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December 07, 2012

12:33 PM | Some ruminations around the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission

Space: the final frontier… The words from the opening sequence of Star Trek still echo from our TV sets and from our movie theaters, in reruns as well as in old and new movies. This month it is 40 years since we last saw actual astronauts set foot on an actual world not our own, [...]

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Video Tip of the Week: Canary Database for sentinels of human health

Recently we attended the Medical Library Association conference (#MLAnet13). Librarians are working so hard to wrangle information into usable forms, and to generate new connections among data types to reveal new information and leads for further studies. I ♥ librarians. In one of the sessions I attended on Medical Informatics, I heard several great talks. One [...]

Rabinowitz, P., Scotch, M. & Conti, L. (2010). Animals as Sentinels: Using Comparative Medicine To Move Beyond the Laboratory, ILAR Journal, 51 (3) 262-267. DOI: 10.1093/ilar.51.3.262

Rabinowitz, P., Gordon, Z., Holmes, R., Taylor, B., Wilcox, M., Chudnov, D., Nadkarni, P. & Dein, F. (2005). Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards: An Evidence-Based Analysis, EcoHealth, 2 (1) 26-37. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-004-0151-1

Rabinowitz, P., Cullen, M. & Lake, H. (1999). Wildlife as sentinels for human health hazards: a review of study designs, Journal of Environmental Medicine, 1 (4) 217-223. DOI: 10.1002/jem.33

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We Didn't Know This about Iron Before

It's amazing that we're still discovering things about our own planet at a time when we have the technology to explore planets other than our own. A study that was published in Nature Geoscience last week found that iron is weaker than previously thought. What's interesting about this is that we didn't know before this experiment how iron acted at high pressures, like those found in Earth's core.What we know about the composition of the center of the Earth is just made from inference. The […]

Gleason A.E. & Mao W.L. (2013). Strength of iron at core pressures and evidence for a weak Earth’s inner core, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1808

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The Mental Health of Lonely Marijuana Users

Mr. Lonely 1Does Smoking Pot Offer Relief to the Lonely? A new paper by the original Tylenol and social pain researchers claims that it does (Deckman et al., 2013). Let's take a closer look.Comfortably Numb: Marijuana Use Reduces Social Pain, Research FindsMarijuana use buffers people from experiencing social pain, according to research published online on May 14 in Social Psychological and Personality Science."Prior work has shown that the analgesic acetaminophen, which acts indirectly […]

Deckman, T., DeWall, C., Way, B., Gilman, R. & Richman, S. (2013). Can Marijuana Reduce Social Pain?, Social Psychological and Personality Science, DOI: 10.1177/1948550613488949

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Gran Sasso, Solar Neutrinos, and Radioactive Decay Rates

We interrupt your normal coverage of magnetic monopole searches today to bring you something much more cool from well.. the same location! I was jazzed to find out yesterday that the next monopole project I was going to write about was done at a stunningly pretty location Gran Sasso, Italy. (picture 1)Then, thanks to +Oliver Thewalt I found out about a very interesting study done regarding a possible time dependence of the decay rates of radioactive isotopes. So much for the […]

Bellotti E., Broggini C., Di Carlo G., Laubenstein M. & Menegazzo R. (2012). Search for time dependence of the 137Cs decay constant, Physics Letters B, 710 (1) 114-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.02.083

Jenkins J.H., Fischbach E., Buncher J.B., Gruenwald J.T., Krause D.E. & Mattes J.J. (2009). Evidence of correlations between nuclear decay rates and Earth–Sun distance, Astroparticle Physics, 32 (1) 42-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.05.004

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Berkeley Lab Builds ‘Artificial Forest’ to Harvest Solar Energy

Devices for artificial photosynthesis are often called “artificial leaves”. This leaves, however, are of no use unless you can create an “artificial forest” from them. Now, scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported the first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis. Read more »

Liu, C., Tang, J., Chen, H., Liu, B. & Yang, P. (2013). A Fully Integrated Nanosystem of Semiconductor Nanowires for Direct Solar Water Splitting, Nano Letters, 2147483647. DOI: 10.1021/nl401615t

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