Traces of bird flu are showing up in cow milk. Here's what to know - 0 views
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“The challenge that I see right now on U.S. farms is a virus getting into hogs,” Osterholm says. Pigs carry receptors similar to the ones found in both humans and birds, making swine a hog-heaven for bird flus that have potential to become a pandemic.
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“The challenge that I see right now on U.S. farms is a virus getting into hogs,” Osterholm says. Pigs carry receptors similar to the ones found in both humans and birds, making swine a hog-heaven for bird flus that have potential to become a pandemic.
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Be sure you are tagging articles when you bookmark them. I don't see any tags on this one, and I only see one on the other, "ice." Also... this is a SUPER interesting topic. However, we'd have way more than an uphill climb working with any sort of known pathogens (even potential pathogens) if we could even get our hands on them.
Science: Crayfish Can Be Calmed With Anti-Anxiety Medication | American Association for... - 0 views
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"There have been very few studies of the crayfish brain,"
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crayfish normally prefer darkness,
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non-shocked, non-stressed crayfish did.
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Frontiers | Overview of Carbon Capture Technology: Microalgal Biorefinery Concept and S... - 1 views
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The impending danger of climate change and pollution can now be seen on the world panorama. The concentration of CO2, the most important Green House Gas (GHG), has reached to formidable levels.
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(iii) microalgae cultivation
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Furthermore, microalgae can be fed with notorious waste gasses such as CO2 and NOx, SOx from flue gas, inorganic and organic carbon, N, P and other pollutants from agricultural, industrial and sewage wastewater sources so as to provide us with opportunities to transform them into bioenergy, valuable products and forms that cause least harm to the environment
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OK, so... you could likely create a biofuel from algae produced via the insertion of CO2 into a bioreactor system (perhaps even test the one you have vs. a creation fo your own to maximize growth with a more powerful set of lights and extensive tubing). Right off the top of my head, I know we can easily access commercial CO2 canisters that are used in aquarium setups to boost plant growth. Fluval makes such canisters. You would have to find out the volume/mass of CO2 contained in one. You'd have to be less concerned with toxins of you are able to choose a different algae for this capture vs. the rather toxic species you worked with last year.
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Ants perform life saving operations - the only animal other than humans known to do so ... - 0 views
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In experiments, they observed that the ants treated their nest members' femur injuries by cleaning the wound with their mouths before amputating the leg by repeatedly biting it, while the tibia wounds were treated with just cleaning.
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The scientists are now extending their research to other ant species that don't possess special antimicrobial glands to see if other ants have the ability to perform surgeries.
Dynamic microvilli sculpt bristles at nanometric scale | Nature Communications - 0 views
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Scanning electron microscopy/SEM
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The refractive index tomograms of isolated bristles were obtained by Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer, and raw data were deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10207240.
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This might be the way to dial in the measurement ratios to mimick something like this on a larger scale for some purpose. How do the worms use them? If this doesn't get it, we can ALWAYS email the actual scientists to see if they can send us this data to do what we're trying to do. They are usually VERY helpful in such things for creative and hard-working students.
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I am often thinking about biomimicry. I wonder if something like this process could be 3D printed at a larger scale... for another valuable use of some sort. (?)
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This one is a LOT of chew through, but it is super interesting to figure out how living things bioengineer such structures over millions of years of evolution. Biomimicry is simply us studying (and then mimicking) the most interesting things in nature... to enhance something in the human world. This article is the original journal article linked to and highlighted by one of the ScienceDaily stories from today.
Scientists develop visual tool to help people group foods based on their levels of proc... - 0 views
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Scientists studying ultra-processed foods have created a new tool for assessing the rewarding and reinforcing properties of foods that make up 58 percent of calories consumed in the United States. The foods have been linked to a wide range of negative health outcomes.
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provides a collection of carefully curated images of minimally processed and ultra-processed foods matched on 26 characteristics, including macronutrients, sodium, dietary fiber, calories, price, and visual characteristics such as a color and portion size
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The scale has its detractors. "A major criticism of the NOVA scale is that it's difficult to use or that foods are classified differently by different people," said Alexandra DiFeliceantonio, corresponding author and assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. "We found that people with education in nutrition generally agreed on the food classifications, providing some data that it might not be a valid criticism."
