Category: Science
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Mom Was Right: Catching Cold in the Cold
This research hints that keeping your nasal cavity warm might be an effective way to prevent rhinovirus infection. Maybe Mom was right, after all.
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Weird Diseases People Acquired from Animals
While our fluffy furballs are cute, always remember that they often possess noxious microbes.
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How the Plague Hijacked Fleas to Kill the World
The more fleas that survive, the more rats (and humans) that can become infected.
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Chernobyl Radiation Changed Rodent Hair Color?
A team of scientists led by Zbyszek Boratyński has reported in the journal Scientific Reports that Chernobyl radiation has changed the hair color of local rodents.
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How the Polish Buried Their Vampires
In the 1600s and 1700s in Drawsko Pomorskie, a town in northwestern Poland, a suspected vampire was buried with a sickle across his body and/or a stone in his mouth.
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Drug Overdose: The Real American Epidemic
As it turns out, our society’s habit of reaching for the medicine cabinet for every (heart)ache and pain is quite literally killing us.
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Simmer Down: Viruses Not ‘Fourth Domain’ of Life
Considering viruses to be a fourth domain would unnecessarily complicate evolutionary biology.
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Is RealClearScience Conservative or Liberal?
If we are hearing our critics correctly, we are both, and something much worse.
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Sci-Fi Now Reality: Mind Control of Gene Expression
Brain waves –> Bluetooth (microwave photons) –> Electric current –> Magnetic field –> Another electric current (in the implant) –> Near-infrared photons –> Activation of cellular genetic pathway –> Enzyme produced and secreted into the blood.
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Phil Plait’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
This article was originally published on RealClearScience. The Apocalypse is here. Science writer Phil Plait’s worst nightmare came true. The Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate. What can we expect to happen? In Plait’s words, the Republicans will “put a cohort of science-deniers [sic] into positions of authority,” which “quite literally affects the future…