Kettinki – Sivu 56

2024-02-12 @ 19.12.24 ∈ In English

New study on decomposing microbes could help transform forensic science

For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant implications for the future of forensic science, including the potential to provide crime scene investigators with a more precise way to determine a body’s time of death.

2024-02-12 @ 16.00.14 ∈ In English

(I don’t know if this proves what it’s set out to prove, but I just found the exercise of pondering my answers interesting.)

No Vehicles In The Park

This is a game about language and rules. It consists of 27 questions, but after the first seven, you can skip to the end.

2024-02-09 @ 17.24.23 ∈ In English

Getting vaccines in different arms improves effectiveness, study finds

Researchers have found that getting a vaccine booster shot in a different arm from the one you got the first in may improve the body’s immune response up to four-fold. While they exclusively studied responses to the COVID-19 vaccine, they suspect this effect may be seen with other multidose vaccines.

2024-02-08 @ 19.14.12 ∈ In English

People with depression have higher body temperature

[The research] does not definitively answer whether depression causes body temperature to rise or if the higher temperature is a contributing factor to depression.

2024-02-06 @ 11.20.00 ∈ Suomeksi

Heikki Hiilamon kolumni: Ryhdyin tutkijaksi, koska hävetti väittää työkseen, että rikkaiden suosiminen auttaa köyhiä

Keskelle talouspolitiikan keskustelua on ponnahtanut vanha tuttu ”vieteriukko”. Se väittää, että rikkaiden suosiminen on tieteellinen välttämättömyys ja hyödyttää köyhiä.

2024-02-05 @ 20.10.31 ∈ In English

Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever

[Tropical] bed bugs have turned up in the United States, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Finland, China, Japan, France, Central Europe, Spain — “even in Russia, which would have once been unthinkable,” says [Chow-Yang] Lee, of the University of California, Riverside.

2024-01-31 @ 16.09.09 ∈ In English

Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it’s confusion, not fatal attraction

Rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night may actually scramble flying insects' innate navigational systems, causing them to flutter in confusion around porch lamps, street lights and other artificial beacons.

2024-01-30 @ 14.39.02 ∈ In English

Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk

Conducting a police-style investigation that faults a deceased pilot does nothing to affect the probability of future accidents. To follow the spirit of Annex 13, investigators must ask how others could be prevented from making the same mistakes in the future.

2024-01-30 @ 14.28.19 ∈ In English

First-ever sighting of a live newborn great white may help solve longstanding mystery in shark science

"Where white sharks give birth is one of the holy grails of shark science. No one has ever been able to pinpoint where they are born, nor has anyone seen a newborn baby shark alive," Gauna said. "There have been dead white sharks found inside deceased pregnant mothers. But nothing like this."

2024-01-29 @ 16.26.36 ∈ In English

Fugitive bomber revealed his true identity to hospital staff | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Hospital staff were stunned when an elderly patient suddenly said, “I am Satoshi Kirishima.” […] Kirishima has been on the police most wanted list for a series of bombings in the 1970s that included one in which eight people were killed and 380 injured.