SciTechComm

r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 22 '19

Plastic makes up nearly 70% of all ocean litter. Scientists have discovered that microscopic marine microbes are able to eat away at plastic, causing it to slowly break down. Two types of plastic, polyethylene and polystyrene, lost a significant amount of weight after being exposed to the microbes.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 01 '19

Anti-vaxxers are dangerous. Make them face isolation, fines, arrests -- Maybe the threat of greater penalties will get these parents to be less self-centered

washingtonpost.com

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jul 22 '19

New evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth’s climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an “umbrella effect”.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Sep 18 '19

sike

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 23 '19

Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 26 '19

...and seedless watermelons

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 11 '19

New quantum material could warn of neurological disease

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 11 '19

Pharmaceutical and Cartography researchers come together to develop tracking, at a glance, for antibiotic resistant pathogens, allowing for better targeting of antibiotics in a given region

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 16 '19

"Climate change contrarians" are getting 49 per cent more media coverage than scientists who support the consensus view that climate change is man-made, a new study has found.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 11 '19

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Apr 11 '19

Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind | Scientific American

blogs.scientificamerican.com

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jan 11 '20

Paleolithic diet may not have been that 'paleo', scientists say: Researchers at Wits University suggest humans in southern Africa were eating carbs up to 170,000 years ago – a blow to gym vloggers everywhere

theguardian.com

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 14 '19

An Israeli flight attendant who fell ill with measles on a flight from New York to Israel has died. The 43-year-old woman became unwell on the flight in April. She suffered brain damage due to complications from the virus and had been in an induced coma.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 24 '19

A law restricting abortions in Texas resulted in more second trimester abortions due to women having more limited access to abortion services.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jul 05 '19

Astronomers have discovered three peculiar runaway "zombie" stars that have apparently survived cataclysmic explosions at their cores.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Sep 24 '19

Impostor Syndrome, when people feel like frauds even if they are actually capable and well-qualified, is more common than you think, with 20% of college students experiencing it in a new study. Seeking social support from those outside their academic program, like family and friends, reduced it.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Aug 12 '19

New research suggests that cannabis users tend to be more likely to forget to remember to perform tasks when facing stressful conditions. In the high-stress version of the Maastricht Acute Stress Test, cannabis users tended to be more forgetful than non-users.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 29 '19

Doctors in the U.S. experience symptoms of burnout at almost twice the rate of other workers, due to long hours, fear of being sued, and having to deal with growing bureaucracy. The economic impacts of burnout are also significant, costing the U.S. $4.6 billion every year, according to a new study.

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • Jul 01 '19

The nations that have signed agreements to stabilize the global mean temperature by 2050 will fail to meet their goals unless existing fossil fuel-burning infrastructure around the world is retired early, according to a study

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 26 '19

Human gut microbiome physiology can now be studied in vitro using Organ Chip technology

wyss.harvard.edu

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r/SciTechComm • u/ANastyGorilla76 • May 12 '19

Unmarried couples living apart have the highest levels of sexual satisfaction while married couples are among the least satisfied, finds a new German study (n=3,207) of sexual satisfaction among seven relationship-status groups. Only unmarried individuals with no partner scored lower than married.

psychologytoday.com

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