1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (370+ words) One tenet of natural selection is a random walk of genes but nature may be more predictable than rolls of dice suggest. A new study of the mimicry of several distantly-related South American rainforest butterfly and moth species with similar…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (440+ words) In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of individuals, companies, and NGOs, from California to Minnesota to Massachusetts, have come under investigation for fraud in taking money from the federal government. Now the Department of Justice is investigating…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (700+ words) An analysis of 6. 14million maternal-child health records has linked prescription medications to higher rates of Autism Spectrum Disorder in offspring. Sterol biosynthesis'inhibiting medications (SBIMs) inhibitthe cholesterol synthesis pathway and areinclude antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, beta-blockersand statins; aripiprazole, atorvastatin, bupropion, buspirone, fluoxetine, haloperidol,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (474+ words) Chronic pain is reported by over 20 percent of the global population but there is no scientific determination of what that even means. There are metrics but standard 0-to-10 scales and questionnaires are subjective and basically only useful for justifying treatments…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (195+ words) There are many hypothetical particles proposed to explain dark matter and one idea to explore how strongly hypothetical dark photons interact with normal photons wouldn't even involve a new and expensive dedicated facility, says Tokyo Metropolitan University Associate Professor Wen…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1334+ words) As some of the long-time readers of this blog know, in this column I have occasionally discussed probability calculations in the context of gambling and betting. A long time ago I also famously won a $1000 bet on the LHC not…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (475+ words) Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of the first Earth Day was not a politician, as the movement has greenwashed Democratic U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson into being, yet credible journalists and an alarming…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (160+ words) Science 2. 0 Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania Previously unexamined, these ancient crabs from the Prosopidae family existed more than 150 million years ago during…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (317+ words) Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed high-tech textile yarns that can be used to make clothing glow in the dark, ideal for late-night bicyclists and joggers. Current high visibility products " such as those used by emergency services and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (574+ words) ["How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain'Science 2. 0","If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from the 1970s, that's because they are....