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Toxic forever chemicals' were found at a level 10 times higher than people who did not work in contaminated zone New research shows alarming levels of Pfas in the blood of people living or working near a US air force base responsible for polluting drinking water with high levels of the dangerous "forever chemicals", a new state regulatory report has found. The levels are high enough in those who lived and worked near the Cannon air force base in Curry county to raise health concerns...
You can do much better than Google Maps and Apple Maps. The post The best free public transit apps to get you from A to B anywhere in the world appeared first on Popular Science .
If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.
Words you'll never speak still cause activity in the brain's speech centers.
Social media is helping drive trade in skulls, bones and skin products as UK legal void risks new era of body snatching' "When it comes to human stuff, I'll take anything, pretty much," says Henry Scragg. "As long as it's been ethically sourced, may I add." Speaking from his macabre curiosities shop in Essex in a recent YouTube interview, Scragg wears a shabby bowler hat, has tribal-style face tattoos and a ginger beard that descends into three pendulous dreadlocks. Continue...
Leading researcher forecasts beginning of the age of non-tourism' despite industry returning to pre-pandemic highs It was a prediction nobody wanted to hear. On the main stage of the world's biggest tourism fair, Stefan G ssling, a leading researcher in sustainable transport, had just calmly announced the looming death of the holiday industry. "We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism," said G ssling, to an uneasy audience of travel agencies, car rental companies...
This deadly bacteria, which hits low-income people the hardest, was once an "only in New York" problem. Extreme heat is now increasing its prevalence.
Some emergency room doctors and nurses who are versed in climate change want more recognition of the ways overheating can precipitate ER visits for heart, respiratory and kidney disease.
Retraction Watch - 2 hours 25 min agoOur list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up past 500. There are more than 60,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database which is now part of Crossref. The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker now contains more than 300 titles. And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately … Continue reading Weekend reads: ChatGPT ignores retractions; the Swiss Cheese Model' for flagging papers; plagiarism in the age of AI...
Americans of color are dying and getting sick at increasing rates from air pollution linked to gas and oil, according to a new study.
From cold starts to camping trips, this powerhouse jump starter is your new trunk MVP and it's on sale. The post Battery or budget anxiety? This 33% off jump starter deal has you (and your car) covered appeared first on Popular Science .
Discover Magazine - 14 hours 50 min agoLearn more about the reclassification of the tallest terrestrial animal, including its implications for giraffe conservation.
Discover Magazine - 15 hours 5 min agoLearn what cesium-137 is, how food can become radioactive, and what to do if you recently purchased shrimp.
Discover Magazine - 15 hours 25 min agoLearn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System.
Retraction Watch - 15 hours 54 min agoFour papers from a team of researchers in Japan have received expressions of concern for overlap in control samples, data, study design and statistical analyses. The publisher of the articles says it has closed its investigation. The notices were published in PLOS One from July 31 to August 3 to inform readers of "study design … Continue reading PLOS One slaps four papers with expressions of concern for overlapping control data...
Popular Mechanics - 16 hours 52 min agoYou've been doing your nighttime routine in the wrong order.
A mudslide buried the ceremonial location around 800 CE. The post Lost, ancient cult site unearthed near a Norwegian highway appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Mechanics - 17 hours 17 min agoThe pathogen that fueled the Black Death never disappeared it just went into hiding.
The evidence for sweating it out is promising but incomplete...
The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.
Popular Mechanics - 17 hours 36 min agoFor all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering hope for restoration.
A study of more than 6 million children finds that exposure to antibiotics in the womb or early in life tends not to increase the risk of autoimmunity but the relationship is complicated...
Immersing yourself in nature has repeatedly been shown to reduce stress and anxiety, but it could also have serious benefits for your physical health...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has assembled a team of researchers to make communication networks more secure by injecting them with quantumness...
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