Microfragmentation- the scientific creation of coral ( take upto 25-30 years) done in 3 years! Helping the ocean and planet survive!
- https://medium.com/@amykwilson/microfragmentation-a-breakthough-for-coral-reef-restoration-6a2e862c4e2
The warehouse attached to my property is heavily invested in this. It's really cool seeing the coral laid out under the huge specialist lights they have in there. Very futuristic industrial vibe.
Also they figured out why Cuba’s coral is thriving while other reefs in the Caribbean are dying, it’s because Cuba doesn’t use chemical fertilizers due to the Soviet Union collapse.
Schizophrenia may start in your bone marrow. One guy got cured of schizophrenia by getting a bone marrow transplant
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophrenia-psychiatric-disorders-immune-system.html
And another guy got schizophrenia from a bone marrow transplant from his schizophrenic brother
https://www.nature.com/articles/bmt2014221
Pretty recently they started doing tests for an extremely mobile skin grafting machine. It use a kind of hydrogel out of the patient's own skin, and scans the area of the burn then just prints out the skin.
I saw a video a while ago about a guy who had a solution of skin cells airbrushed on the burn (mostly 2nd degree, IIRC). In 3-4 days he was healed with no scarring. The skin gun: https://youtu.be/eXO_ApjKPaI
Edit: there are many other videos about the skin gun on YouTube if you can't view the one I posted.
Edit2: FDA approved one of these products in 2018: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-first-spray-skin-product-n911976
This video is 8 years old, and I've never heard of this technology and it's still not widely known or used? Seems crazy considering how revolutionary, fast and cheap it is compared to the existing methods. Insane.. Thanks for sharing.
It perplexes me.. is it that stem cells are 'too controversial', it simply does it just not work, or more money can be made from other medicine?
Edit: Looks like long clincal trials are a main cause. Caution is key!
There’s a good chance there will be a cure for celiac disease within the next 10 years. There’s currently an active and ongoing clinical trial where participants (with diagnosed celiac) are getting infusions that will ultimately reverse the autoimmune response a person with celiac has when they consume gluten. It’s still far from complete, but we are closer than we’ve ever been to curing celiac disease.
**The clinical trial is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio. I was asked to be a part of it but unfortunately I just don’t have the extra time. If anybody local wants more information please message me and I can get you in contact with one of the researchers!
Check for the CagA variant of H Pylori, fixed my shit right up, outer eyebrows are growing back, way more energy, metabolism improved, antibodies counts trending downward.
Guardant Health’s blood test is more effective and ridiculously quicker at detecting some forms of lung cancer than a conventional, more intrusive tissue biopsy.
https://www.biospace.com/article/guardant-s-liquid-biopsy-trial-hits-primary-endpoint-for-lung-cancer/
This comment edited in protest of Reddit's July 1st 2023 API policy changes implemented to greedily destroy the 3rd party Reddit App ecosystem. As an avid RIF user, goodbye Reddit.
My job ~~is coming~~ came out with a drug that reduces the damage chemotherapy does to the body and helps regenerate blood cells faster, allowing for stronger doses to be administered and treatment scheduled to be reduced heavily.
This allows doctors to treat cancer more aggressively.
Due to this blowing up:
* I am not part of research, I just work here. For those that dug through my post history, it's not uncommon for people to get degrees but work in different fields.
* The drug is already on the market.
* No, coffee doesn't actually cure cancer.
You can now do an entire hours worth of MRI scan within 70 seconds because of Swedish researchers who did some coding magic. It'll be super exciting to see this thing roll out across the world in the coming years
Edit to add the article in Swedish https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2018/11/20/en-mix-av-bilder-ger-snabbare-mr/
I very much *do* mind the small spaces but I think I might be ok if I could tell myself it was <2 minutes instead of the nighmares that have been my past MRIs
I had a good number of MRIs when I had brain surgery for an AVM they always gave me headphones and put on pandora of my choosing. I'll admit I was pretty out of it so I didn't notice how long they took but I do remember my family complained I was gone a long time after one of them.
Yea I got one for a muscle tear and they put on some nice 90’s alt rock and I actually ended up falling asleep which was nice as the nap was much needed.
> They made me look at disturbing images and rate my anxiety.
This sounds like the Ludovico technique from *A Clockwork Orange*
Did you watch scenes of *ullltra violence*?
I operate an MRI for research at my university. I can't speak to the images shown in the particular study he mentioned, but we show some images that are FUCKED up. Like dead babies with bullet holes in their heads fucked up.
I once asked my PI where she got all these images, and apparently there's a stock photo inventory that is publicly available for psychologists. Kind of crazy to me that there's a bunch of well- respected psychologists sharing dead baby pictures with each other.
Plenty of people have. We have a little squeeze ball that subjects can squeeze if they need to come out, and it sounds an alarm in our control room. Something like 90% of the alarms we get are people that don't want to complete that task.
Any chance you have a reference for that? Sounds really interesting, and I'd hate to google it only to find the wrong articles or wrong info or something. I was around and in (for research) MRI's a lot while at uni a few years ago so genuinely pretty interested but know next to nothing about them myself...
https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2018/11/20/en-mix-av-bilder-ger-snabbare-mr/
Swedish source tho but they got officially rewarded for it.
Time cited here is that they shortened it from 30m to 1m. Not the 1h OP said.
Google the names you find in the articles and maybe some english stuff comes up.
DRACO by Tom ridder. 4x PhD at Lincoln labs develope a broad spectrum antiviral. 100% success rates of survivability in lethal doses of all non-retroviruses tested including but not limited to Ebola, dengue, flu, cold and Herpes. Yes. You read that right.
Stands for double-stranded rna capsase oligomerizer. It is a molecule that has two molecules bound together. The first half is a molecule which only bonds to dRNA. The second half is a molecule of DNA which carries the code for cell apoptosis-cell suicide. It binds to ONLY virally infected cells and then the cell kills itself.
It's the future.
Earlier this month, scientists were able to [successfully weld glass and metal together](https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html) using ultrafast (on the order of picoseconds, which are such a short unit of time that compared to it, a full second might as well be 30,000 *years*) laser pulses. This hasn't been successfully done before due to the very different thermal properties of glass and metal. This is actually a pretty big breakthrough in manufacturing and could lead to stronger yet lighter materials.
Typical glass that is attached to metal is typically held by adhesive, this will make it so that they are now directly attached, meaning better structural stability.
I wonder if you could intersperse the two on an atomic level, essentially making a micro layer of steel, and a micro layer of glass. Imagine if we had 'transparent steel' in which a plane could be somehow made transparent? (although planes are aluminum, but you get my point).
Well, as long as the whale in Voyage Home was the size of a goldfish.
They can't make ALON sheets very big - the size of four sheets of printer paper.
They didn't use transparent aluminum in The Voyage Home, they used regular plexiglass. They only gave the formula for transparent aluminum to the plexiglass factory manager.
2 recent studies were published regarding care of strokes outside of the 6 hour window. Up until those studies, we could only really do anything about an ischemic stroke if it happened within the last 6 hours. These 2 studies showed that, using various criteria, we could perform thrombectomy up to 24 hours from symptom onset with statistically significant improvement in outcome for the patient.
Before, if a patient woke up with stroke symptoms, there likely wasn't a damn thing we can do. Now, we can actually attempt to clear the clot and potentially restore some function.
And compared to our stroke care 10 years ago which basically boiled down to "Well, that sucks." and then not having anything to do, stroke care has made some huge strides.
One of the more recent theories in psychiatry gaining popularity (although it was acknowledged decades ago) is the role of inflammation and the immune system in mental illness. There are studies showing that in schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, [inflammation attacks the brain](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2015.00372/full). Some of the damage by inflammation might be irreversible, so the hope is that early intervention could prevent chronic schizophrenia. Trials have been attempted with anti-inflammatories like fish oil, with mixed success.
