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Retraction Watch - 1 day 21 hours agoThe U.S. Office of Research Integrity has sanctioned a former postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York for manipulating images in two grant updates and a manuscript. Chen-Yeh "George" Ke committed research misconduct by intentionally falsifying images in an unpublished manuscript supported by federal funds and by reporting … Continue reading Former Mount Sinai postdoc falsified images in grant updates, ORI says...
After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible...
Using state data, an environmental group found PFAS residue on more than 40 different kinds of fruits and vegetables grown in California. The state has approved 53 PFAS pesticide ingredients, while other states, such as Maine, are throttling back.
GeekSpin - 2 days 3 hours agoIn the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and sent aboard the space shuttle Columbia. By the time the mission ended nine days later, the number had exploded, with tens […] Read the original article here: Why NASA sent 2,478 jellyfish to space to study gravity...
There's a moment in John Williams's Star Wars overture when the brass surges upward. You don't just hear it; you feel propulsion turning into pure possibility. On 16 March 1926, in a snow-dusted field in Auburn, Mass., Robert Goddard created an earlier version of that same feeling. His first liquid-fueled rocket a spindly, three meter tangle of pipes and tanks lifted off, climbed about 12.5 meters, traveled roughly 56 meters downrange, and crashed into the frozen ground after 2.5 seconds...
For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.
Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 9 hours agoLast fall I visited the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, where I stumbled across two fishbowls brimming with gallstones. They were donated, according to the placard, by a pathologist named Dr. S. Robert Freedman. Why, I wondered in an earlier post, would Dr. Freedman keep so very many stones? I couldn't ask him — […] The post The Stone Collector appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Financial Times - 2 days 12 hours agoPoliticians aren't the best judges of the merits of scientific research...
Australian Geographic - 2 days 13 hours agoIn 1804 Australia had its first uprising the Castle Hill Rebellion. The post Defining Moments in Australian History: The Castle Hill Rebellion appeared first on Australian Geographic .
GeekSpin - 2 days 16 hours agoA defunct NASA spacecraft weighing about 1,300 pounds is expected to make a dramatic return to Earth today, bringing an end to a mission that began more than a decade ago. The satellite has spent nearly 14 years orbiting the planet and is now set to plunge back through the atmosphere. While most of it […] Read the original article here: A 1300-pound NASA satellite is falling to Earth today...
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