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Once we have a concept, it eventually gets etched in stone, in the stonework of our consciousness. No one gives up their ideas easily, no matter what those ideas are. So people identified with concepts end up hating change because they are into the a
Within weeks, the disease had spread across Europe into the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, France and across the English Channel to the British Isles. When a Miles Joseph Berkeley of England received infected leaf samples from a friend in
According to a 2011 study published in the journal Advances in Pharmacological Sciences, the polysaccharide compounds in the Agaricus blazei Murill mushroom are not only powerful anti-inflammatory agents, but they're also immune stimulators. This m
Scientists have just had a major solar panels efficiency breakthrough, and it could mean a big change for the future of renewable energy. Visit https://brilliant.org/undecided to sign up for free. And also, the first 200 people will get 20% off their
When Fu-Shuang Li, a biochemist and research scientist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, needed some pollen for his research, he knew just where to go. Every spring, the pitch pine trees ringing Walden Pond in Concord release cl
"Few species evoke the awe and wonder that the migratory monarch butterfly commands," Sean T. O'Brien, who leads the nonprofit conservation group Nature Serve, says in a statement. "While efforts to protect this species are encouraging, much
"Few species evoke the awe and wonder that the migratory monarch butterfly commands," Sean T. O'Brien, who leads the nonprofit conservation group Nature Serve, says in a statement. "While efforts to protect this species are encouraging, much
In December of 2021 and January of 2022, two teams of physicists, one an international collaboration including researchers from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna and the Southern University of Science and Technology i
To find out how and why the gophers construct large tunnels on their plant-based diets, scientists at the University of Florida dug trenches around three gopher tunnel sections in a Gainesville pasture and placed oil barrels at each trench to keep th
While humanity reckons with many problems here on Earth ?" war, political turmoil, an ongoing pandemic, all alongside the energy, climate, and water crises ?" it's important to remember just how relentless the Universe can be. While earthquakes
So far we've discussed common sense definitions of stupidity. It tends to be described as a lack of something - either cognitive horsepower ('intelligence'), or knowledge, or thinking. This seems inadequate. Defining it only as an absence of br
That's what Wang and his team tried to figure out in a series of experiments described in a new study published in today's edition of Cell. They blew air over two cohorts of mice ?" one infected with either dengue or Zika, the other not ?" and th
General anesthesia redefined surgery and medicine, but over a century later it still carries significant risks. Too much sedation can lead to neurocognitive disorders and may even shorten lifespan; too little can lead to traumatic and painful wakeful
Problem: Our spines are a mess. It's a wonder we can even walk, says Bruce Latimer, director of the Center for Human Origins at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. When our ancestors walked on all fours, their spines arched, like a bow,
This provides remarkable insight on the process of leaf formation and photosynthesis. Way more to it than expected. Yet it has all been front of us forever and these are new insights.. All good stuff..
Inside a normal person's head, there is a left brain, right brain, as well as cerebrospinal fluid. Cerebrospinal fluid is a transparent fluid that circulates around the cerebrum and spine. But for some people, their cerebrospinal fluid does not cir
Stellar mass black holes, the ones formed by collapsing stars, are thought to be the most abundant. Occasionally they get trapped in each other's gravitational pull and merge in a process of spectacular cosmic violence. It was through such a "bin
Whenever one observer moves through the Universe relative to another, the observer-in-motion will experience time dilation: where their clocks run slower relative to the observer-at-rest. Based on this, Einstein suggested that we could make use of tw
Livingston, now professor emeritus at Indiana University, wondered whether the homogenizing effect of moving into four dimensions applies to all such pairs of Seifert surfaces, or whether there are some that hold on to their uniqueness. The new wo
Now, in a paper published in Neuron in January, neuroscientists in Nathalie Rochefort's lab at the University of Edinburgh have revealed an energy-saving strategy in the visual systems of mice. They found that when mice were deprived of sufficient
It was then that she stumbled across clinical trials which had previously harnessed a patient's immune system to fight off their cancer She was also offered the treatment at Providence Cancer Institute in Oregon Afterwards tumors in her lungs sh
The seagrass claims the record pretty comfortably, in terms of area at least. The previous record holder for largest plant was an aspen tree in Utah nicknamed Pando, which has cloned itself into a similar colony connected by one root system. Pando co
I wasn't sure why the squid were that close to the surface. Most squid, I would learn, live in the ocean column known as the mesopelagic, the "Twilight Zone." It starts roughly 600 feet below the surface and goes down into darker waters, about
A decade later, Dr. Robert Petersdorf, an internationally renowned expert in infectious disease, also worried over the direction modern medicine was headed. In 1989, Petersdorf stated, "We can no longer tolerate dishonesty, cheating, fraud and conf
This unique heavy-lift UAV out of Edinburgh promises to obliterate the power and range of electric drones using a Rotax engine and bent-axis hydraulic motors similar to those used on huge tree harvesters. It's now lifting 95 kg (210 lb) in testing.
The entire airline industry needs to wean itself off jet fuel over the next few decades - but it's still buying enormously expensive jet aircraft that are expected to keep bringing home the bacon for more than 20 years.
The next step was to investigate how marijuana could be increasing a person's risk of heart attack. Focusing particularly on THC, the researchers discovered the cannabinoid did promote inflammation in human endothelial cells grown in the lab. Infla
You may have heard of hydrogen powered HICEV and FCEV vehicles. But how do hydrogen cars work?
A private company that released genetically modified mosquitoes into the open air of the Florida Keys last spring says the experiment was a success, reports Emily Waltz for Nature. Oxitec, a United Kingdom-based biotech firm initially founded at Oxfo
Physics students learn the speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction.
