One in five Americans is diagnosed with depression says CDC—but the spike varies state by state, with a big portion located in Appalachia. ( gizmodo.com )
the actual study, for the curious: National, State-Level, and County-Level Prevalence Estimates of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Self-Reporting a Lifetime Diagnosis of Depression — United States, 2020 by Lee B, Wang Y, Carlson SA, et al.
Onshore algae farms could feed the world sustainably ( news.cornell.edu )
I'd be down for some algae burgers if it helps the planet 🌿🍔
We’ve pumped so much groundwater that we’ve nudged the Earth's spin ( news.agu.org )
!!!...
[Arxiv Preprint] Betelgeuse to go supernova in in decades (not centuries) ( arxiv.org )
[Archeology] The sword is so well preserved "that it almost still shines," German experts rave about the spectacular piece. ( beehaw.org )
Archaeologists in Bavaria made a rare find last week: during excavations in the Swabian town of Nördlingen, experts discovered a bronze sword that is more than 3,000 years old, the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments announced Wednesday. This is so well preserved, "that it almost still shines"....
People who use ‘smart drugs’ worse at complex tasks, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
I was always kind of skeptical of the type of person that swears Ritalin got them to the finals, bit happy there is now some evidedence as well....
Satellites Keep Photobombing Space Images. Astronomers Need a Fix ( www.wired.com )
Evidence of 1-Billion-Year-Old 'Lost World' of Microbes Discovered Beneath Australian Outback ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Should we terraform Mars? ( en.wikipedia.org )
If so, this should not preclude us from cleaning up our own planet first!
New flying gecko species reveals hidden biodiversity of northern India ( phys.org )
Study in mice links heat-damaged DNA in food to possible genetic risks ( phys.org )
What field do you work in?
I've been curious how many working researchers we've got in this community, and what you all do!...
Crocodiles and gharials are getting bizarre orange 'tans' in Nepal. Here's why. ( www.livescience.com )
Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life ( www.popularmechanics.com )
Corporations are planning to mine the deep ocean where 5,000 new species were just discovered ( www.salon.com )
Why is China drilling down to 10,000 meters—one of the deepest holes in the world? ( qz.com )
Too smart for their own good: Russia is waging a war against its own scientists ( web.archive.org )
An increasing number of high-calibre researchers are being accused of treason in today’s Russia, mostly without official charges, landing behind bars for decades. And the main beneficiary of their imprisonment is the Federal Security Service (FSB), which deprives them not only of their freedom and ability to work, but...
PBS Eons: It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal ( www.youtube.com )
"A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?"
Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein ( arstechnica.com )
Engineers re-created one of Leonardo’s experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus,...
Over-40s on antibiotics ‘nearly 50 per cent more likely to develop Crohn’s disease’. Researchers followed more than six million people in Denmark for more than 10 years and found that taking antibi... ( gut.bmj.com )
11 Scientific Advancements Inspired by Sci-Fi Stories: Including how the TASER got its Name ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
Ideas can come from all sorts of places, and inspiration can hit in a flash—think of Archimedes supposedly yelling “Eureka! Eureka!” in the bath when he realized that irregular items could be accurately measured through water displacement. But sometimes, it’s fiction, not reality, that provides the spark of inspiration....
Reddit comments show less respect for female politicians versus their male counterparts, researchers say ( journals.plos.org )
Paper: “Though we see relatively equal public interest in male and female politicians, … this interest may not be equally professional and reverent; female politicians are much more likely to be referenced using their first name and described in relation to their body, clothing and family than male politicians. Finally, we...
How Close Are We to Immortality? ( www.youtube.com )
