No safe level of alcohol | Emmanuela Gakidou

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 24, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study, published in the international medical journal The L ...

Astronomers detect synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching of the pulsar PSR B0823+26 | Tomasz Nowakowski

GMRT observation at 325 MHz of PSR B0823+26 on 2017 April 20, showing as a typical example PSR B0823+26 in B mode during 2500 single-pulse sequences, or ∼ 22 minutes of the total duration of ∼ 7.5 ho ...

Beauty Is Simpler, And Less Special, Than We Realize | Aenne Brielmann

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 20, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology resear ...

Core thinking error underlies belief in creationism, conspiracy theories: study | Sebastian Dieguez

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 20, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- It's not uncommon to hear someone espouse the idea that "everything happens for a reason" or that something that happened was "meant to be." ...

Study finds flaw in emergent gravity | Lisa Zyga

Illustration of a three-dimensional hypersurface. Credit: Wang and Braunstein. Published in Nature Communications Aug. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new paper undermines a key assumption of the theory of ...

Evaluating creativity in computational co-creative systems | Ingrid Fadelli

Three main trends in creative systems: creativity support tools, fully autonomous systems and co-creative systems. Credit: Karimi et al. Aug. 8, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Computer programs assist humans i ...

The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness | John Michael Greer

Aug. 8, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the ...

Terrifying insights into climate change could build legislative momentum for emissions cuts | Christine Clark

Credit: University of California - San Diego Aug. 7, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Scientists at the University of California San Diego see an opportunity to shift the politics around climate change. New resear ...

Potential link between brain trauma and degenerative brain disease revealed | Elisa Zanier

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aug. 1, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A landmark study published in the journal Brain from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research of Milan and the University of Gl ...

NASA prepares to launch Parker Solar Probe, a mission to touch the Sun | Sarah Frazier

Parker Solar Probe will explore the corona, a region of the Sun only seen from Earth when the Moon blocks out the Sun's bright face during total solar eclipses. The corona holds the answers to many o ...

Did a rogue star change the makeup of our solar system? | Bob Yirka

Effect of a prograde, parabolic fly-by of a star with a) M=0.5 M, b) M2= 1, Mand c) M2= 5 M that is inclined by 60 degrees and has an angle of periastron equal zero. The perihelion distance is alwa ...