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3 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. In 2004, a Chinese woman named Xie Qiuping won the Guinness World Record for the longest human scalp hair at 5.627 meters—the length of...
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Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. The Big Bang is the prevailing cosmological model of the universe. But some authors argue that it may never have happened because the model...
RealClearScience - Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls
5 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. The Big Bang is the prevailing cosmological model of the universe. But some authors argue that it may never have happened because the model...
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4 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Are dogs really the key to better health and a happier life? In this new study, dog owners were invited to describe the biggest benefits and...
The Biggest Junk Science of 2024 - RealClearScience
Dec 17, 2024 · 3. People think that drinking raw milk will make them immune to H5N1. H5N1 bird flu is absolutely devastating birds and other wildlife across the globe. Now, it widely infects dairy cows and poultry in the U.S, resulting in sixty confirmed human cases in 2024.
Why Alzheimer’s Scientists Are Re-thinking the Amyloid Hypothesis
Jan 8, 2025 · F or decades, scientists have been trying to develop therapeutics for people living with Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by cognitive decline. Given the global rise in cases, the stakes are high.A study published in The Lancet Public Health reports that the number of adults living with dementia worldwide is expected to nearly triple, to 153 ...
Making Nuclear Space Propulsion a Reality - RealClearScience
Oct 5, 2024 · NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.. This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal ...
What Did We Learn by Intentionally Infecting People With Covid-19?
Jan 2, 2025 · W hen the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic?. The idea sounded counterintuitive, but by carefully dosing individuals with SARS-CoV-2 in a controlled setting — like Chiu had been doing for more than a decade with seasonal flu and RSV — scientists could study how the virus ...
Puzzling Fossils Found in China May Rewrite the Human Story
1 day ago · A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who lived between 300,000 and …
The Universe Is Smoother Than Theory Suggests
Sep 27, 2024 · Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we could explain, that cosmologists are increasingly struggling to make sense of.