AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarThese Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators EmergedWIRED - David KushnerJane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarFlorida's manatees are addicted to power plants. Scientists are weaning them offverified_publisherBBC Future - Lucy SherriffPollution has driven Florida's manatees from warm springs to power plants. As the state switches to renewable energy, their new manmade homes are disappearing
AvatarMarisa RomanelliFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAn eclipse for everyone – how visually impaired students can ‘get a feel for’ eclipsestheconversation.com - Cassandra Runyon and David HurdMany people in the U.S. will have an opportunity to witness nearly four minutes of a total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024, as it moves from …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatar‘We actually don’t know much’: the scientists trying to close the knowledge gap in trans healthcareverified_publisherThe Guardian - Nicola DavisResearchers are running trials on how hormone therapies affect trans people that will also benefit healthcare for the wider population
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarA Superconductor Found in Nature Has Rocked the Scientific Worldverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Caroline DelbertThe quest for boundless energy takes an electrifying turn with this magic mineral. Scientists have identified the first unconventional superconductor that you can find in nature. • Conventional superconductors follow a specific, well known paradigm called BCS. • Miassite does occur naturally, but this …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarJimmy Carter Killed This Technology 50 Years Ago. Congress Is About To Fund Its Revival.HuffPost - Alexander C. KaufmanThe spending bill the House just passed contains $10 million for recycling nuclear waste. The nuclear waste sitting at power plants across the United States contains enough energy to power the country for more than 100 years. But recycling spent uranium fuel was banned in 1977 because President …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarTiny Worms Living Near Chernobyl Have Evolved a Remarkable New Talentverified_publisherScienceAlert - Michelle StarrMicroscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to do so completely free …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA Utah Cleft Palate Team Says Its Approach Is Innovative. Others See a Pattern of Unnecessary Surgeries on Children.propublica.org - Megan RoseAt Primary Children’s Hospital in Utah, pediatric surgeons are taking controversial risks with how they care for kids with cleft lip and palate. …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarNo, overwintering turtles don’t breathe through their butts: Getting to the bottom of a popular misconceptionThe Conversation Canada - Grégory BultéOn a crisp February day, a filmmaker and I were walking across the 45-centimetre-thick ice covering Opinicon Lake, a small lake in eastern Ontario. …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo‘Ethics is not a checkbox exercise.’ Bioinformatician Yves Moreau reacts to mass retraction of papers from Chinascience.org - Dennis NormileLast week, bioinformatician Yves Moreau of KU Leuven scored an important victory: The journal Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine retracted 18 …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a daytheconversation.com - Christian WolfScientists have no reported evidence of the true conditions in Hell, perhaps because no one has ever returned to tell the tale. Hell has been …
AvatarMarisa RomanelliAvatarAvatarDebate simmers over when doctors should declare brain deathverified_publisherNPR - Rob SteinBenjamin Franklin famously wrote: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." While that may still be true, there's a controversy simmering today about one of the ways doctors declare people to be dead. The debate is focused on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a …