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How high-speed internet is bringing people ‘out of the dark ages’ to reshape work and life in rural America

By Guest PostJanuary 14, 2020Technologyairband initiative, haptic smart watch, high speed internet, Microsoft, network business systems, rural america, wireless internet

As Beth Carlson prepared to take her son to a hospital eight hours away for surgery on a benign brain tumor last winter, one major worry aside from the procedure weighed on her mind.

How would the family stay in touch with Xander, 13, while he was away for weeks of treatment afterward? They’d tried video chats during a previous hospital stay, but the internet connection on the farm where they live was too slow. They could talk by phone, but it wasn’t the same as being able to see her boy’s face and look for the signs a mother knows to tell if he was OK. Xander’s two sisters, one older and one younger, were also worried about him. (more…)

Study shows how serotonin and a popular anti-depressant affect the gut’s microbiota

By Guest PostJanuary 12, 2020Healthanti-depressant, elaine hsiao, gut microbiota, neurotransmitter, serotonin, thomas fung, turicibacter sanguinis

A new study in mice led by UCLA biologists strongly suggests that serotonin and drugs that target serotonin, such as anti-depressants, can have a major effect on the gut’s microbiota — the 100 trillion or so bacteria and other microbes that live in the human body’s intestines. (more…)

Das lange Gedächtnis der Höhlen

By Guest PostJanuary 9, 2020Sciencedatierung der sedimentschichten, gedaechtnis der hoehlen, gina moseley, hoehlenerkundung, thorium uran methode

Gina Moseley vom Institut für Geologie analysiert Sedimentablagerung in Höhlen auf der ganzen Welt. Das erlaubt Aussagen über die klimatischen Veränderungen der vergangenen 650.000 Jahre. Seit heuer ist die Klimatologin Mitglied der Jungen Akademie der ÖAW. (more…)

Control Theory: Mother Nature is an Engineer

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2020Scienceandrew capaldi, biochemical circuits, control theory, feedforward control, xiangxia luo

Engineering principles developed only 150 years ago were found to have evolved first in biological circuitry that controls cell growth, according to new UA research.

In the last 150 years, engineers have developed and mastered ways to stabilize dynamic systems, without lag or overshoot, using what’s known as control theory. Now, a team of University of Arizona researchers has shown that cells and organisms evolved complex biochemical circuits that follow the principles of control theory, millions of years before the first engineer put pencil to paper. (more…)

Indoeuropäische Sprachen stammen aus der Steppe

By Guest PostJanuary 4, 2020Sciencedavid reich, eisenzeit, indoeuropaeische sprachen, maria teschler nicola, region vom mesolithikum, ron pinhasi, steppe hypothese

Bevölkerungsgeschichte Süd- und Zentralasiens der letzten Jahrtausende in neuem Licht

Die größte jemals durchgeführte Studie alter menschlicher DNA wirft ein neues Licht auf die Herkunft von zentral- und südasiatischen Bevölkerungen. Im Fokus der Studie, an der Ron Pinhasi vom Department für Evolutionäre Anthropologie der Universität Wien als Haupt-Senior-Autor beteiligt waren, steht der Ursprung der Landwirtschaft und der indogermanischen Sprachen. Die Ergebnisse erscheinen aktuell in der Zeitschrift “Science”.

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Measuring motion sickness in driverless cars

By Guest PostJanuary 1, 2020Health, Technologyautonomous vehicle, carsickness, driverless cars, mcity, monica jones, motion sickness, self driving technology, transportation tesearch

Carsickness incidence could increase if we all become passengers, but new research aims to help address that

ANN ARBOR — What good is a driverless car if riding in it makes you nauseous? (more…)

Potenzielle Folgen von Dürre frühzeitig erkennen

By Guest PostDecember 31, 2019Environmentbinnenschifffahrt, folgen von duerre, fruehwarnsystem, projekt anywhere, veit blauhut

Forschende entwickeln Prognosesystem und fordern politische Agenda zu diesem Thema

Die extremen Dürren der zurückliegenden Jahre in weiten Gebieten Europas haben gezeigt, dass saisonale Prognosen zu Trockenphasen erforderlich sind. Denn nur dann können rechtzeitig Maßnahmen ergriffen werden, um die negativen Folgen für Ökosysteme, Binnenschifffahrt, Landwirtschaft und Stromerzeugung zu verringern. (more…)

What’s preventing the next world war? Random luck

By Guest PostDecember 29, 2019Politics, Weaponsbear braumoeller, international conflict, power law distribution, preventing world war, small war

International conflict isn’t declining, new analysis finds

Contrary to popular belief, war is not declining, according to a new analysis of the last 200 years of international conflict. (more…)

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