We Still Don ’ t Fully Understand Time
In our everyday lives, time is a precious commodity. We can gain or lose it. We can save, spend or waste it. If our crimes are revealed, we risk having to do time.
To scientists, time is something we can measure. Clocks have, over the centuries, been the high tech artifacts of their era—the water clock, the pendulum clock, Harrison’s chronometer, and so forth up to the incredible precision of atomic clocks—marvels of modern technology, albeit without the evident aesthetic quality of more traditional timepieces. (Though engineering friends tell me that, viewed through a microscope, there’s beauty ...
Source: TIME: Science - April 24, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Martin Rees Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment by Carl T. Bogus [Book review] - McKevitt AC.
Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment. By Carl T. Bogus. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. $29.95 cloth.)
Near the end of Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment, Carl Bogus directly address... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
'There's no good evidence for the routine use of puberty blockers': Top experts call for sea change to treating transgender kids as studies suggest damage is permanent
'Studies have shown that there is no good evidence for the routine use of puberty blockers,' Oxford University endocrinologist Ashley Grossman said ahead of the release of long-awaited UK review. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Efforts to support Palestinian scientists struggle with the realities of war
Mou’yed Issa Talab Ismail was thrilled when, last month, he received an offer to begin a doctoral program in medical physics at the University of Sherbrooke. “Canada is considered one of the best countries in the world in my field of scientific research,” he says. “This will open the way for me to complete my studies.”
One of several recently launched efforts to support scientists and technical students in war-torn Gaza helped match Ismail with the Canadian program. But throwing a lifeline to Palestinian scholars is proving difficult, and it’s unclear when Ismail will make it to Canada. He is currently sh...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Thousands to be offered blood tests for dementia in UK trial
More than 50 clinics will offer tests to about 5,000 people who are worried about their memory in five-year trialThousands of people across the UK who are worried about their memory will receive blood tests for dementia in two trials that doctors hope will help to revolutionise the low diagnosis rate.Teams from the University of Oxford and University College London will lead the trials to research the use of cheap and simple tests to detect proteins for people with early stages of dementia or problems with cognition, with the hope of speeding up diagnosis and reaching more people.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Mabel Banfield-Nwachi Tags: Dementia Alzheimer's Medical research Society Science Mental health Neuroscience UK news Source Type: news
John Midgley obituary
My colleague and friend John Midgley, who has died aged 88, was a scientist, biochemist and researcher best known for the invention and development of thyroid hormone blood tests in the 1980s.A pioneer in medical biochemistry, his work in the field of thyroid hormone detection hugely improved patient care. John was also a passionate advocate for patients – as a medical adviser to the charity Thyroid UK, commentator and writer.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Rudolf Hoermann Tags: Thyroid disorders Science Medical research Biochemistry and molecular biology Yorkshire Healthcare industry University of Leeds University of Oxford Newcastle University Source Type: news
How the threat of genocide sparked a multi-ethnic revolution in Syria
Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria, by Amy Austin Holmes, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $99 The outlook for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, a region also known as Rojava, does not look good. Over the last couple of years,…#semiautonomousregion #northeastsyria #amyaustinholmes #eastsyria #rojava #turkish #rashidabukhawla #kurdish #syria #arab (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study identifies drinking, diabetes, smog as major dementia risk factors
Alcohol intake, smog and diabetes are the three greatest risk factors for developing dementia that people can modify, a study conducted by Oxford University researchers recently concluded. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
London Boat Race Marred by High Levels of E. Coli in Thames
Rowers in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race this weekend have been warned of dangerously high levels of E. coli in the River Thames, the latest sign of England ’s polluted waterways. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephen Castle Tags: Water Pollution Sewers and Sewage E Coli (Bacteria) Rowing Boats and Boating Oxford University Thames Water Cambridge University Great Britain England London (England) Source Type: news
Want to avoid dementia? Scientists name THREE most effective things you can do to protect 'weak spot' in brain from succumbing to memory-robbing disorder (but you might not like one of their tips!)
Researchers at the University of Oxford found specific parts of the brain are most vulnerable to alcohol, diabetes and traffic-related air pollution. These can increase the risk of dementia. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MRI reveals effects of risk factors on vulnerable brain regions
MRI shows the effects particular risk factors such as diabetes, air pollution, and frequency of alcohol use have on "higher-order" brain regions located in the cerebral cortex, researchers have found.
A team led by Jordi Manuello, PhD, of the University of Oxford in the U.K. reported that these risk factors further increase an individual's vulnerability to conditions such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. The group's findings were published March 27 in Nature Communications.
"[Our] results provide a comprehensive picture of the role played by genetic and modifiable risk factors on these fragile parts of the brain...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 27, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news
Daughter of refugees founded a biotech to combat diseases that have afflicted her family
From the San Francisco Business Times.
For Hanadie Yousef, the inspiration for pushing Juvena Therapeutics ’ aging-related drug toward its first clinical trial is never far away.
Her father, Anwar Yousef, grew up in a United Nations-administered refugee camp in Jordan. He taught himself English and escaped war and poverty by earning one of two scholarships in Jordan awarded by the British Council, a nondepartmental public body sponsored by the government, to Oxford University.
After finishing… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Over 4,400 preserved human brains have been discovered across the world, study finds
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Oxford University scientist Alexandra Morton-Hayward about how some brains are preserved thousands of years after a person's death. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott Simon Source Type: news
Scientists try to unravel the case of 1,300 mysteriously preserved human brains
An undertaker-turned-scientist at Oxford University is trying to figure out why some human brains remain remarkably well-preserved after death, sometimes for thousands of years, even when all other soft tissue has long decayed. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/As It Happens Source Type: news
Preserved human brains from 12,000 years ago among thousands in new archive
Researchers have created an unprecedented archive of thousands of human brains preserved in the archaeological record, some of which date back several millennia. A team led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a forensic anthropologist and doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford's Department of…#unitedkingdom #antarctica #mortonhayward #egyptian #arctic #stoneage #sweden #upper #egypt #danish (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