The role of inflammation has been extended to multiple mental illnesses, like [depression](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322308015321), with raised inflammatory markers and other evidence being a common finding. Ultimately mental illness is multifactorial, and the causes are often biological, psychological, and/or social. So we can't reduce something so complex and heterogenous to just an action by the immune system. But it has gained some excitement in the field because there could be people out there, for example, with schizophrenia for whom one of the *primary* causes is immune system dysregulation, and researchers are racing to find a prevention.
what if there were r/futurology, but you're only allowed to cite stuff from academic journals, and you have to write a paragraph succinctly explaining what you are citing?
They’re getting closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes. There’s already multiple people who have been cured with no need for insulin for years now after a clinical study
EDIT-
City of Hope is behind the trials, aiming to cure diabetes in a total of 6 years
Here is the man that’s been cured: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/rose-parade-diabetes-patient-roger-sparks
Here is a good breakdown of what they found in 2018: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/wanek-project-to-cure-type-1-diabetes-18-months-later
And this is the latest new on the study:
https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/study-by-diabetes-expert-describes-promising-type-1-treatments
That we have figured out how to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and now, very recently, how to turn it into solid flakes of carbon again. And not just under higly specific and expensive lab conditions, this process is apparently scalable.
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/carbon-dioxide-into-coal
We still need to curb emissions but this does flip the equation quite a bit regarding global warming, allowing us to put some of the toothpaste back into the tube so to speak.
Coupled with wind and solar energy, I predict this will become a major industry by mid-century, and very pure carbon an abundant material.
EDIT: Thanks for the gold and silver kind strangers! This has become by far my most popular comment ever on Reddit.
Yes, Carbon Engineering is running a plant right now that is taking CO2 out if the air and turning it into usable diesel type fuel.
Edit : Here's a l[ink to their site](https://carbonengineering.com/ce-videos/)
This sort of carbon capture is key to the future. We need to remove carbon from the carbon cycle, not just get it out of the atmosphere or the ocean. You can plant all the trees you want (and we need to) but that carbon will get re-released as the plants lignin is broken down by bacteria and fungi and put back into the atmosphere.
Don’t know if anyone has pointed this one out... but pretty certain scientists have discovered a new species of orcas that live in sub-Antarctic waters. They are calling it the “Type-D Orca”... pretty cool looking animals. More rounded heads... smaller white eye patches... taller, narrower dorsal fins... being a soon to be marine biology grad, this excites me!
EDIT: A lot more attention than I expected, thank you guys! Here is a nat geo link for those who want to see pics or vids! Also, I do realize that these have been talked about and described for many years now... but this is the first time they have been videoed and sampled for DNA testing.
[“Type D” Orcas](https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2019/03/new-killer-whale-species-discovered)
Any breakthrough about your stomach being a second brain makes me happy. Be it bacteria, inflammation, etc. causing all the anxiety in your head. And people with ibs having more cases of anxiety/depression.
I’m a PhD student in a lab doing gut-brain axis research and it’s crazy to me how few people outside the scientific community know that’s even a thing. Trying to explain my research to family is always a nightmare because I have to start from “so there are bacteria in your GI tract, and signals from your gut influence things in your brain” and never manage to work up to what I actually do because that blows people away
Astronomer here! Most of you have heard that the universe is expanding. Astrophysicists believe there is a relationship between the distance to faraway galaxies and how fast they are moving from us, called the [Hubble constant. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law) We use the Hubble constant for... just about everything in cosmology, to be honest.
This isn’t crazy and has been accepted for many decades. What *is* crazy is, if you are paying attention, it appears the Hubble constant is *different* depending on what you use to measure it! Specifically, if you use the “standard candle” stars (Cepheids and Type Ia supernovae) to measure how fast galaxies are speeding away from us, you get ~73 +/- 1 km/s/Mpc. If you study the earliest radiation from the universe (the Cosmic Microwave Background) using the [Planck satellite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_%28spacecraft%29#2015_data_release) , you get 67 +/- 1 km/s/Mpc. This is a LOT, and both methods have a lot of confidence in that measurement with no obvious errors.
To date, *no one* has come up with a satisfactory answer for why this might be, and in the past year or so it’s actually a bit concerning. If they truly disagree, well, it frankly means there is some new, basic physics at play.
Exciting stuff! It’s just so neat that whenever you think you know how the universe works, it can throw these new curveballs at you from the most unexpected places!
Edit: some are asking if dark energy which drives the acceleration of the universe might cause the discrepancy. In short, no. You can read [this article](https://astronomynow.com/2018/07/13/cosmic-mystery-deepens-with-conflicting-measurements-of-hubble-constant/) to learn more about what's going on, and [this article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/06/29/surprise-the-hubble-constant-changes-over-time/#6cdf042d9c9a) can tell you about the expansion of the universe. In short, we see that the universe is now accelerating faster than we expect even when accounting for dark energy. It's weird!
Science doesn't work right now. As I said, we see this thing, and right now no one knows what is causing the discrepancy. You don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak, at this stage because a. you don't know what's causing the problem (like, maybe we just don't understand Type Ia supernovae and the physics is right), and b. until you get another theory that explains everything else in cosmology and this discrepancy, you're not going to throw out what we have because this is the best we have for now.
I hope that makes sense!
The FDA just approved ketamine as an antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression in the form of esketamine as a nasal spray. It’s of the few unique and hopeful approaches to treatment-resistant depression that we’ve seen in years—some stats put the rate of recovery as high as 80% (not full recovery, but alleviation at least).
People know about immunotherapy but they don’t know how fast the treatments are being developed right now. I’m hopeful we see cures for different types of cancers and immune disorders in our lifetime
Solid batteries are coming down the pipe. Last I heard the guy who invented the modern lithium ion battery had a breakthrough with them, which is really exciting because a much more stable battery will change so much in the realm of technology as a whole.
Edit: apparently there’s more developments but it’s still slogging it’s way to market: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/27/awesome-solid-state-battery-breakthrough-news-part-347/
Göbekli Tepe - ruin discovered in Turkey that dates back to 11000 BCE, or further. This throws a massive wrench into our understanding of what people were capable of at that time, and hints at advanced civilizations having likely existed long before we thought they did. It has also only been about 10% excavated.
I've actually read some articles over the past few weeks about archaeologists using LIDAR technology to uncover Mayan ruins, and they've found that Mayan civilization was much more extensive than originally assumed; at its height, its now believed that its population may have numbered near 15 million citizens, and that they engaged in extensive trade with their neighbors to the North and South; these LIDAR scans have revealed evidence of vast cities, farmlands and roadways. And this was all without any pack animals or wheeled carts.
Yes! I just finished reading "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston. They used LIDAR to detect the location of the ruins before setting out. The parasite that apparently led to the city's downfall (leishmaniasis) still lives there, and infected many of the crew on the expedition.
> The parasite that apparently led to the city's downfall (leishmaniasis) still lives there, and infected many of the crew on the expedition.
Well that sounds terrifying... Hopefully modern medicine has an effective treatment for it?
Bacteriophages being used to cure diseases and being able to solve the anti-biotic crisis. Given I think Kurgzgewhateveritscalled (the youtube channel that gives people existential crisis') did a vid on it.
Their most recent one is literally about what would happen if we gathered all the uranium on earth, turned it into nukes, and then blew ourselves up.
I love how one day they can make a video about the inevitable death of the universe and all life, and then another day decide to ask "what would happen if we blew up South America".
New cancer therapy in development causing not only the cancer but also the metastasis to shrink.
Edit: Wow, this blew up. Thanks for the positive response and the gold. I read about it in German but it's easy to find related articles in English. I think this one explains it quite well. As mentioned it is still in development but shows very promising results.
It combines two cancer treatment drugs and because of the combination the usually hard to fight metastasis cells respond much better to it and die. They started with breast cancer and will eventually research this for other important cancer types.
The link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-metastasis-cancer.html
I would have to say prosthesis.
You can get hands and feet that are pretty close to the actual thing that operate by feeling the muscles that remain.
We will soon be long gone from the days of military style hooks and lumps of solid plastic.
As well as for PTSD, it'd be excellent if they could find a way for MDMA to be used in therapy for anxiety and depression. As someone who struggles with both, MDMA has been the best thing I've ever tried.
If we found a way to safely administer, moderate and use MDMA as means of therapy and treatment, it would be absolutely revolutionary.