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See... this is the sort of thing I see as an opportunity. If the scale has detractors or isn't yet perfect, perhaps there is an opening here for a project. Perhaps there is even an opening to create something focused on teens (who I would argue are at most risk for the consumption of ultra-processed foods). This is an interesting area to me, not only behavioral science, but human diet in general.
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Frequent mowing puts poisonous weed into survival mode | ScienceDaily - 0 views
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The taproot went down further
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More spikes popped out on the stem
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The flowers became more toxic
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There is a TON of data that can be measured & analyzed in a study like this. Easier to do in a less time-dependent way in the lab, but easier and more realistic (in vivo) to do if you have access to similar fields that are mowed and unmowed to differing extents. So many variables to examine and consider here for how plants may change physiologically based upon how we interact with them. This goes beyond that analogy I always use for fast evolution in Honors Biology: how dandelion populations become shorter based upon frequent mowing. This gets into the physiological responses. Very cool methinks.
Race car drivers tend to blink at the same places in each lap - 2 views
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The world goes dark for about one-fifth of a second every time you blink, a fraction of an instant that’s hardly noticeable to most people. But for a Formula One race car driver traveling up to 354 kilometers per hour, that one-fifth means almost 20 meters of lost vision
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People are often thought to blink at random intervals, but researchers found that wasn’t the case for three Formula drivers.
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the drivers tended to blink at the same parts of the course during each lap, cognitive neuroscientist Ryota Nishizono and colleagues report in the May 19 iScience
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Interesting. So, do we do the same thing while driving around town? Could you design a method to record eye blinks as people drive known routes around town? We could simultaneously use the Arduino Science Journal app on the iPhone to also correlate physical data in a moving car like acceleration/deceleration, motion in X, Y, Z directions, etc. I wonder if we could find a correlation in everyday driving that could help from a safety perspective?
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Study shows that opportunity costs influence when people leave social interactions - 1 views
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I like this sort of research. Do you think a game like this is either build-able or perhaps even getting access to the one they used? Is it open source? Can you track down this paper? I'm wondering about tying it to depression, etc. That might drift into territory they might not approve at this age (especially since all participants have paperwork they have to sign off on, and any participants under 18 have to have the paperwork signed off by a parent. I wonder if you might dig into introversion/extroversion and whether that might have an impact on similar things. Seems like it might.
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This also makes me think of the UCSD juncos... and how they forage longer in stressful environments due to decreased corticosterone levels....... and how that is a key characteristic allowing them to survive in a human-built environment.
Airplane Noise Exposure May Increase Risk of Chronic Disease | SPH - 0 views
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people who were exposed to higher levels of noise from aircraft were more likely to have a higher body mass index, an indicator for obesity that can lead to stroke or hypertension. The findings highlight how the environment—and environmental injustices—can shape health outcomes
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self-reported body mass index (BMI)
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The study is the first to explore a connection between aircraft noise exposure and obesity nationwide in the United States; past studies on this subject have focused on European populations, and results have varied
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Simple new process stores CO2 in concrete without compromising strength - 0 views
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By using a carbonated -- rather than a still -- water-based solution during the concrete manufacturing process, a Northwestern University-led team of engineers has discovered a new way to store carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ubiquitous construction material.
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Not only could the new process help sequester CO2 from the ever-warming atmosphere, it also results in concrete with uncompromised strength and durability.
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"The cement and concrete industries significantly contribute to human-caused CO2 emissions,"
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A high-fat diet may fuel anxiety | ScienceDaily - 0 views
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The study found that in animals, a high-fat diet disrupts resident gut bacteria, alters behavior and, through a complex pathway connecting the gut to the brain, influences brain chemicals in ways that fuel anxiety.
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"To think that just a high-fat diet could alter expression of these genes in the brain is extraordinary," said Lowry. "The high-fat group essentially had the molecular signature of a high anxiety state in their brain."
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