scientists announce the ability to simultaneously manipulate individual levitated objects. Using high-frequency sound waves may provide a safer alternative to laser microsurgery. Video of the research looks like a …
Humans evolved to live in the cold through a number of environmental and genetic factors. By Mike Colagrossi – According to some relatively new research, many of our early human cousins preceded Homo sapien migrations north by hundreds of thousands or even millions …
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank. Evan Fleischer – David Vaughan at the Mote Laboratory is growing coral 40 times faster than in the wild. It typically takes coral 25 to 75 years …
Nick Lavars – A new study has found microplastics in the guts of 102 sea turtles. (Credit: lilithlita/Depositphotos). There remains a lot we don’t know about the whereabouts of the all the plastic waste that washes into the ocean each year, but …
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.” By Robby Berman – A stream of galactic debris is hurtling at us, pulling dark matter along with it It’s traveling so quickly it’s been described as a hurricane of dark matter Scientists are …
Domestic nuclear testing wreaked havoc on thousands of families. By Matthew Davis – Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001 – Wikipedia. Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands. But new research shows that domestic U.S. nuclear tests likely killed more. The new research tracked …
