| A New Gamma Ray Observatory In Northern Chile |
The SWGO Collaboration (SWGO stands for Southern Wide-Field Gamma Observatory) met this week in Heidelberg, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) to discuss progress in the many activities that its members are carrying forward to prepare for the finalization of the design of the observatory and the following construction phase.
As a member of the collaboration I could learn of many new developments in detail, but I cannot discuss them here as they are work in progress by my colleagues. What I can do here, however, is to describe the observatory as we would like to build it, and a few other things that have been decided and are now public.
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| Laughter Exercise Could Be Treatment For Dry Eye Disease |
Dry eye disease is a chronic condition estimated to affect around 360 million people. Common symptoms include uncomfortable, red, scratchy or irritated eyes.
Anecdotal claims are that laughter therapy alleviates depression, anxiety, stress, and chronic pain, while strengthening immune function but if you have clinical depression, please don't limit yourself to people saying you need to smile more and get scientific help. Laughter therapy for dry eye disease is a much less risky proposition.
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| Normal Sleep Duration 50% Less Common After A Stroke |
Getting enough sleep is correlated to brain and heart health and after a stroke that is even more important.
A new survey finds that is when people who need it are least likely to get it.
A cohort of 39,559 people were asked every two years how much sleep they usually get at night on weekdays or workdays. Sleep duration was divided into three categories: short, less than six hours; normal, six to eight hours; and long, eight or more hours of sleep. The group included 1,572 people who had a stroke.
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| Mpox Vaccine Effective In Preventing Infection |
A health data simulation has concluded that a single dose of the Modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) was 58% effective in protecting again mpox infection, a disease caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which is most likely in men who have sex with men and which causesa rash, along with other symptoms.
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| USDA Implicated In Tribal Food Shortages |
The Biden-Harris administration is under fire from Native-American and agriculture groups for repeating a food shortage fiasco that also occurred during the Obama-Biden administration.
The United States Department of Agriculture met with tribal leaders earlier this year and said they were switching to a single warehouse and sole contractor. Native leaders, concerned about a repeat of 2014, protested but USDA went ahead and food shortages, canceled food deliveries, and deliveries of expired products occurred starting in April.
Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for the Federal Nutrition Program
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| C1QL1 - Multiple Sclerosis Research Tackles How The Brain Replaces Lost Myelin |
The neurons in our brains are protected by an insulating layer called myelin. In diseases like multiple sclerosis, this protective layer is damaged and lost, leading to death of neurons and gradual disability.
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| Study: Fish With A Mirror Check Their Body Size Before Fights With Bigger Opponents |
Researchers in Scientific Reports are claiming the first non-human instance of an animal possessing some mental states (e.g., mental body image, standards, intentions, goals), which are elements of private self-awareness.
They show that Labroides dimidiatus (bluestreak cleaner wrasse) checked their body size in a mirror before choosing whether to attack fish that were slightly larger or smaller than themselves.
The authors say the cleaner wrasse's behavior of going to look in the mirror installed in a tank when necessary indicated the possibility that the fish were using the mirror to check their own body size against that of other fish and predict the outcome of fights.
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| Choosing Between Inquiry-Based Learning And Direct Learning |
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| Genetic Engineering Of Barley 100 Years Ago Made Beer And Whiskey Great |
In 1929, an experiment with 28 barley varieties showed why barley, one of the world's most important cereal crops for at least 12,000 years, has been so adaptable, growing everywhere from Norway to the mountains of South America, and why that means the future remains bright for whiskey and beer.
In most cases, random changes to DNA allowed it to survive in each new location so scientists nearly 100 years ago set out to discover the genes that changed to predict which varieties will thrive in which places. Modern work is highlighting for media its implications in a world of future climate change but nothing happening now compares to the rain and drought booms and busts of the past.
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| FDA Gives Approval For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pediatric Treatment |
Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. has received rare pediatric disease designation for NS-050/NCNP-03, being developed for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne). The FDA's rare pediatric disease designation is for treatments of serious or life-threatening diseases in children where there are fewer than 200,000 patients in the United States.
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| Fit Fat: Exercise Helps Even If You Aren't Thin |
Influences buoyed by epidemiological claims about gimmick diets can make fitness intimidating but ignore them. Even if you don't lose weight, if you exercise your belly fat is still going to be healthier than someone who does nothing.
It just takes some consistency.
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| The Whiteness Of Boomer Environmentalism May Be Why Lakes In Minority Communities Get Little Attention |
Prior to the takeover of environmentalism by Earth Day's overt communist malcontents (1) it was devoted to clean water and neighborhoods in cities, where the poorest lived.
To get attention and money from other wealthy elites, it pivoted to rural rivers and streams and minorities were marginalized in the rush to control government that would control conservation and "endangered" species(2) and clean water for people of colors stopped being important.
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