Charles Choi, Space.com
The majority of antimatter that pervades the Milky Way may come from clashing remnants of dead stars, a new study finds.The work may solve a 40-year-old astrophysics mystery, the study's researchers said.
Matt Wood, The Conversation
Judging by the statistics, a lot of people must have received virtual reality technology for Christmas. Views of virtual reality pornography on one website spiked at 900,000 on Christmas Day 2016, three times what they were a month previously. Today, daily views are almost 250% higher than a year ago.
David Gorski, Science-Based Medicine
We here have long lamented the creeping infiltration of quackery into medical academia in which modalities once considered quackery, such as acupuncture, reiki, naturopathy, homeopathy, and various other dubious treatments, have found their way into what should be bastions of science-based medicine (SBM). Over the years, we have noted the proliferation of integrative medicine programs and residencies in medical academia, and professional conferences, the credulous... Читать дальше...
Laura Sanders, ScienceNews
Smarty-pants have 40 new reasons to thank their parents for their powerful brains. By sifting through the genetics of nearly 80,000 people, researchers have uncovered 40 genes that may make certain people smarter. That brings the total number of suspected intelligence genes to 52.
Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Car crashes, nuclear explosions, and even asteroid impacts are relatively puny compared with some of our universe's other explosive events. Heck, a violent, seemingly infinitely hot explosion is probably what set the whole universe in motion in the first place. So big collisions, like those between black holes many times the mass of our sun, could have some pretty wild consequences. Like scarring spacetime itself.
Chris Lee, Ars Technica
The Universe is a strange place. Apart from the normal matter that we see around us, there appears to be a far larger amount of matter that we cannot seethe infamous dark matter. Even more puzzling, the Universe seems to be bathed in a similarly invisible dark energy, which drives the Universe to expand faster and faster. This all points to something missing from our understanding.
Amanda Reilly, Science News
The Interior Department is facing a lawsuit from a Christian geologist who claims he was not allowed to collect rocks from Grand Canyon National Park because of his creationist beliefs.In the suit filed earlier this month, the Australian geologist, Andrew Snelling, says that religious discrimination was behind the National Park Service's (NRS's) decision to deny him a permit to gather samples from four locations in the park.
Matthew Brown, The Independent
Commercial development of the globe's huge reserves of a frozen fossil fuel known as combustible ice has moved closer to reality after Japan and China successfully extracted the material from the seafloor off their coastlines.
D. Berndtson, PBS
Studying volcanic eruptions in person can be dangerous, and scientists have died trying. Volcanic lightning yes, volcanoes make lightning! by contrast offers a safer opportunity to examine what happens inside a volcano. But these bright bolts still occur in vicious environments, plus the thick, dense plumes of ash can obscure lightning strikes.
D. Carrington, Guardian
It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
Usha Lee McFarling, Stat
LA JOLLA, Calif. As her father lay dying of sepsis, Janelle Ayres spent nine agonizing days at his bedside. When he didn't beat the virulent bloodstream infection, she grieved. And then she got frustrated. She knew there had to be a better way to help patients like her dad.
Hilary Brueck, Forbes
It happened in the wee hours of the morning Friday on Twitter: A group of scientists started introducing themselves to science superstar Bill Nye with a brand new hashtag: #BillMeetScienceTwitter.Dani Rabaiotti who studies the effects of climate change on wild dogs in Africa at University College London, was the first to say hello to Nye:
