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It’s easy to find an online test that will purportedly tell you how happy you are. But how happy are the people of an entire nation? And which nation’s people are happiest?
That’s hard to measure. So for decades world organizations like the United Nations that concern themselves with improving people’s well-being have used a single proxy for hap
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The faster-than-light neutrinos seen by the OPERA particle physics experiment last year may have just been explained. By a loose cable. I wish I was joking.
To back up a little, the OPERA collaboration based at the Gran Sasso laboratory underneath the mountain of the same name
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Two years ago my genes were profiled. Results ranged from useful (high risk for blood clots) to mildly unsettling (I do have curly blonde hair and blue eyes). But among the laundry list of drug response and trait data was something that peaked my interest — sandwiched between ‘Floxacillin Toxicity’ and ‘Lumirazcoxib Side Effects’ was ‘Heroin Addic
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Few fish would survive a swim in Antartica’s ice-covered waters. Temperatures can drop to -1.9 ℃, whereas a typical fish starts to freeze at -0.8 ℃. If the water is colder, microscopic ice crystals will soon infiltrate the fish through gills and skin and start growing from within. Nerves are severed, tissues damaged, and the [...]...
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In the last post I talked about babies eating poo how babies develop a gut flora. In this post I wanted to look at how that flora matures into adulthood.
As a baby grows it interacts with its environment and after about a year an infant’s flora will resemble their parent’s. This becomes particularly important as the baby starts to eat solid foods an
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Ed Note: As today is Ash Wednesday, it seemed an appropriate time to re-post this piece from the AiP archives.
Ashes to ashes: an observance of Ash Wednesday. | Creative Commons |Photo by Matt Millard, click on image for license and information.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season for Western Christians—the 40 days (or 46 if you c
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