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A malignant bone cancer has been identified in a dinosaur for the first time! Specifically an osteosarcoma, which is te most common type of bone cancer in humans. It was found around the femur of a Centrosaurus apertus, a plant-eating horned dinosaur that lived and died about 76 million years ago.
A letter and a sketch by Mary Anning, which describes a discovery of a plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs are the inspiration of the myth of Loch Ness monster.
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Kelvin (K) is literally an absolute unit.
Israeli scientists create world’s first 3D-printed heart using human cells
Israeli researchers have created an entire 3D-printed heart made from human cells in what they say is a world first.
The heart doesn’t beat and is too small for use in people — it’s only about the size of a rabbit’s heart. But the little organ is considered a big advance in the ongoing effort to find new treatments for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
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Why women are 50 percent more likely to be misdiagnosed after a heart attack and 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash.
“In medical lore, the term “Yentl syndrome” has come to describe what happens when women present to their doctors with symptoms that differ from men’s — they often get misdiagnosed, mistreated, or told the pain is all in their heads. This phenomenon can have lethal consequences.
Many, many women have had this experience when they go to the doctor. I had it myself, years ago. As a spate of articles about the phenomenon has come out in the past couple of years, more people have begun talking about a “gender pain gap.”
In a new book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, the British journalist and feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez argues that this is part of a larger problem: the “gender data gap.” Basically, the data our society collects is typically about men’s experience, not women’s. That data gets used to allocate research funding and make decisions about design. Because most things and spaces — from pain medicationsto cars, and from air-conditioned offices to city streets — have been designed by men with men as the default user, they often don’t work well for women.
Even when researchers do gather data from women as well as men in their studies, they often fail to sex-disaggregate it — to separate out the male and female data they’ve collected and analyze it for differences. That’s crucial, because a new pain medication that’s ineffective for men may work great for women, but you’d never know it if you mixed all their data together.”
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While the study offers no immediate therapeutic benefits for humans, it creates a new research platform that may ultimately help doctors find ways to revive brain function in stroke patients or to test new treatments for restoring brain cells damaged by injury, the authors said.
Yale University scientists have succeeded in restoring basic cellular activity in pigs’ brains hours after their deaths in a finding that may one day lead to advances in treating human stroke and brain injuries, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The scientists emphasized that their work did not even come close to reawakening consciousness in the disembodied pig brains. In fact the experiment was specifically designed to avoid such an outcome, however improbable.
Still, the study raises a host of bioethical issues, including questions about the very definition of brain death and potential consequences for protocols related to organ donation.
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Look, all you science-types classifying “bugs” with your “science names”. Just stop it. The truth is out there. Those are fairies and you know it.
Jeweled flower mantis? That’s a fairy.
Lace bug? Nice try, government. FAIRY.
Satin moth? FUCK YOU. FAIRY.
You can’t just go shouting this from the rooftops, they are The Good Folk Under the Hill that we do not fuck with, come on!
Kernza: Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save The Planet?
This past week in San Francisco, food writers and environmentalists gathered to taste some breakfast cereal.
This particular cereal had an ingredient — the milled seeds of a little-known plant called Kernza — that’s the result of a radical campaign to reinvent agriculture and reverse an environmentally disastrous choice made by our distant ancestors.
The campaign began 40-some years ago with a scientist-environmentalist named Wes Jackson. He argued that humanity took a wrong turn, thousands of years ago, when it came to rely on crops like wheat and rice for basic sustenance. These “annual” crops need replanting each year, “which means that if you’re going to get your seed to germinate, you’ve got to destroy the vegetation at the surface,” clearing away anything that might compete with the fragile seedlings, Jackson said.
Mystified homeowner was left baffled as to who was tidying his garden shed, he thought it was a ghost, but discovered the culprit was a house-proud mouse.
Via Lovethis.news
This is Katie Bouman.
The MIT grad student responsible for the amazing and long awaited black hole photographs that were before just a figment of amorphous scientific predictions. This is a very big success for the science world and for all women in STEM, and a big step forward of what was once just mere calculations. Yet, I have seen barely any mention of the woman responsible.
Y’all remember her and spread her legacy. It’s about time we recognize women of science and all women in history for their accomplishments! 🔬 🌎 🌑
The Evolution of Dice ! I’ve been wanting to do this one for a long time. Is it pretty understandable? Crits welcome!
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Ah, I’m terrible at this part of business.
The long and the short of it is I’m going to start making monthly posts encouraging folks to support my Patreon.
This month marks 2 years of Science Fact Friday, which I publish on a (nearly) weekly basis. It has been a fun journey, but it also requires quite a bit of time and effort—And I do it for free.
I know many folks can’t afford to support the artists and projects they enjoy, or just aren’t that committed to it, and that’s totally cool. If you DO choose to join in, I’m very grateful. If you don’t, reblogs are also a great way to help out, and I’m grateful for you too.
At the moment my special offerings for patrons are limited because I don’t like paywalling content. It’s mostly just high-res printable images and extra science info when I have some on hand. I hope to expand the offerings in the future but right now my goal is just to add some financial stability.
So, there you have it! Here’s the link one more time.
Thanks for your 2 years of support!
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Today is #GlobalRecyclingDay. Different types of plastic have different recycling rates – here’s a detailed look in C&EN: https://ift.tt/2Hzcixk https://ift.tt/2TXh3rz
Looking beyond straws to clean up the plastic in the oceans. New illustration done for NBC News.
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“As a result of its own investigation and following the decision taken by the University of Pisa, CERN decided not to extend Professor Strumia’s status of Guest Professor,” CERN said in a statement.
Last September, Italian physicist Alessandro Strumia gave a bizarre lecture at CERN in which he argued—to an audience of young women scientists—that women are less qualified to conduct physics than men. On Thursday, CERN officially severed its association with Strumia.
The workshop, hosted by CERN (the research organization in charge of the Large Hadron Collider), was supposed to focus on gender issues within the world of high-energy physics. Strumia, who conducted research at CERN via a grant from the European Research Council, was one of over 30 scientists scheduled to give a short presentation. The talk was ostensibly about gender differences in the citations doled out in studies.
Strumia did present data showing that men got more citations as their careers advanced, but then proceeded to argue this meant women were simply less capable at physics. He also claimed that there is no sexism in physics, whined about women scientists getting top positions over better-qualified men—using an anecdote about his own failure to get a certain position as an example—and warned about the dangers of “cultural Marxism.” And all with the help of slides that wouldn’t look out of a place on a 4chan thread.
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