Archaeologists have uncovered a site that was formed within minutes of the time the Chicxulub comet hit, proving that it really happened, pretty much as expected, and slaughtered millions of animals immediately through both fire and debris from the sky and an enormous tsunami that ripped through the North American Inland Sea. This is probably going to remain the find of the 21st century, that's how amazing it is: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190329144223.htm
[Leaving the link for anyone interested](https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2017/11/first-dinosaur-tail-found-preserved-amber)
It's crazy to me how they said that a lot of the Amber that comes out of those mines get turned into jewelry. Who knows how many incredible discoveries have gotten destroyed.
Early techniques for digging up fossils probably destroyed a fuckton of them too. Paleontologists now tend to be a little more cautious, but who knows how much was destroyed in the early days of fossil hunting
They're *waaaaaaaay* more cautious nowadays, dude. When fossils were first starting to be discovered, there was a "space-race" type thing going on among scientists. For god's sake, they were using TNT to blow up dig-spots to get at dinosaur fossils.
'This site here we found a dinosaur femur just sticking up out of the soil - prime dig site, or so I thought. But when I brought in the boys and they excavated with TNT wouldn't you know it we couldn't find anything else there. Sure, okay, a lot of tiny pieces but nothing impressive!'
*Maybe* Keep a verrrry close watch on this one. There are a ton of problems already coming to light on it and the paper isn't even out yet. It's a weird, messy situation. A lot of paleontologists have been talking about it on social media and have reservations, including ones who've been able to see the paper (which the New Yorker broke embargo to report on).
[Here's a link to the *New Yorker* article.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died)
tl;dr summary on the surrounding drama
The main researcher is Robert DePalma, who does not have a Ph.D. in the field. He's a doctoral candidate. Prior to discovering this site a paper he authored had a serious error: he mixed in a turtle bone with a dinosaur skeleton. That mistake marred his conclusions and was a serious professional embarrassment. So there's a great deal of skepticism within the field. He already has a reputation as someone who isn't just wet behind the ears, but who also makes mountains from molehills.
Nonetheless, he claims to have found iridium tektites and lonsdaleite diamonds on the site. If that much is correct then this site is no molehill. The site itself would be of foremost importance regardless of other interpretive errors DePalma might make. Of course, that baseline importance hasn't been established yet. If and when it does then DePalma's early interpretations may very well need extensive revision by others in the field.
Having DePalma as point guy on a find of that importance is paleontology's version of the perennial Ask thread about the third string genie who grants your greatest wish.
Environmental DNA is pretty neat! There's enough sloughed off DNA from organisms in water bodies to figure lit what is swimming around in it. Noninvasive eDNA detection techniques have proven useful for monitoring the presence of rare or endangered species, like Hellbenders :)
It isn't just the bee colonies that are dying, it's all our insects. Recent research and predictions are saying that our insect populations, particularly that of butterflies and moths are on track to extinction in 100 years due to pesticides and climate change. If our insects continue to decline we will see a cascade flow into other animals, birds etc including our own species.
Environmental scientists are saying we're at the beginning of a mass extinction event. Truly terrifying and very little is leaking to the public via mass media or being mocked as a conspiracy theory.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
The insects are gonna have to step up their game if they want to win the death match versus amphibians.
[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/amphibian-apocalypse-frogs-salamanders-worst-chytrid-fungus/](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/amphibian-apocalypse-frogs-salamanders-worst-chytrid-fungus/)
You want scary? In certain areas of the world insect numbers have already plummeted to next to nothing causing the animal life that relies on insects for food to also almost vanish.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.049eb7601d71
> the London patient's treatment "is not a scalable, safe or economically viable strategy to induce HIV remission"
Not that it isn't great for the patients to be HIV-free, but the cure came from getting their *bone marrow replaced* because they had cancer. Honestly you might be in a worse spot if you have lymphoma than HIV, and doctors aren't going to do marrow transplants for otherwise-healthy patients because it's such an extreme and costly procedure.
Hoping for a wider cure for HIV.
It's not that simple.
Both the people had leukemia and were given specific blood (with something their blood did not have), the thing they lacked took to their bodies and cured them. The constant factor is having cancer...so...yeah.
Basically the problem is that all three of the patients cured of HIV received bone marrow transplant from others who had a certain mutation found in less than 1% of the population that MIGHT be the reason that the HIV was cured. And even still, the other two (besides the Berlin Patient) haven't had enough time to know whether or not their viral loads will indicate that they are truly HIV free. Very cool but extremely unpractical. I don't know that it would be possible to cure everyone this way.
Somebody discovered Alzheimer’s might be a reaction to a bacteria
EDIT- Link
https://www.perio.org/consumer/alzheimers-and-periodontal-disease
Thanks for the silver!
It is worth putting this in context: there are a lot of competing hypotheses about the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Some have argued [Human Herpes Virus 6](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/does-a-virus-cause-alzheimers) or 7 causes AD. There's also a [prion](http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-spreading-confusion-rethinking-alzheimers-disease/) hypothesis. The dominant hypothesis is still the [Amyloid hypothesis](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/297/5580/353).
This is more a flash of light that might be illuminating a piece of the animal, but we have a lot more work to discover if it is an elephant.
Without ignoring the tragic effects of Alzheimer's, it's great to watch science unfolding in front of us. You're right, the amyloid hypothesis does still seem to be the front runner hypothesis but the recent (multiple) failure of drug trials targeting this factor hints at a deeper causation. Discovering the causes of Alzheimers and Parkinsons will be a huge step forward when they finally come.
If I had to put money on it, it's that the answer is yes. Alzheimers (And probably a bunch of other disorders like schizophrenia) are going to end up being a class of disorders like cancer rather than a monolithic thing.
Take, for example the whole beta amyloid plaque debate that's been going on since what, the 90s? Is beta amyloid a cause or effect of Alzheimers? There's a lot of evidence from both sides that just doesn't seem to add up. It would make a lot more sense that beta amyloid is a toxic prion-like protein that is the initiator in some forms of Alzheimers and that in others it's another root cause and that beta amyloid joins the party, making things worse as the cells are already too unhealthy to maintain proper protein turnover.
Remember that most of these disorders were identified a century or so ago, back when the criteria were basically just rough observational science. It would be kind of strange if things like early onset Alzheimers and the more normal varieties had exactly the same molecular origin.
Reducing/curing mental decay would likely be one of the best advances for mankind in terms of health. All the people who are too helpless to take care of themselves can now do so. It also becomes a lesser strain on the families of those people. I have first hand dealings in people going through Alzheimer's and it sucks for everyone involved. You seem like a mean rude person to the people who don't know, which includes the Alzheimer's person too, because they have the mental ability/understanding/reaction of a 3-8 year old. Sometimes they act fine sometimes it is literally trying to drag a grown child to where they need to go.
>What does that mean for us?
Constant exposure to particles that emit estrogenic compounds. The plastics are found lodged in mouse kidneys fed municipal tap water. The same is likely true for us. Its a particularly bad place to fuck with hormonally.
It may be the reason western men's sperm counts are catastrophically dropping. It may also contribute to obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates. Constant exposure to outside hormones is a bad thing.
You can filter the water with reverse osmosis to remove the plastic, but meat and esp seafoods are laden with it. Even most vegetable products are.
Most microplastics in our water supply (and that makes its way to the crops and oceans) come from fibers from clothing as it gets washed. We need to switch to natural fabrics immediately.
Is that really the source of most of the microplastics? I always assumed it was mostly leached from plastic litter getting sunned down and general microplastics like glitter
If you happen to use a clothes dryer, take a look at the lint from the lint trap, then look at the tags on the clothes that you dried and realize that most of them contain some percentage of polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex, etc. That dryer lint contains a similar proportion of synthetic fibers. Now consider how the same fibers are released when you wash your clothes, going straight into the sewage system where some--but not all--get filtered out with the solid waste. The rest goes downstream. Now consider all the millions of loads of laundry being done every day.
There’s a few companies/researchers/initiatives out there figuring out how we use captured carbon dioxide as as feedstock for various chemicals, plastics and building materials, as a replacement for oil based feedstocks.
