I am in my honeymoon phase with the fediverse.
I share what I've read and want others to discover also.
If you're into women's football or women's tennis join me on @WomensFootball and @WomensTennis.
Inspire us here : @inspirational.
I am in my honeymoon phase with the fediverse.
I share what I've read and want others to discover also.
If you're into women's football or women's tennis join me on @WomensFootball and @WomensTennis.
Inspire us here : @inspirational.
How often do you read fiction and how do you manage to do it?
I want to know how you do manage your time to read. At the beginning of the year, I've made a resolution to read more this year but after 3 or 4 months of good reading, I was back to my "old version". Some good practices?
Saudi Arabia set to host 2034 World Cup (bbc.in)
Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times?
“it do be like that sometimes” is starting to lose it’s magic a little
Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why (www.nature.com)
‘Human challenge’ results suggest that such trials could be used to test vaccines when Zika incidence is low....
Got a Mouse in Your Apartment? These Scientists Will Take It. (www.nytimes.com)
A research study is examining how mice that live in cities, close to humans, may have evolved differently from their country cousins.
Grand plan to drought-proof India could reduce rainfall (www.nature.com)
The major engineering scheme aims to interlink several Indian rivers to support irrigation....
A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu)
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him....
New initiative aims to sequence half a million genomes of people with African ancestry for health studies (www.science.org)
An industry-academic initiative announced today aims to create the largest ever database of genomes exclusively from people with African ancestry. Four biopharma companies contributing $80 million have teamed up with Meharry Medical College to launch the effort, which hopes to recruit up to 500,000 African Americans and people...
Berkeley Lab to lead US hunt for element 120 after breakdown of collaboration with Russia (www.chemistryworld.com)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian...
Indigenous Voice: Australians reject historic Indigenous referendum - BBC News (bbc.in)
Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.
Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest (bbc.in)
The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.
Belgium v Sweden abandoned after Brussels shooting (bbc.in)
Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden is abandoned at half-time for security reasons after two Swedish people are shot dead in Brussels.
New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)
New clinical-trial data suggest that an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir shortens the duration of two unpleasant symptoms of COVID-19: loss of smell and taste. The medication is among the first to alleviate these effects and, unlike other COVID-19 treatments, is not reserved only for people at high risk of severe illness.
Art with DNA – Digitally creating 16 million colors by chemistry (medienportal.univie.ac.at)
Previous limitation to 256 colors far exceeded...
UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years (www.bbc.co.uk)
The JET laboratory, the focus of European fusion experiments for decades, carries out its last test.
Neanderthals hunted—and revered—cave lions (www.science.org)
Study provides oldest direct evidence of our ancient cousins killing the big cats, perhaps not just for their meat...
The fastest ever human-made object keeps breaking its own speed record (www.popsci.com)
The Parker Solar Probe's new top speed could get you from NYC to LA in just 20 seconds. It's not done yet.
Hubert Reeves, astrophysicien et grand vulgarisateur, est mort (www.lemonde.fr) French
Spécialiste de l’histoire du cosmos, le chercheur a su mettre la science à la portée de tous, multipliant livres et conférences. Il est mort à Paris le 13 octobre, à l’âge de 91 ans.
Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study finds (www.psu.edu)
An American born in 2019 will spend a larger share of their lifetime taking prescription drugs than being married or receiving an education, according to new research by Jessica Ho, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State. She reported the findings this week (article date: Oct 6) in the journal Demography.