Report From The COVID Front Lines (w/Barbara McLean, RN, NP-BC, CCRN)

This is a profound discussion,do watch.

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Oil Price Crash Opens A Window Of Opportunity For Renewables

Just a month ago, companies and investors had a financial incentive to continue investing in new oil and gas projects despite the societal and environmentalist backlash against fossil fuels. Not anymore. In just a couple of weeks, the oil price crash made investments in renewable energy starting to look more attractive. Or at least as attractive as investment in oil and gas.

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The perfect virus: two gene tweaks that turned COVID-19 into a killer

We thought we had bigger things to worry about than Chinese bat coronaviruses. It is now clear we made a massive mistake.

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Why did evolution create a chicken that lays so many unfertilized eggs when that is so wasteful?

Natural evolution did not create a chicken that lays so many unfertilized eggs. Human engineering created such chickens. You could call the process...

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Uranus is leaking gas

It’s been several decades since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft reached the chilly planet Uranus. The probe cruised past the frigid world at a distance of around 50,000 miles, sending back a wealth of data for scientists to dig through. Now, 34 years after it visited Uranus, the data that Voyager 2 sent back has revealed something entirely new.

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Neanderthals Feasted on Seafood, Seabirds, Perhaps Even Dolphins

Scientists say that a discovery in a seaside Portuguese cave further challenges popular images of Neanderthals as meat-eating brutes.

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People built bone circles at the edge of ice sheets, and we don’t know why

As the last Ice Age tightened its hold on Europe, a group of people living near the Don River piled dozens of mammoth bones into a 12.5m (30ft) wide circle. They may have lived in the shelter of the mammoth bones for a while, huddling around fragrant fires of conifer wood and mammoth bone and making stone tools. But the traces they left are so light that it seems they didn’t stay long—or maybe they only visited occasionally.

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New study identifies a psychological factor linked to Trump supporters' vindictiveness

The desire to matter and feel significant among Donald Trump supporters is associated with support for hostile and vindictive actions against the ...

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If Pluto has a subsurface ocean, it may be old and deep

New analyses of images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that Pluto may have had a sea beneath its icy shell for roughly 4.5 billion years.

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Why stargazing is the perfect spiritual practice during the Coronavirus lockdown

If nothing else, the global pandemic of the Coronavirus has slowed the world down and in effect, our minds too. In our socially-distanced states, we are bound to be thinking more about what we are doing in our lives, where we are heading, and what our futures will entail, both collectively as a planet and as individuals.

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How a starfish egg is like a quantum system

Some cellular proteins move across a cell’s membrane in rippling waves, displaying patterns of turbulence that resemble those seen throughout the physical world. When bound to a cell membrane, the signalling protein Rho-GTP plays a part in the multistep process that leads a cell to divide. Proteins similar to Rho-GTP are found in a vast number of organisms, including vertebrates.

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Uranus, No Joke, Is Leaking Gas

It had a big lunch.

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Scientists find bug that feasts on toxic plastic

A bacterium that feeds on toxic plastic has been discovered by scientists. The bug not only breaks the plastic down but uses it as food to power the process. The bacterium, which was found at a waste site where plastic had been dumped, is the first that is known to attack polyurethane. Millions of tonnes of the plastic is produced every year to use in items such as sports shoes, nappies, kitchen sponges and as foam insulation, but it is mostly sent to landfill because it it too tough to recycle.

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Smarter individuals engage in more prosocial behavior in daily life, study finds

Prosocial behavior was linked to intelligence by a new study published in Intelligence. It was found that highly intelligent people are more likely to behave in ways that contribute to the welfare of others due to higher levels of empathy and developed moral identity.

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New Oxford study suggests millions of people may have already built up coronavirus immunity

A model predicting the progression of the novel coronavirus pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments' decisions to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

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This primeval worm may be the ancestor of all animals

Like humans, it had a butt, a head and two symmetrical sides. It's practically family.

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The RIGHT Way To End This

ZDOGG MD. explores ways to deal with Covid19.

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Just Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry, Physicists Find

Not a single system of three moving objects, big or small, planets or black holes, can escape the direction of time.

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Welcome to the Virosphere

SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the pandemic, belongs to one of 6,828 named species of virus. Hundreds of thousands more species are known, with perhaps trillions waiting to be found.

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Want to be taller? Radical surgery permanently extends your legs.

"If you feel unconfident, I can change that. Sometimes one or two inches makes a world of difference."

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The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say

Terrifying though the coronavirus may be, it can be turned back. China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated that, with furious efforts, the contagion can be brought to heel. Whether they can keep it suppressed remains to be seen. But for the United States to repeat their successes will take extraordinary levels of coordination and money from the country’s leaders, and extraordinary levels of trust and cooperation from citizens. It will also require international partnerships in an interconnected world. There is a chance to stop the coronavirus. This contagion has a weakness.

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Mongolia abandons Soviet past by restoring alphabet

Mongolia has announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted under the Soviets as it moves away from Russian influence.

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As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful "ghost flights"

If you're reading this article, you probably know that flying is one of the most carbon-intensive actions an individual can take in a given year. Air travel normally accounts for approximately 2.4 percent of the world's carbon pollution. The novel coronavirus, which has temporarily flatlined flying demand worldwide, has the potential to reduce aviation emissions this year.

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New York’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant Is Closing

The community is fearful of what will happen once it shutters.

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What Is Meat’s Role In Antibiotic Resistance?