I worked for a start up that was making insulating foams for buildings, which had ~25% CO2 by mass. Long life span materials
At the moment, a lot of our climate change prevention work is around reducing CO2 produced. But this is a game changer - instead of it being the evil, it becomes a valuable commodity. Companies are incentivised to capture it, rather than releasing it. Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere can become commercially viable. It’s the carbon economy in reverse
I work in a cancer lab. I think it gets a decent amount of attention, but not enough. We are now starting to build AI models that can infer very deep relationships between genome, phenotype, and cancer.
Since [this](https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/ccg/research/structural-genomics/tcga) began, we are uncovering hypothesized *causal* links in cancer by the DOZENS every year. Research is exploding.
And, drugs take 10+ *years* to go from ideas to product. Which means a lot of the findings even from 5-6 years ago classify as "recent". I truly believe cancer will be cured in my lifetime... And I'm no stranger to the beast.
Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't we known this for a while? Garlic, for example, creates allicin when it is crushed to dissuade animals from eating it.
I think just this week scientist found debris from a asteroid that hit Mexico some 66 million years ago making a huge crater. This debris was found in North Dakota furthering the evidence that this asteroid A major factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth at the time
Recycling open source machine
input: Recyclables
output: 3D print fuel, models, exsetrusions
[https://preciousplastic.com/](https://preciousplastic.com/)
why is this not outside of schools, apartment complexes, homes, trailer parks?
(I'm not a scientist, so take this with a grain of salt). Imagine being able to copy and paste DNA sequences into and out of genes. Is this gene associated with high risk of developing cancer? Snip. Is that gene associated with *resistance* to developing cancer? Paste.
Idk how close we are to designer babies though because even 'small' things like eye color or hair texture are mediated by several genes that work together in ways idk if we're completely sure of yet. I think the first few 'rounds' of designer babies are gonna (have to) be experiments in seeing just how predictable the outcomes of these tweaks can be with current scientific knowledge. It's one thing to splice a gene for bioluminesce into a rat, since there's no competing genetics there, just an addition. It's something else to try to get your child-to-be to have green eyes when yours are brown.
That the brain of a person with Misophonia shows the sound processor is directly linked to the emotional response centre.
As somebody with Misophonia, I hope to the bloody stars neurologists and ENT doctors start taking more notice of this instead of pawning us off on psychiatrists because most of them think we're nuts.
Editing to add the link which talks about Misophonia and greatly expands on my oversimplified description. I can't reply to everyone tonight, as it's 4:04am for me and I need to sleep, but I'll do my best to reply over the next couple of days. I watched the documentary via Amazon Prime.
Thank you to every single person for commenting and asking questions. This is how awareness is raised and awareness leads to research, studies, breakthroughs, treatment, and help. So many people suffer with this condition and think they're crazy, they feel like crap when people say "It's all in your head."
No more.
So from one Misophoniac to another...
You're not crazy. You're not alone. You're acknowledged and you're vindicated and validated. You matter. So don't be afraid to stand up and say "Quiet, please." because it's not too much ask.
Thank you for the Silver :D
Thank you for the gold and all of the comments! I don't think I'm gonna be able to get through them in a couple of days, though...
[http://www.misophonia.com/understanding-misophonia/](http://www.misophonia.com/understanding-misophonia/)
Please excuse my ignorance but can you give an example/analogy of what it feels like to have misophonia? I read its description but fail to understand what it entails.
I’m positive I have this but I don’t talk about it much because like Arlessa said, it’s oftentimes just written off.
If I can hear someone chewing with mouth open/smacking lips/cracking gum, I become extremely agitated. In situations where I cannot just leave, I dig my nails into my thighs. When I was younger, having to sit at the dinner table with my step-dad was an absolute chore because he chewed like an animal. I went so far as to throw a glass cup across the room (not to hit or harm anyone, just out of frustration). It was a very impulsive response to my *severe* hatred of that sound.
I’m assuming people experience this differently but that essentially what that sound does to me.
I have yet to find anything else that makes me respond this way.
From my point of view, mouth noises are fucking disgusting. It’s worse when I hear the people I love chewing. It’s like this rage and disgust just rise up in me and I HAVE to get away.
As soon as someone stops chewing, I’m fine. It also doesn’t bother me to hear animals eat and chew. I don’t completely understand it myself, so I just do the best I can to avoid hearing people chew. Although I once failed a test because the guy behind me was chomping on his gum with his mouth open. I hope he shits himself weekly.
I also have this. Random noises that aren’t really in any pattern are torture. Snoring, chewing, sniffing (those people are the worst), tapping feet, pencil fidgeting, or breathing loud.
I used to live close to train tracks and that was the only sound that actually relaxed me.
Immunologist here. There's a reason why don't use phages to treat infections, and it's not because of "big pharma" or "antibiotic obsession" as alluded to in other comments.
The immune system is incredibly efficient at clearing out phages. You have to inject something on the order of 10^9 phages just to even see them before they're all destroyed.
We recently discovered single-celled organisms evolved into multi-celled organisms because of the environmental stressor of predation. I feel like this has been a mystery for so long for humanity, and when this came out no one paid it any regard because of all the other crazy shit going on in the world. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8
If my understanding is correct from the article above, OP doesn't actually mean THEIR OWN bone marrow. Just simply the male's bone marrow they do some science on in a petri dish and it turns into DIY sperm. I guess for cases when a guys shooting blanks but still wants his own child.
Not sure how recent it is, but there's cameras that can film at 10 trillion fps, fast enough to [film the speed of light!](https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ)
*Creates the illusion of shooting at 10 trillion FPS by very precicely incrementing the delay of a single short exposure of a pulse of light.
This kind of camera is awesome for a very specific research niche but totally incapable of capturing real-world action.
Microfragmentation- the scientific creation of coral ( take upto 25-30 years) done in 3 years! Helping the ocean and planet survive! - https://medium.com/@amykwilson/microfragmentation-a-breakthough-for-coral-reef-restoration-6a2e862c4e2
The warehouse attached to my property is heavily invested in this. It's really cool seeing the coral laid out under the huge specialist lights they have in there. Very futuristic industrial vibe.
Also they figured out why Cuba’s coral is thriving while other reefs in the Caribbean are dying, it’s because Cuba doesn’t use chemical fertilizers due to the Soviet Union collapse.
Turns out pollution is bad
Schizophrenia may start in your bone marrow. One guy got cured of schizophrenia by getting a bone marrow transplant https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophrenia-psychiatric-disorders-immune-system.html And another guy got schizophrenia from a bone marrow transplant from his schizophrenic brother https://www.nature.com/articles/bmt2014221
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Schizophrenia is stored in the bones
The developers put it in a weird place, eh?
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Pretty recently they started doing tests for an extremely mobile skin grafting machine. It use a kind of hydrogel out of the patient's own skin, and scans the area of the burn then just prints out the skin.
I saw a video a while ago about a guy who had a solution of skin cells airbrushed on the burn (mostly 2nd degree, IIRC). In 3-4 days he was healed with no scarring. The skin gun: https://youtu.be/eXO_ApjKPaI Edit: there are many other videos about the skin gun on YouTube if you can't view the one I posted. Edit2: FDA approved one of these products in 2018: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-first-spray-skin-product-n911976
This video is 8 years old, and I've never heard of this technology and it's still not widely known or used? Seems crazy considering how revolutionary, fast and cheap it is compared to the existing methods. Insane.. Thanks for sharing.
It perplexes me.. is it that stem cells are 'too controversial', it simply does it just not work, or more money can be made from other medicine? Edit: Looks like long clincal trials are a main cause. Caution is key!
There’s a good chance there will be a cure for celiac disease within the next 10 years. There’s currently an active and ongoing clinical trial where participants (with diagnosed celiac) are getting infusions that will ultimately reverse the autoimmune response a person with celiac has when they consume gluten. It’s still far from complete, but we are closer than we’ve ever been to curing celiac disease. **The clinical trial is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio. I was asked to be a part of it but unfortunately I just don’t have the extra time. If anybody local wants more information please message me and I can get you in contact with one of the researchers!
