Solstice School 2023 ( solsticeschool.scholar.social )
This is a very cool informal conference organized in the Fediverse. If you have an interesting topic to tallk about, you can make a presentation. Last year eas a blast, I highly recommend it.
Ocean-friendly Sunscreen- Formulating a sunscreen alternative that won't harm ocean life ( stanmed.stanford.edu )
1.6-billion-year-old steroid fossils hint at a lost world of microbial life ( www.sciencenews.org )
Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago....
Scientists report world’s first X-ray of a single atom in Nature ( www.ohio.edu )
Cannabidiol for Oral Health: A New Promising Therapeutical Tool in Dentistry ( www.mdpi.com )
Britain’s shorter children reveal a grim story about austerity, but its scars run far deeper | Michael Marmot ( www.theguardian.com )
Since 2010, our five-year-olds have been showing signs of reduced growth, a likely symptom of policies that have led to impoverished lives
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community ( today.ucsd.edu )
Reexamining "Fair Use" in the Age of AI ( hai.stanford.edu )
Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected ( phys.org )
Huge leap in breast-cancer survival rate ( www.nature.com )
"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" ( www.youtube.com )
Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.
The Effect of Self-Monitoring Limited Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being ( tmb.apaopen.org )
What are your favorite science publications (that aren't primary literature)?
A lot of science communication in the media can be, to say it gently, not the best. Important things get left out, conclusions are often misrepresented or extrapolated to things that they really don't say, and methods are often left out completely....
Immune resistance produces asymptomatic carriage of a lethal bacterial pathogen ( www.science.org )
Salk scientists discover that pairing disease-causing bacteria with dietary interventions creates long-term immunity in mice
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The Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean Is Underway | Hakai Magazine ( hakaimagazine.com )
What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?: Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck ( www.thenewatlantis.com )
Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine ( www.nytimes.com )
Archive Link from archive.today...
How a harmless lie created an iconic Dodgers infield - Los Angeles Times ( www.latimes.com )
The most decorated infield in Dodgers history started, of all things, with one small, harmless lie....
Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago ( www.newscientist.com )
Bison reintroduced to Canada's Banff thrive again ( phys.org )
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/720520...
A CRISPR-based method makes T cells that thwart teens’ cancer ( www.nature.com )
does anyone has access to the full white paper? I looked on z-lib and Google scholar and neither has them yet. I'm sure it will be findable eventually, but I'll probably have forgotten about it by then. @piracy
Stanford Medicine-led research identifies a subtype of depression ( med.stanford.edu )
In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky for people who can get pregnant ( arstechnica.com )
Type 1 Diabetes Incidence and Risk in Children With a Diagnosis of COVID-19 ( jamanetwork.com )
"The incidence of type 1 diabetes in children increased during the COVID-19 pandemic,1-4 but studies have not discriminated between children with and without infection. We analyzed a large population-based, individual-patient data set that included diagnoses of COVID-19 to determine whether there was a temporal association...