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Royal Society Te Aprangi Follow Our Changing World on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRADIO or wherever you listen to your podcasts When Sunny Perry decided to make a map identifying locations of corrosive soil around Northland, she didn’t foresee the extra benefits. At each site, Sunny took triplicate soil samples at different depths which she brought back to her makeshift chemistry lab to test for the presence of a certain type of soil. This soil was the culprit behind
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7 months ago Read more at RNZ

physicist Lars Hultman of Linköping University in Sweden has created a free-standing sheet of gold that’s just one atom thick. Goldene holds promise as a great catalyst because it’s much more economically viable than thicker, three-dimensional gold. In gold’s case, atoms tend to form clumps rather than flat sheets.
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7 months ago Read more at Science News Magazine

NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars. Each awardee will receive between $200,000 and $300,000 to produce a detailed report on potential services that could support future missions to the Red Planet. The selected Mars Exploration Commercial Services studies are divided into four categories: Small payload delivery and hosting services Lockheed Martin Corporation, Littleton, Colorado.
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7 months ago Read more at NASA

The science of sex and gender is too often misinterpreted and weaponized. Now, three experts cut through the misinformation in search of a positive future for this long-neglected area of research Download Podcast: Sex and gender discussions don't need to be toxic Ever since scientific enquiry began, people have focused mainly on men, or if studies involve animals, on male mice, male rats or whatever it may be. And this has led to gaps in scientists’ understanding of how diseases,
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7 months ago Read more at Nature.com

In a study on rats, a team of scientists from across the United States has found that physical activity causes many cellular and molecular changes in all 19 of the organs they studied in the animals. Most studies have focused on a single organ, sex, or time point, and only include one or two data types. The team studied a range of tissues from the animals, such as the heart, brain, and lungs.
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7 months ago Read more at Medical Xpress

Yu Ding and colleagues hypothesize that people with high levels of religious intolerance are more likely to reject science. Aggregated cellphone location data revealed that religiously diverse US counties engaged in more social distancing in April 2020. Countries around the world with higher religious diversity showed higher scores on a high school science test known as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
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7 months ago Read more at Phys.org

Large amounts of data collected by today’s sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small rocket and balloon suborbital mission computing and avionics systems. The CASBa, Comprehensive Avionic System for Balloons, under development at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia, will occupy about 6 by 8 by 6 inches — about the size of a gallon jug of milk.
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7 months ago Read more at NASA

The anti-aging market, valued at $40 billion, is estimated to hit $60 billion by 2032. To stave off old age, people slather on wrinkle cream, pop supplements, and lift weights. According to latest science, there’s no clear biological tipping point marking the transition from midlife to late life.
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7 months ago Read more at National Geographic

GLP-1 receptor agonists have revolutionized the treatment of these two diseases, changing the relationship that society has with hunger, diet and food. These drugs are showing some interesting side effects. This study points out how Parkinson’s patients treated with this type of medication maintained their motor abilities without major changes for a year.
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7 months ago Read more at EL PAÍS USA

Nina Stute is a doctoral student in Auburn’s Kinesiology program. Stute was a competitive figure skater. She applied for a job at a physiology lab working on sports.
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7 months ago Read more at Valley Times-News