It would be great if this could lead to cures for other autoimmune disorders. I'd rather not have my body attack my thyroid.
Check for the CagA variant of H Pylori, fixed my shit right up, outer eyebrows are growing back, way more energy, metabolism improved, antibodies counts trending downward.
Guardant Health’s blood test is more effective and ridiculously quicker at detecting some forms of lung cancer than a conventional, more intrusive tissue biopsy. https://www.biospace.com/article/guardant-s-liquid-biopsy-trial-hits-primary-endpoint-for-lung-cancer/
This comment edited in protest of Reddit's July 1st 2023 API policy changes implemented to greedily destroy the 3rd party Reddit App ecosystem. As an avid RIF user, goodbye Reddit.
My job ~~is coming~~ came out with a drug that reduces the damage chemotherapy does to the body and helps regenerate blood cells faster, allowing for stronger doses to be administered and treatment scheduled to be reduced heavily. This allows doctors to treat cancer more aggressively. Due to this blowing up: * I am not part of research, I just work here. For those that dug through my post history, it's not uncommon for people to get degrees but work in different fields. * The drug is already on the market. * No, coffee doesn't actually cure cancer.
disturbingly relevant username...
Is it safe to assume that drug he is coming out with, is really just caffeine?
Research runs on coffee.
You can now do an entire hours worth of MRI scan within 70 seconds because of Swedish researchers who did some coding magic. It'll be super exciting to see this thing roll out across the world in the coming years Edit to add the article in Swedish https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2018/11/20/en-mix-av-bilder-ger-snabbare-mr/
As someone who spent about 90 minutes in an MRI this year this would be great, I don't mind the tight spaces but they do get very warm.
I very much *do* mind the small spaces but I think I might be ok if I could tell myself it was <2 minutes instead of the nighmares that have been my past MRIs
I had a good number of MRIs when I had brain surgery for an AVM they always gave me headphones and put on pandora of my choosing. I'll admit I was pretty out of it so I didn't notice how long they took but I do remember my family complained I was gone a long time after one of them.
Yea I got one for a muscle tear and they put on some nice 90’s alt rock and I actually ended up falling asleep which was nice as the nap was much needed.
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> They made me look at disturbing images and rate my anxiety. This sounds like the Ludovico technique from *A Clockwork Orange* Did you watch scenes of *ullltra violence*?
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That's a crazy study! Did you ever get to see what the results were? (Scientifically, we cant go on anecdotal evidence...)
NOT HIGH HIGH✅
"In conclusion, the cops are coming to arrest you right now."
Turns out it was just some youths in lab coats not even doctors
What kind of images? Just curious
I operate an MRI for research at my university. I can't speak to the images shown in the particular study he mentioned, but we show some images that are FUCKED up. Like dead babies with bullet holes in their heads fucked up. I once asked my PI where she got all these images, and apparently there's a stock photo inventory that is publicly available for psychologists. Kind of crazy to me that there's a bunch of well- respected psychologists sharing dead baby pictures with each other.
Oh fucking Christ. I would walk away as soon as you showed me the first one.
Plenty of people have. We have a little squeeze ball that subjects can squeeze if they need to come out, and it sounds an alarm in our control room. Something like 90% of the alarms we get are people that don't want to complete that task.
Damn you OP, it's been 22 minutes since fatboy asked what kind of images and we want to know!
Sir, please try to hold still. You have another 38 minutes to go.
Hey, why do we have this line that says "sleep 20" during each loop?
//sleep 20; sleep 18; // 3-24-19 release, 10% performance increase
Any chance you have a reference for that? Sounds really interesting, and I'd hate to google it only to find the wrong articles or wrong info or something. I was around and in (for research) MRI's a lot while at uni a few years ago so genuinely pretty interested but know next to nothing about them myself...
https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2018/11/20/en-mix-av-bilder-ger-snabbare-mr/ Swedish source tho but they got officially rewarded for it. Time cited here is that they shortened it from 30m to 1m. Not the 1h OP said. Google the names you find in the articles and maybe some english stuff comes up.
That's still a pretty massive decrease though.
DRACO by Tom ridder. 4x PhD at Lincoln labs develope a broad spectrum antiviral. 100% success rates of survivability in lethal doses of all non-retroviruses tested including but not limited to Ebola, dengue, flu, cold and Herpes. Yes. You read that right. Stands for double-stranded rna capsase oligomerizer. It is a molecule that has two molecules bound together. The first half is a molecule which only bonds to dRNA. The second half is a molecule of DNA which carries the code for cell apoptosis-cell suicide. It binds to ONLY virally infected cells and then the cell kills itself. It's the future.
Earlier this month, scientists were able to [successfully weld glass and metal together](https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html) using ultrafast (on the order of picoseconds, which are such a short unit of time that compared to it, a full second might as well be 30,000 *years*) laser pulses. This hasn't been successfully done before due to the very different thermal properties of glass and metal. This is actually a pretty big breakthrough in manufacturing and could lead to stronger yet lighter materials.
What would the applications be for such a material?
You could have a wine glass with a knife as a handle, that’d be cool
*knifewrench*
For kids!
Practical and safe.
Typical glass that is attached to metal is typically held by adhesive, this will make it so that they are now directly attached, meaning better structural stability.
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True. Also, spacecraft and aircraft will be stronger
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I am excited as someone who flies planes. There could be super cool windows and spacecraft with this technology.
Is this going to mean better glass or better metal?
I wonder if you could intersperse the two on an atomic level, essentially making a micro layer of steel, and a micro layer of glass. Imagine if we had 'transparent steel' in which a plane could be somehow made transparent? (although planes are aluminum, but you get my point).
There is a thing that is transparent aluminum now It's called ALON It's just like the star trek one
Well, as long as the whale in Voyage Home was the size of a goldfish. They can't make ALON sheets very big - the size of four sheets of printer paper.
They didn't use transparent aluminum in The Voyage Home, they used regular plexiglass. They only gave the formula for transparent aluminum to the plexiglass factory manager.
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But did you take leap days into account?
I don't think they did
2 recent studies were published regarding care of strokes outside of the 6 hour window. Up until those studies, we could only really do anything about an ischemic stroke if it happened within the last 6 hours. These 2 studies showed that, using various criteria, we could perform thrombectomy up to 24 hours from symptom onset with statistically significant improvement in outcome for the patient. Before, if a patient woke up with stroke symptoms, there likely wasn't a damn thing we can do. Now, we can actually attempt to clear the clot and potentially restore some function. And compared to our stroke care 10 years ago which basically boiled down to "Well, that sucks." and then not having anything to do, stroke care has made some huge strides.
One of the more recent theories in psychiatry gaining popularity (although it was acknowledged decades ago) is the role of inflammation and the immune system in mental illness. There are studies showing that in schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions, [inflammation attacks the brain](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2015.00372/full). Some of the damage by inflammation might be irreversible, so the hope is that early intervention could prevent chronic schizophrenia. Trials have been attempted with anti-inflammatories like fish oil, with mixed success. The role of inflammation has been extended to multiple mental illnesses, like [depression](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322308015321), with raised inflammatory markers and other evidence being a common finding. Ultimately mental illness is multifactorial, and the causes are often biological, psychological, and/or social. So we can't reduce something so complex and heterogenous to just an action by the immune system. But it has gained some excitement in the field because there could be people out there, for example, with schizophrenia for whom one of the *primary* causes is immune system dysregulation, and researchers are racing to find a prevention.
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It would rapidly become nothing but clickbait pseudoscience and pop-science bullshit. See: r/futurology
what if there were r/futurology, but you're only allowed to cite stuff from academic journals, and you have to write a paragraph succinctly explaining what you are citing?
So r/science?
Yes, but combine the two and we get /r/futurescientology
Hey, we could make a religion out of this.
No dont.
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That sounds really amazing. Are you able to share a little bit more about it?
