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Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies
Who will achieve high marks in school, flourish in their career or become an Olympian? Current theories of achievement provide answers that are intuitively appealing but scientifically flawed. Consequently, most of what people believe about how to achieve success is likely to be incorrect. For more than a century, scientists have proposed multiple explanations for…
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Lazy sedimentation
While the role of statoliths and the involvement of asymmetrical distribution of auxin in the gravitropic adjustments have been known for decades, the precise molecular mechanism connecting statolith position with downstream events has not been entirely elucidated. Mechanosensing was suspected for a long time, but a recent study in Cell by Haodong Chen and colleagues,…
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Protective effect of uridine on atrial fibrillation: a Mendelian randomisation study
Abstract Uridine, a pyrimidine nucleoside, is crucial in the synthesis of metabolites. According to observational studies, a higher plasma uridine level is associated with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the casual relationship between uridine and AF is still unknown. In this study, we used the Mendelian randomisation (MR) approach to explore causality.…
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Carbon footprint and embodied nutrition evaluation of 388 recipes
Abstract Food consumption, which delivers fundamental energy and essential nutrients to human beings, is crucial for achieving a series of sustainable goals. Alongside rising population growth and living standards, there has been a significant increase in food cultivation demands, supply chain complexities, and waste management. Therefore, to protect human health and the environment, promoting sustainable…
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Close Out 2023 With The Best American Science And Nature Writing
Live Event SciFri Book Club On December 11, join the editors and writers of this year’s Best American Science and Nature Writing to reflect on their favorites from last year. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023: Livestream and Q&A When: Monday, December 11 at 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT Where: Science Friday’s YouTube livestream…
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The Storied Bolinas Marine Laboratory Is Reborn
If you drive up Highway One some 15 curvy miles north of the Golden Gate, through the coastal village of Stinson Beach, the view to the west opens up dramatically onto a wide-open expanse of shallow water that is one of the richest marine estuaries on the West Coast, and one of the best places…
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College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
One of the things that you’ll hear about UWA quite often is, “There’s something about this place.” Come visit us at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM), and you’ll get a sense of what that means. NSM contains the Departments of Biological and Environmental Sciences, the Department of Physical Sciences, and the Department…
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Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host
Enlarge / Host James Burke returns for a reboot of his classic science series Connections on Curiosity Stream. Curiosity Stream Some 15 years ago, a friend recommended I check out a vintage BBC science documentary series called Connections: “I just think it will resonate with how your mind works.” He was right. I was immediately…
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Designing cities for 21st-century weather
To explore this idea, University of Delaware researcher Jing Gao, assistant professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment and a resident faculty member in the Data Science Institute, and colleague Melissa Bukovsky, associate professor in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, investigated how changes in urban…
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NASA’s Juno Finds Jupiter’s Winds Penetrate in Cylindrical Layers
Gravity data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates Jupiter’s atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The violent nature of Jupiter’s roiling atmosphere has long been a source of fascination for astronomers and planetary scientists,…