Professor Dame Sally Davies, England’s chief medical officer is sounding the alarm on antibiotic resistance, claiming it could kill ten million people per year, effectively wiping out humanity. Plastic pollution and antibiotic use in animal agriculture could be to blame. But what is antibiotic resistance and what role does meat play in it?

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Coronavirus deals blow to NASA's 2024 return-to-moon plan

The coronavirus has dealt a blow to NASA's plan to return Americans to the ...

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Researchers find key to keep working memory working

Yale researchers’ discovery of a key molecule in the brain could lead to potential treatments for neurocognitive disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.

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Iron is everywhere in Earth's vicinity, suggest two decades of Cluster data

Using over 18 years of data from ESA's Cluster mission, scientists have mapped the heavy metals in the space surrounding Earth, finding an unexpected distribution and prevalence of iron and shedding light on the composition of our cosmic environment.

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Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn't a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics

Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.

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How to spot bogus science stories and read the news like a scientist

From coronavirus to climate change, it's easy to be misled by some reporting.

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Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought

If you want to feel like there’s hope for humanity instead of feeling like we’re about to snowball into terribleness as a species, look at these examples.

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Scientists "Firmly Determine" That SARS-CoV-2 Was Not Engineered

The COVID-19 outbreak caused by the spread of the virus SARS-CoV-2 is a product of natural evolution, scientists conclude in a correspondence piece published in Nature Medicine .

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What causes an ice age to end?

New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth's axis was approaching higher values.

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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past 40 years

A new study led by the University of Washington finds dramatic increases in the abundance of a worm that can be transmitted to humans who eat raw or undercooked seafood. Its 283-fold increase in abundance since the 1970s could have implications for the health of humans and marine mammals, which both can inadvertently eat the worm.

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NASA just told its entire staff to work from home

NASA has made the decision to send all of its staff in centers across the country home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The decision comes in the wake of multiple NASA facilities being forced into mandatory work-from-home status after staff members tested positive for COVID-19.

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66-million-year-old ‘wonderchicken’ offers lesson in resilience

When Daniel Field first saw it, his shouts echoed down the hall. “That moment was probably the most shocking moment of my life, certainly the most shocking moment of my scientific career,” he says. The chunk of rock didn’t look like much. It was small and uninspiring, about the size of a deck of cards, says Dr. Field, a paleontologist at the University of Cambridge. But fragments of birdlike bone poked out of it, and it was from the last days of the dinosaurs, so it bore further scrutiny.

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Gabe Newell on Brain-computer Interfaces: 'We're way closer to The Matrix than people realize'

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell’s most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI).

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NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel

NASA’s InSight lander, which is currently on the surface of Mars, has faced some unexpected problems during its mission to explore and study the planet. Namely, a digging probe that was built to burrow beneath the surface like a jackhammer got stuck because Mars’ soil is clumpier than scientists expected, Popular Science reports. After a few failed attempts to get it out, NASA had to get a bit creative. Ultimately, it freed the probe up by giving it a solid thwack with InSight’s shovel.

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Study defies claims that Jupiter's Great Red Spot may be dying

This storm is thick.

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New coronavirus finger-prick test 'can detect infection in 15 minutes'

A UK based laboratory claims it has developed a finger-prick testing kit that can detect Covid-19 infection in just 15 minutes. AlphaBiolabs told the Liverpool Echo that the test can be performed by an individual or company health professional, and will show whether a person has the coronavirus or not.

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The Strange Link Between Pandemics and Psychosis

Scientists are looking more closely at how viruses and infections could influence our minds.

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All of the Museum of the Bible's Dead Sea Scrolls Are Fake, Report Finds

In 2009, Hobby Lobby president Steve Green began acquiring a collection of 16 Dead Sea Scrolls for his Museum of the Bible, a sprawling institution in Washington, D.C. that seeks to provide “an immersive and personalized experience with the Bible, and its ongoing impact on the world around us.”

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Asteroid Could Cause Atmospheric Explosion If It Gets Too Close

An asteroid following an Earth-intersecting orbit is approaching. Based on the data collected by NASA, the asteroid is big enough to create a violent explosion in the atmosphere if it collides with the planet.

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Is your child getting enough sleep?

There are plenty of good reasons to make sure children get enough sleep, but their parents’ evening peace is nowhere near the most important one. “If we make sure our children get enough sleep, it can help protect them from mental health problems,” says Bror M. Ranum, a fellow at NTNU’s Department of Psychology.

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Discovered: 25,000-year-old structure made from the bones of an Ice Age beast

Under layers of dirt, pinpricked with animal burrows and shrubs, archeologists found a circle of mammoth bones — evidence of a dwelling built between 25,063 to 24,490 years ago.

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Brain wave patterns show just how deep our biases run

In a new study, scientists uncovered the deepest roots of bias in the brain.

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Rubber ‘leaves’ reveal the physics of the floating lotus

Scientists explore why some lotus leaves lie smooth and flat, but others are deeply ruffled.

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Study finds skipping breakfast is linked to a greater risk of depressive symptoms

Workers who omit breakfast show a heightened risk of depressive symptoms, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.

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Over 24,000 coronavirus research papers are now available in one place

The data set aims to accelerate scientific research that could fight the Covid-19 pandemic.

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For 75 Years, The US Had an 'Endless Frontier' of Science. Now It's Coming to an End

The US has been the most productive country for science and technology for decades. Many of the basic policy tenets that supported American prowess date back 75 years, to a document called Science: The Endless Frontier.

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