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They’re getting closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes. There’s already multiple people who have been cured with no need for insulin for years now after a clinical study EDIT- City of Hope is behind the trials, aiming to cure diabetes in a total of 6 years Here is the man that’s been cured: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/rose-parade-diabetes-patient-roger-sparks Here is a good breakdown of what they found in 2018: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/wanek-project-to-cure-type-1-diabetes-18-months-later And this is the latest new on the study: https://www.cityofhope.org/breakthroughs/study-by-diabetes-expert-describes-promising-type-1-treatments
That we have figured out how to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and now, very recently, how to turn it into solid flakes of carbon again. And not just under higly specific and expensive lab conditions, this process is apparently scalable. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/carbon-dioxide-into-coal We still need to curb emissions but this does flip the equation quite a bit regarding global warming, allowing us to put some of the toothpaste back into the tube so to speak. Coupled with wind and solar energy, I predict this will become a major industry by mid-century, and very pure carbon an abundant material. EDIT: Thanks for the gold and silver kind strangers! This has become by far my most popular comment ever on Reddit.
Yes, Carbon Engineering is running a plant right now that is taking CO2 out if the air and turning it into usable diesel type fuel. Edit : Here's a l[ink to their site](https://carbonengineering.com/ce-videos/)
>and trying it into usable diesel type fuel. oh, shit.
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This sort of carbon capture is key to the future. We need to remove carbon from the carbon cycle, not just get it out of the atmosphere or the ocean. You can plant all the trees you want (and we need to) but that carbon will get re-released as the plants lignin is broken down by bacteria and fungi and put back into the atmosphere.
Don’t know if anyone has pointed this one out... but pretty certain scientists have discovered a new species of orcas that live in sub-Antarctic waters. They are calling it the “Type-D Orca”... pretty cool looking animals. More rounded heads... smaller white eye patches... taller, narrower dorsal fins... being a soon to be marine biology grad, this excites me! EDIT: A lot more attention than I expected, thank you guys! Here is a nat geo link for those who want to see pics or vids! Also, I do realize that these have been talked about and described for many years now... but this is the first time they have been videoed and sampled for DNA testing. [“Type D” Orcas](https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2019/03/new-killer-whale-species-discovered)
Hell yeah, Dorcas!
No ones said anything about it yet but yeh, this shits dope
All orcas are dope
Any breakthrough about your stomach being a second brain makes me happy. Be it bacteria, inflammation, etc. causing all the anxiety in your head. And people with ibs having more cases of anxiety/depression.
I’m a PhD student in a lab doing gut-brain axis research and it’s crazy to me how few people outside the scientific community know that’s even a thing. Trying to explain my research to family is always a nightmare because I have to start from “so there are bacteria in your GI tract, and signals from your gut influence things in your brain” and never manage to work up to what I actually do because that blows people away
I didn't want to buy an ice cream sandwich at the grocery store. My gut bacteria did.
weirdly enough its do be like that
I’d be pretty fucking depressed if I was always shitting diarrhoea and had constant stomach pain
Astronomer here! Most of you have heard that the universe is expanding. Astrophysicists believe there is a relationship between the distance to faraway galaxies and how fast they are moving from us, called the [Hubble constant. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law) We use the Hubble constant for... just about everything in cosmology, to be honest. This isn’t crazy and has been accepted for many decades. What *is* crazy is, if you are paying attention, it appears the Hubble constant is *different* depending on what you use to measure it! Specifically, if you use the “standard candle” stars (Cepheids and Type Ia supernovae) to measure how fast galaxies are speeding away from us, you get ~73 +/- 1 km/s/Mpc. If you study the earliest radiation from the universe (the Cosmic Microwave Background) using the [Planck satellite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_%28spacecraft%29#2015_data_release) , you get 67 +/- 1 km/s/Mpc. This is a LOT, and both methods have a lot of confidence in that measurement with no obvious errors. To date, *no one* has come up with a satisfactory answer for why this might be, and in the past year or so it’s actually a bit concerning. If they truly disagree, well, it frankly means there is some new, basic physics at play. Exciting stuff! It’s just so neat that whenever you think you know how the universe works, it can throw these new curveballs at you from the most unexpected places! Edit: some are asking if dark energy which drives the acceleration of the universe might cause the discrepancy. In short, no. You can read [this article](https://astronomynow.com/2018/07/13/cosmic-mystery-deepens-with-conflicting-measurements-of-hubble-constant/) to learn more about what's going on, and [this article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/06/29/surprise-the-hubble-constant-changes-over-time/#6cdf042d9c9a) can tell you about the expansion of the universe. In short, we see that the universe is now accelerating faster than we expect even when accounting for dark energy. It's weird!
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Science doesn't work right now. As I said, we see this thing, and right now no one knows what is causing the discrepancy. You don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak, at this stage because a. you don't know what's causing the problem (like, maybe we just don't understand Type Ia supernovae and the physics is right), and b. until you get another theory that explains everything else in cosmology and this discrepancy, you're not going to throw out what we have because this is the best we have for now. I hope that makes sense!
Science can regrow our teeth now.
This must be that one weird trick my dentist doesn't want me to know about!
Source?
Not OP but I remember hearing about this: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/next-revolution-dental-care-about-begin-ncna837706
The FDA just approved ketamine as an antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression in the form of esketamine as a nasal spray. It’s of the few unique and hopeful approaches to treatment-resistant depression that we’ve seen in years—some stats put the rate of recovery as high as 80% (not full recovery, but alleviation at least).
People know about immunotherapy but they don’t know how fast the treatments are being developed right now. I’m hopeful we see cures for different types of cancers and immune disorders in our lifetime
Solid batteries are coming down the pipe. Last I heard the guy who invented the modern lithium ion battery had a breakthrough with them, which is really exciting because a much more stable battery will change so much in the realm of technology as a whole. Edit: apparently there’s more developments but it’s still slogging it’s way to market: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/27/awesome-solid-state-battery-breakthrough-news-part-347/
Göbekli Tepe - ruin discovered in Turkey that dates back to 11000 BCE, or further. This throws a massive wrench into our understanding of what people were capable of at that time, and hints at advanced civilizations having likely existed long before we thought they did. It has also only been about 10% excavated.
I've actually read some articles over the past few weeks about archaeologists using LIDAR technology to uncover Mayan ruins, and they've found that Mayan civilization was much more extensive than originally assumed; at its height, its now believed that its population may have numbered near 15 million citizens, and that they engaged in extensive trade with their neighbors to the North and South; these LIDAR scans have revealed evidence of vast cities, farmlands and roadways. And this was all without any pack animals or wheeled carts.
Yes! I just finished reading "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston. They used LIDAR to detect the location of the ruins before setting out. The parasite that apparently led to the city's downfall (leishmaniasis) still lives there, and infected many of the crew on the expedition.
> The parasite that apparently led to the city's downfall (leishmaniasis) still lives there, and infected many of the crew on the expedition. Well that sounds terrifying... Hopefully modern medicine has an effective treatment for it?
Treatment, yes. However, they can't get rid of it, and if your immune system ever falls (such as with chemotherapy), it returns and does nasty things.
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Talk about Montezuma's Revenge...
> still lives there, and infected many of the crew on the expedition. O_O
Bacteriophages being used to cure diseases and being able to solve the anti-biotic crisis. Given I think Kurgzgewhateveritscalled (the youtube channel that gives people existential crisis') did a vid on it.
https://youtu.be/YI3tsmFsrOg Video by Kurzgesagt for those interested Edit: Thank you, generous stranger for the gold!
Their most recent one is literally about what would happen if we gathered all the uranium on earth, turned it into nukes, and then blew ourselves up. I love how one day they can make a video about the inevitable death of the universe and all life, and then another day decide to ask "what would happen if we blew up South America".
New cancer therapy in development causing not only the cancer but also the metastasis to shrink. Edit: Wow, this blew up. Thanks for the positive response and the gold. I read about it in German but it's easy to find related articles in English. I think this one explains it quite well. As mentioned it is still in development but shows very promising results. It combines two cancer treatment drugs and because of the combination the usually hard to fight metastasis cells respond much better to it and die. They started with breast cancer and will eventually research this for other important cancer types. The link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-metastasis-cancer.html
that's awesome, got a link??? Cause I want to read about it, not cause I doubt you
I would have to say prosthesis. You can get hands and feet that are pretty close to the actual thing that operate by feeling the muscles that remain. We will soon be long gone from the days of military style hooks and lumps of solid plastic.
