duskdiverEnvironment A Depressing New Type of Pollution Has Started Showing Up on Shoreline RocksScienceAlert - DAVID NIELD You might think that plastic pollution on land and sea is old news by now, but it's taken on a new form we've only just noticed: Researchers have …
duskdiverCrystals Alien Crystals Unlike Any Found on Earth Might Encrust The Edges of Titan's LakesScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR Scientists have recreated Titan-like conditions in a lab, and found that organic molecules from Titan's atmosphere could be forming rings of alien …
duskdiverHarvard Harvard Psychologists Reveal the Real Reason We're All So DistractedInc Magazine - Nate KlempResearch reveals that "mind wandering" is often the hidden source of distraction. Here are 3 ways to shift back to being fully present and engaged. When it comes to how to be more focused and less distracted,
duskdiverPrimates These monkeys are 3,000 years into their own 'Stone Age'National Geographic - Michael GreshkoWhile capuchins won't use tools like us any time soon, the species now “has its own individual archaeological record,” scientists report. For capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park,
duskdiverCement Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the WorldBloomberg - Vanessa Dezem The most astonishing thing about cement is how much air pollution it produces. Manufacturing the stone-like building material is responsible for 7% of …
duskdiverNebulas Crab Nebula Has Hit Earth with Highest-Energy Light Ever Recordedfuturism.com - Kristin Houser The Tibet Air Shower Array is located about five kilometers (3.1 miles) above sea level, and this high altitude makes it an ideal spot to gather data …
duskdiverScience Hand-Reared Monarch Butterflies Don't MigrateThe Atlantic - Ed YongA scientist hoped commercially raised butterflies would be identical to their wild counterparts, but found their navigation abilities varied. Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies engage in one nature’s
duskdiverBlack Holes We could be living in a black hole and life just keeps getting more confusingmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Most people imagine black holes to be gigantic monsters hellbent on swallowing up anything unlucky enough to come anywhere near them. But some …
duskdiverPersonality The ‘light triad’ that can make you a good personBBC Future - Kelly OakesThe “dark triad” makes us more creative but also more likely to cheat. It turns out there is an opposite make-up – the “light triad” – that could explain why some of us are naturally good. Do you tend
duskdiverGalaxies Meet The Largest X-Ray Jet In The UniverseForbes - Ethan SiegelThe Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Pictor A galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, and material falling onto the black hole is driving an enormous beam, or jet,
duskdiverTechnology A vaccine for Alzheimer's is on the verge of becoming a realityWired UK - Stephen Armstrong In the autumn of 2010, Mei Mei Hu, a management consultant for McKinsey in New York, received an unexpected invitation from her mother, Chang Yi …
duskdiverPopulation The Data Lie, And It Makes Evidence-Based Decisions Harder Than You ThinkForbes - Paul M. SutterIf there’s one thing you need to know about data, it lies. A lot. Science is a game of listening to the whispers of mother nature. Sometimes those whispers are relatively easy to hear (for example, objects
duskdiver Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has diedCNN - By Elizabeth Elkin and Saeed Ahmed, CNN(CNN) — Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language and showed the world what great apes can do, has died. She died Tuesday in her sleep at age 46, The Gorilla Foundation said in a statement. "Koko touched
duskdiverUniversity of Chicago The race to develop quantum technology is getting crowdedpbs.org - Christopher Booker If you think back to high school, you may remember some of the laws of classical physics, like Newton's third law of motion. "For every action, there …
duskdiverWhaling Explainer: What's behind Japan's support of whaling?Reuters - Elaine LiesTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has for decades been steadfastly defiant about hunting whales despite widespread anger, including from key allies like the United States. FILE PHOTO : Captured short-finned pilot
duskdiverHumanity Your Brain Might Be Taking Tiny Naps Throughout The Day Without You RealisingScienceAlert - IVAN DE LUCE, BUSINESS INSIDER If you've ever felt your eyelids droop for just a fraction of a second during some mundane task — like staring at a computer screen or driving down …
duskdiverOceans Scientists discover sea of fresh water under the oceanQuartz - Michael J. CorenThousands of years ago, glaciers covered much of the planet. Oceans receded as water froze in massive sheets of ice blanketing the North American continent. As the ice age ended, glaciers melted. Massive
duskdiverColorado Colorado got almost 2 feet of snow on the first day of summerCNN - By Leah Asmelash and Jay Croft, CNN(CNN) — Summer solstice, you say? Nearly July? Judging from the almost 2 feet of snow in Colorado, Mother Nature doesn't seem to care. Snow began to fall Friday just west of Denver at elevations above
duskdiverBack Pain Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout hornsArs Technica - Beth Mole There’s no data to suggest an increased prevalence of these bone spurs In their study, Shahar and Sayers pulled pre-existing X-ray images from 1,200 …
duskdiverMosquitoes Why Do Some People Always Get Bitten by Mosquitoes, While Others Don't?Live Science - Grant Currin Some people can sit outside all summer long and not suffer from mosquito bites. Others turn into an itchy mess despite bathing in DEET and never …
duskdiverPlay buttonTechnology Cheating Death: Inside the Cryonics Institute, Where Your Body Is Frozen With Hopes of RevivalThe Atlantic - Emily BuderUntil the day he died, in 2011, Robert Ettinger hoped humanity would figure out a way to cheat death. Today, his body is stored in a cryonic vessel filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to –196 degrees
duskdiverPsychology Psychology Around the Net: June 22, 2019psychcentral.com - Alicia Sparks Grab of cup of joe or your kick-back beverage of choice and dive into this week’s Psychology Around the Net which covers the psychology of screen …
duskdiverPlay buttonChernobyl Why Didn't Chernobyl Kill All the Plants?realclearscience.com - Stuart Thompson Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of …
duskdiverGoogle Chrome A Tech Expert Says Google Chrome Has Become Spy SoftwareScienceAlert - GEOFFREY A. FOWLER, THE WASHINGTON POST You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google …
duskdiverVaccines These dogs are getting a cancer vaccine. If it works, humans could be nextCNN - Bronte Lord and Jacque Smith, CNN(CNN) — If you ask most experts in the cancer community, creating a wide-ranging vaccine that prevents tumors like we prevent infectious diseases is damn near impossible. The idea may be tantalizing, study
duskdiverMental Health An 8-hour work week could be ideal for mental healthMedical News Today - By Maria Cohut How many paid hours per week does a person need to work to maintain good mental health? That is the question a new study aimed to answer, and the …
duskdiverBlack Holes Harvard Scientists Think The Black Hole Could Be The Center Of LifeMashable - Afiya QureshiEver since black holes were found to be existing in the cosmos, they have only been thought of as death pits, sucking in matter. Scientists have always centered their studies around stars when it comes
duskdiverVaccines Vaccines: Do they wear out? And other questions answeredBBC NewsVaccines have saved tens of millions of lives in the past century, yet a huge worldwide study revealed there is a growing hesitancy against vaccination. Experts warn public mistrust of vaccines means world
duskdiverPlay buttonChernobyl Ten times the Chernobyl television series lets artistic licence get in the way of factsThe Conversation UK - Jim Smith Audiences have been gripped by Chernobyl, the HBO/Sky series that charts the events and aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster of …
