This is the second post reporting a few tests of the Radiacode 110 spectrometer, an extra-cool pocket dosimeter/radiation counter/spectrograph sold by RadiaCode. I have had the chance today to test…

There's an asymmetrical dilemma among native populations, say ecologists. They should be opposed to oil extraction, because they are told to be, but many are not. Instead, they welcome progress even…

In a new Lancet paper, 98 real urgent care patients corresponded with a Google DeepMind (Gemini et al.) medical LLM before their appointment with a physician. Though as a society we stopped doing…

No, it is not. Please note! It goes back to Stan Ulam in the 1940s! Lately I am observing how many colleagues young and old --experimental particle physicists, mostly working at LHC experiments--…

It has never been easier for us to access images of people being harmed, maimed and killed. Two recent cases have focused on very different, prominent stories of sharing graphic footage of deaths.…

Magnetic resonance imaging has always involved a trade-off. Clinicians want sharper images, finer anatomical detail and more information about tissue, but acquiring that information takes time.…

Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter…

Many people want to feel secure in a relationship but that does not mean people perceive it the same way. It is a bit of a moving target, finds new survey results. Some feel that confidence in the…

Yesterday I was delighted to receive in my mailbox another radiation spectrometer for testing, the Radiacode 110. Radiacode produces several radiation counters and spectrometers for personal /…

Genetic analysis of a Aldabrachelys gigantea tortoise named Jonathan reveals that if you take care of your DNA, it will take care of you.  Jonathan, age 194, maintains good DNA repair and good…

In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been…

Since implementation of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare after President Obama, who signed it into law for his party, an unclear number of California doctors cap the number of…

Imagine a fairy tale in which kids are playing outside and one is acting as a cook, one is a butcher, and one is the pig for dinner. Life in the early 1800s was so unmanaged even Gen X thinks it was…

California AB 2244 is now law and marketing executives at Organic food companies are preparing to buy new mansions. Because the law says if a grocery store carries an "ultraprocessed" food item they…

Some kids help others more than other kids. A lot of that is probably social learning. Yet a new paper reveals that being helpful may be a universal trait. The data were 336 children aged four to…

A new paper posits that rather than being the random chaos theory colloquially known by things like the Butterfly Effect, recurrent coastal floods actually occur at very predictable times. The tides…

Yesterday I traveled all day, moving my family back to Lulea from Padova. The trip is long because there is no direct connection from Venice to Stockholm (Norwegian has one, but I prefer to avoid…

If not caught early, ovarian cancer can be life-threatening. The five-year survival rate for later diagnoses, after it has spread, is under 30 percent and existing therapies kill healthy cells along…

We tend to talk about food spoilage as if time itself were the culprit. Leave a bag of nuts, a bottle of juice or a packet of dried food on the shelf for long enough, the thinking goes, and age…

People are turning to artificial intelligence for a seemingly unending variety of reasons. Many ask AI what to cook for dinner or how to develop a workout plan. Some even rely on AI to create school…