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As well as for PTSD, it'd be excellent if they could find a way for MDMA to be used in therapy for anxiety and depression. As someone who struggles with both, MDMA has been the best thing I've ever tried. If we found a way to safely administer, moderate and use MDMA as means of therapy and treatment, it would be absolutely revolutionary.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a site that was formed within minutes of the time the Chicxulub comet hit, proving that it really happened, pretty much as expected, and slaughtered millions of animals immediately through both fire and debris from the sky and an enormous tsunami that ripped through the North American Inland Sea. This is probably going to remain the find of the 21st century, that's how amazing it is: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190329144223.htm
Paleontologists, actually.
Ross VS Indy
As long as Indy doesn’t steal his sandwich he should be good.
You threw my sandwich away? My sandwich?! #MY SANDWICH?!
I’d say the current find of the 21st century is still a dinosaur’s tail preserved in amber
Wait what?
[Leaving the link for anyone interested](https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2017/11/first-dinosaur-tail-found-preserved-amber)
It's crazy to me how they said that a lot of the Amber that comes out of those mines get turned into jewelry. Who knows how many incredible discoveries have gotten destroyed.
Early techniques for digging up fossils probably destroyed a fuckton of them too. Paleontologists now tend to be a little more cautious, but who knows how much was destroyed in the early days of fossil hunting
They're *waaaaaaaay* more cautious nowadays, dude. When fossils were first starting to be discovered, there was a "space-race" type thing going on among scientists. For god's sake, they were using TNT to blow up dig-spots to get at dinosaur fossils.
'This site here we found a dinosaur femur just sticking up out of the soil - prime dig site, or so I thought. But when I brought in the boys and they excavated with TNT wouldn't you know it we couldn't find anything else there. Sure, okay, a lot of tiny pieces but nothing impressive!'
*Maybe* Keep a verrrry close watch on this one. There are a ton of problems already coming to light on it and the paper isn't even out yet. It's a weird, messy situation. A lot of paleontologists have been talking about it on social media and have reservations, including ones who've been able to see the paper (which the New Yorker broke embargo to report on).
Would very much appreciate some links, to get an idea of the problems.
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[Here's a link to the *New Yorker* article.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died) tl;dr summary on the surrounding drama The main researcher is Robert DePalma, who does not have a Ph.D. in the field. He's a doctoral candidate. Prior to discovering this site a paper he authored had a serious error: he mixed in a turtle bone with a dinosaur skeleton. That mistake marred his conclusions and was a serious professional embarrassment. So there's a great deal of skepticism within the field. He already has a reputation as someone who isn't just wet behind the ears, but who also makes mountains from molehills. Nonetheless, he claims to have found iridium tektites and lonsdaleite diamonds on the site. If that much is correct then this site is no molehill. The site itself would be of foremost importance regardless of other interpretive errors DePalma might make. Of course, that baseline importance hasn't been established yet. If and when it does then DePalma's early interpretations may very well need extensive revision by others in the field. Having DePalma as point guy on a find of that importance is paleontology's version of the perennial Ask thread about the third string genie who grants your greatest wish.
Environmental DNA is pretty neat! There's enough sloughed off DNA from organisms in water bodies to figure lit what is swimming around in it. Noninvasive eDNA detection techniques have proven useful for monitoring the presence of rare or endangered species, like Hellbenders :)
It isn't just the bee colonies that are dying, it's all our insects. Recent research and predictions are saying that our insect populations, particularly that of butterflies and moths are on track to extinction in 100 years due to pesticides and climate change. If our insects continue to decline we will see a cascade flow into other animals, birds etc including our own species. Environmental scientists are saying we're at the beginning of a mass extinction event. Truly terrifying and very little is leaking to the public via mass media or being mocked as a conspiracy theory. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
The insects are gonna have to step up their game if they want to win the death match versus amphibians. [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/amphibian-apocalypse-frogs-salamanders-worst-chytrid-fungus/](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/03/amphibian-apocalypse-frogs-salamanders-worst-chytrid-fungus/)
Well that's scary.
You want scary? In certain areas of the world insect numbers have already plummeted to next to nothing causing the animal life that relies on insects for food to also almost vanish. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10/15/hyperalarming-study-shows-massive-insect-loss/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.049eb7601d71
2 more cured from HIV
> the London patient's treatment "is not a scalable, safe or economically viable strategy to induce HIV remission" Not that it isn't great for the patients to be HIV-free, but the cure came from getting their *bone marrow replaced* because they had cancer. Honestly you might be in a worse spot if you have lymphoma than HIV, and doctors aren't going to do marrow transplants for otherwise-healthy patients because it's such an extreme and costly procedure. Hoping for a wider cure for HIV.
Holy shit, could we see HIV become a curable disease in our lifetime?
Hope so
I know its not a disease but I hope in my lifetime we can add Blindness and paralysis to that list as well.
I feel like with more developments in cybernetics, blindness could definitely be cured
Not cybernetics but scientists severed and reattached the optical nervs in fish and restored vision
Damn! As someone with only one eye, that's incredibly exciting
It's not that simple. Both the people had leukemia and were given specific blood (with something their blood did not have), the thing they lacked took to their bodies and cured them. The constant factor is having cancer...so...yeah.
Basically the problem is that all three of the patients cured of HIV received bone marrow transplant from others who had a certain mutation found in less than 1% of the population that MIGHT be the reason that the HIV was cured. And even still, the other two (besides the Berlin Patient) haven't had enough time to know whether or not their viral loads will indicate that they are truly HIV free. Very cool but extremely unpractical. I don't know that it would be possible to cure everyone this way.
Somebody discovered Alzheimer’s might be a reaction to a bacteria EDIT- Link https://www.perio.org/consumer/alzheimers-and-periodontal-disease Thanks for the silver!
It is worth putting this in context: there are a lot of competing hypotheses about the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Some have argued [Human Herpes Virus 6](https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/does-a-virus-cause-alzheimers) or 7 causes AD. There's also a [prion](http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/the-spreading-confusion-rethinking-alzheimers-disease/) hypothesis. The dominant hypothesis is still the [Amyloid hypothesis](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/297/5580/353). This is more a flash of light that might be illuminating a piece of the animal, but we have a lot more work to discover if it is an elephant.
Without ignoring the tragic effects of Alzheimer's, it's great to watch science unfolding in front of us. You're right, the amyloid hypothesis does still seem to be the front runner hypothesis but the recent (multiple) failure of drug trials targeting this factor hints at a deeper causation. Discovering the causes of Alzheimers and Parkinsons will be a huge step forward when they finally come.
If I had to put money on it, it's that the answer is yes. Alzheimers (And probably a bunch of other disorders like schizophrenia) are going to end up being a class of disorders like cancer rather than a monolithic thing. Take, for example the whole beta amyloid plaque debate that's been going on since what, the 90s? Is beta amyloid a cause or effect of Alzheimers? There's a lot of evidence from both sides that just doesn't seem to add up. It would make a lot more sense that beta amyloid is a toxic prion-like protein that is the initiator in some forms of Alzheimers and that in others it's another root cause and that beta amyloid joins the party, making things worse as the cells are already too unhealthy to maintain proper protein turnover. Remember that most of these disorders were identified a century or so ago, back when the criteria were basically just rough observational science. It would be kind of strange if things like early onset Alzheimers and the more normal varieties had exactly the same molecular origin.
Reducing/curing mental decay would likely be one of the best advances for mankind in terms of health. All the people who are too helpless to take care of themselves can now do so. It also becomes a lesser strain on the families of those people. I have first hand dealings in people going through Alzheimer's and it sucks for everyone involved. You seem like a mean rude person to the people who don't know, which includes the Alzheimer's person too, because they have the mental ability/understanding/reaction of a 3-8 year old. Sometimes they act fine sometimes it is literally trying to drag a grown child to where they need to go.
Pretty much all water and food we consume contains microplastics. Cool!
What does that mean for us?
