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The universe is too big for us to be alone, right? A NASA scientist weighs in  Boing Boing Source link

Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an expert on the U.S. street drug supply. He’s been recognized by the MacArthur Foundation with a “genius” grant for his work to understand the nation’s overdose crisis and to help reduce deaths. Pearson Ripley/Photo provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hide caption …

It’s a cute little town. I’d love to go back and spend more time, but no, it was just, “Let’s just go get something to eat,” because I gotta get back—I got a lot of things to do. Did you tell anyone in the pub that you won the Nobel Prize? I did not tell anyone, haha. I didn’t think …

Kevin Hall spent 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health and became known globally for his pioneering work on ultra-processed foods. In April he unexpectedly took early retirement, citing censorship under the Trump administration. Now he has co-authored a book with the journalist Julia Belluz that aims to bust myths and challenge wellness orthodoxy on everything from weight …

What a gut microbiome scientist wants you to eat every day  The Washington Post Source link

US scientist Dr Fred Ramsdell was on the last day of a three-week hike with his wife Laura O’Neill and their two dogs, deep in Montana’s grizzly bear country, when Ms O’Neill suddenly started screaming. But it was not a predator that had disturbed the quiet of their off-grid holiday: it was a flurry of text messages bearing the news …

In 2015, star U.S. distance runner Molly Huddle was rounding the final turn of the 10,000 meters at the world championships, almost certain to earn a bronze medal. Runners from Kenya and Ethiopia had just crossed the finish line, and Huddle noticeably eased her stride three steps before her own finish. Exhausted after a punishing race, she put her arms …

Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine. The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on …

A molecular biologist who grew up in Portland is one of the three researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. Mary E. Brunkow graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in downtown Portland in 1979 and now lives and works in Seattle. “We are …

In 1977, the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope received an unusually strong narrowband radio signal, leading to widespread excitement about the possibility of having encountered evidence of life beyond Earth. At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the highly unusual outburst in printed out records, annotating the major radio band fluctuation with the word “Wow!” in red pen, …