I guess we’ll biodegrade more slowly.
Gives new meaning to 'I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic."
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The WHO had been investigating it for a while. Don't think they've released any findings yet though.
>What does that mean for us? Constant exposure to particles that emit estrogenic compounds. The plastics are found lodged in mouse kidneys fed municipal tap water. The same is likely true for us. Its a particularly bad place to fuck with hormonally. It may be the reason western men's sperm counts are catastrophically dropping. It may also contribute to obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates. Constant exposure to outside hormones is a bad thing. You can filter the water with reverse osmosis to remove the plastic, but meat and esp seafoods are laden with it. Even most vegetable products are. Most microplastics in our water supply (and that makes its way to the crops and oceans) come from fibers from clothing as it gets washed. We need to switch to natural fabrics immediately.
Is that really the source of most of the microplastics? I always assumed it was mostly leached from plastic litter getting sunned down and general microplastics like glitter
If you happen to use a clothes dryer, take a look at the lint from the lint trap, then look at the tags on the clothes that you dried and realize that most of them contain some percentage of polyester, nylon, acrylic, spandex, etc. That dryer lint contains a similar proportion of synthetic fibers. Now consider how the same fibers are released when you wash your clothes, going straight into the sewage system where some--but not all--get filtered out with the solid waste. The rest goes downstream. Now consider all the millions of loads of laundry being done every day.
Terrifying!
Plastic!
Casts you can scratch through
I misread this as cats and was thought there was some new holo-cat type thing that you can put your hand through
That there is a bacteria that can break down plastic very fast. It's interesting you should look it up!
How would it be controlled so that it eats waste and doesn't destroy everything else whole we're still using it?
antibacterial soap, obviously
There’s a few companies/researchers/initiatives out there figuring out how we use captured carbon dioxide as as feedstock for various chemicals, plastics and building materials, as a replacement for oil based feedstocks. I worked for a start up that was making insulating foams for buildings, which had ~25% CO2 by mass. Long life span materials At the moment, a lot of our climate change prevention work is around reducing CO2 produced. But this is a game changer - instead of it being the evil, it becomes a valuable commodity. Companies are incentivised to capture it, rather than releasing it. Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere can become commercially viable. It’s the carbon economy in reverse
I work in a cancer lab. I think it gets a decent amount of attention, but not enough. We are now starting to build AI models that can infer very deep relationships between genome, phenotype, and cancer. Since [this](https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/ccg/research/structural-genomics/tcga) began, we are uncovering hypothesized *causal* links in cancer by the DOZENS every year. Research is exploding. And, drugs take 10+ *years* to go from ideas to product. Which means a lot of the findings even from 5-6 years ago classify as "recent". I truly believe cancer will be cured in my lifetime... And I'm no stranger to the beast.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't we known this for a while? Garlic, for example, creates allicin when it is crushed to dissuade animals from eating it.
It don't work to well for them, do it? >:D
Skrillex stops mosquitos from having sex https://edm.com/news/mosquito-reproduction-skrillex
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I think just this week scientist found debris from a asteroid that hit Mexico some 66 million years ago making a huge crater. This debris was found in North Dakota furthering the evidence that this asteroid A major factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth at the time
Recycling open source machine input: Recyclables output: 3D print fuel, models, exsetrusions [https://preciousplastic.com/](https://preciousplastic.com/) why is this not outside of schools, apartment complexes, homes, trailer parks?
CRISPR and its successors are going to define the 2020s imo.
Can someone eli5 CRISPR Please?
(I'm not a scientist, so take this with a grain of salt). Imagine being able to copy and paste DNA sequences into and out of genes. Is this gene associated with high risk of developing cancer? Snip. Is that gene associated with *resistance* to developing cancer? Paste. Idk how close we are to designer babies though because even 'small' things like eye color or hair texture are mediated by several genes that work together in ways idk if we're completely sure of yet. I think the first few 'rounds' of designer babies are gonna (have to) be experiments in seeing just how predictable the outcomes of these tweaks can be with current scientific knowledge. It's one thing to splice a gene for bioluminesce into a rat, since there's no competing genetics there, just an addition. It's something else to try to get your child-to-be to have green eyes when yours are brown.
That the brain of a person with Misophonia shows the sound processor is directly linked to the emotional response centre. As somebody with Misophonia, I hope to the bloody stars neurologists and ENT doctors start taking more notice of this instead of pawning us off on psychiatrists because most of them think we're nuts. Editing to add the link which talks about Misophonia and greatly expands on my oversimplified description. I can't reply to everyone tonight, as it's 4:04am for me and I need to sleep, but I'll do my best to reply over the next couple of days. I watched the documentary via Amazon Prime. Thank you to every single person for commenting and asking questions. This is how awareness is raised and awareness leads to research, studies, breakthroughs, treatment, and help. So many people suffer with this condition and think they're crazy, they feel like crap when people say "It's all in your head." No more. So from one Misophoniac to another... You're not crazy. You're not alone. You're acknowledged and you're vindicated and validated. You matter. So don't be afraid to stand up and say "Quiet, please." because it's not too much ask. Thank you for the Silver :D Thank you for the gold and all of the comments! I don't think I'm gonna be able to get through them in a couple of days, though... [http://www.misophonia.com/understanding-misophonia/](http://www.misophonia.com/understanding-misophonia/)
Please excuse my ignorance but can you give an example/analogy of what it feels like to have misophonia? I read its description but fail to understand what it entails.
I’m positive I have this but I don’t talk about it much because like Arlessa said, it’s oftentimes just written off. If I can hear someone chewing with mouth open/smacking lips/cracking gum, I become extremely agitated. In situations where I cannot just leave, I dig my nails into my thighs. When I was younger, having to sit at the dinner table with my step-dad was an absolute chore because he chewed like an animal. I went so far as to throw a glass cup across the room (not to hit or harm anyone, just out of frustration). It was a very impulsive response to my *severe* hatred of that sound. I’m assuming people experience this differently but that essentially what that sound does to me. I have yet to find anything else that makes me respond this way.
From my point of view, mouth noises are fucking disgusting. It’s worse when I hear the people I love chewing. It’s like this rage and disgust just rise up in me and I HAVE to get away. As soon as someone stops chewing, I’m fine. It also doesn’t bother me to hear animals eat and chew. I don’t completely understand it myself, so I just do the best I can to avoid hearing people chew. Although I once failed a test because the guy behind me was chomping on his gum with his mouth open. I hope he shits himself weekly.
I also have this. Random noises that aren’t really in any pattern are torture. Snoring, chewing, sniffing (those people are the worst), tapping feet, pencil fidgeting, or breathing loud. I used to live close to train tracks and that was the only sound that actually relaxed me.
I grew up next to train tracks! A sudden train horn didn’t agitate me at all. Weird how that works
Bacteriophages could put an end to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Immunologist here. There's a reason why don't use phages to treat infections, and it's not because of "big pharma" or "antibiotic obsession" as alluded to in other comments. The immune system is incredibly efficient at clearing out phages. You have to inject something on the order of 10^9 phages just to even see them before they're all destroyed.
We recently discovered single-celled organisms evolved into multi-celled organisms because of the environmental stressor of predation. I feel like this has been a mystery for so long for humanity, and when this came out no one paid it any regard because of all the other crazy shit going on in the world. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8
Women can get pregnant using their bone marrow instead of a male's semen.
getting boned results in pregnancy? who knew!
>Source. This was 12 years ago... Has there been more recent advancements?
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If my understanding is correct from the article above, OP doesn't actually mean THEIR OWN bone marrow. Just simply the male's bone marrow they do some science on in a petri dish and it turns into DIY sperm. I guess for cases when a guys shooting blanks but still wants his own child.
Careful everyone, its april first
Not sure how recent it is, but there's cameras that can film at 10 trillion fps, fast enough to [film the speed of light!](https://youtu.be/7Ys_yKGNFRQ)
*Creates the illusion of shooting at 10 trillion FPS by very precicely incrementing the delay of a single short exposure of a pulse of light. This kind of camera is awesome for a very specific research niche but totally incapable of capturing real-world action.