Matt Willemsen @Nonog@fedibird.com

Four-Week Experiment Reveals an Ingeniously Simple Way to Boost Your Sleep Quality
So much of our health is tied to banking good quality sleep every night, and a new four-week experiment has revealed a simple way anyone can improve the quality of their slumber: keeping the bedroom well-ventilated.
https://www.sciencealert.com/experiment-reveals-a-simple-way-to-boost-your-sleep-quality #sleep #quality #ventilation #health

Protective vaccination rates falling out of reach in US; exemptions hit record
Vaccination exemptions among kindergartners rose from 2.6% to a record high of 3%.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/protective-vaccination-rates-falling-out-of-reach-in-us-exemptions-hit-record/ #Protective #vaccination #exemptions #children #health

Boosting Brain Connectivity: Cannabis May Enhance Empathy and Emotional Perception
A study in the Journal of Neuroscience Research suggests that regular cannabis users may have an improved ability to understand others’ emotions, supported by stronger connectivity in the anterior cingulate, a brain region associated with empathy.
https://scitechdaily.com/boosting-brain-connectivity-cannabis-may-enhance-empathy-and-emotional-perception/ #Connectivity #Cannabis #Enhance #Empathy #Emotional #Perception #AnteriorCingulate

Last Laughs
Can you die from laughter?
Is there any truth to the phrase "I'm dying of laughter"?
https://www.livescience.com/health/can-you-die-from-laughter #laughter #risk #syncope #vagusnerve #hypertension

Breathtaking Discovery: Unearthing Microfossils That Redefine Life’s Evolution
Scientists have discovered ancient microfossils in Western Australia, offering new insights into the rise of complex life during the Great Oxidation Event. These findings, which show similarities to algae, could redefine our understanding of life’s evolution and the potential for complex life forms in the universe.
https://scitechdaily.com/breathtaking-discovery-unearthing-microfossils-that-redefine-lifes-evolution/ #Microfossils #Evolution #GreatOxidationEvent #australia #life

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fossil Fuels
Earth Was More Attractive to Aliens Back When Dinosaurs Roamed
They found that two key biomarker pairs would have been stronger some 100 to 300 million years ago: oxygen and methane, and ozone and methane. That's primarily down to a proliferation of greenery delivering significantly higher levels of oxygen into the atmosphere back then.
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-was-more-attractive-to-aliens-back-when-dinosaurs-roamed #oxygen #methane, #ozone #dinosaurs #aliens #PyewPyew

Android spyware delivered through infected news site targets Urdu speakers in Kashmir
Researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET said they discovered a brand of Android spyware called Kamran that is allegedly being distributed through a so-called watering hole attack involving a compromised news website called Hunza News.
https://therecord.media/android-spyware-infected-news-site-targets-urdu-speakers-kashmir #spyware #urdu #news #Kamran #HunzaNews #kashmir

Goddamit!
I just found one on my leg.

A whole lot of 'splainin' to do
If We Could Find Them, Primordial Black Holes Would Explain a Lot About the Universe
There are three known types of black holes in the Universe: supermassive black holes, in the centers of galaxies, stellar-mass black holes: remnants of massive stars, and intermediate-mass black holes, tfound in dense clusters of stars. But there is a fourth, hypothetical type of black hole known as primordial black holes (PBHs). If they exist, they could solve a few cosmological mysteries.
https://www.universetoday.com/164181/if-we-could-find-them-primordial-black-holes-would-explain-a-lot-about-the-universe/ #BlackHoles #universe

Time now to say Fuck Netanyahu.
Enough is enough, and this is too much.
The bastard will never be satisfied.
The aim now is to kill Palestinians.

FDA approves world's 1st chikungunya vaccine
There's now an FDA-approved vaccine for chikungunya, a mosquito-spread virus that can cause fever, severe joint pain, and rarely, death.
https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/fda-approves-worlds-1st-chikungunya-vaccine #worlds #first #chikungunya #vaccine #FDA #approved #mosquitoes #mozzies #kimakonde #Ixchiq

Meta-Analysis of Postcancer Use of Immunosuppressive Therapies Shows No Increase in Cancer Recurrence Risk
Patients with immune-mediated diseases and a history of malignancy had similar rates of cancer recurrence whether or not they were receiving immunosuppressive treatments
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/998366 #MetaAnalysis #Postcancer #Immunosuppressive #Therapies

Jury Still Out on Whether Green Tea Lowers Colon Cancer Risk
Can green tea lower your risk of colorectal cancer? It depends on who — and what research — you believe.
Evidence that links green tea and a lower risk of colorectal cancer goes both ways.
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/998341 #GreenTea #ColonCancer #risk #prevention #RandomTrials #benefit

One Huge Contradiction Is Undoing Our Best Climate Efforts
The world is still using more energy each year, our consumption ticking ever upward, swallowing any gains made by renewable energy. Emissions are still rising—more slowly than they used to but, nonetheless, rising.
The math isn’t adding up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/11/climate-change-policies-contradictions/675967/ #environment #climate #mitigation #consumption #emissions #FossilFuels

Microsimulation Model Identifies 4-Year Window for Pancreatic Cancer Screening
It takes an average of 4 years for a pancreatic lesion to progress from high-grade dysplasia (HGD) to cancer, suggesting a window of opportunity for screening, based on a microsimulation model.
Screening should instead focus on identifying high-grade dysplastic lesions, they suggested.
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/998337 #Microsimulation #Model #Window #Pancreatic #Cancer #Screening #dysplastic #lesions #PanINs

Peering Into the Future: Eye Scans Unveil Parkinson’s Disease Markers 7 Years Early
Researchers have identified early indicators of Parkinson’s disease in eye scans, years before symptoms occur. This could lead to pre-screening tools and preventive measures against neurodegenerative diseases through the emerging field of oculomics.
https://scitechdaily.com/peering-into-the-future-eye-scans-unveil-parkinsons-disease-markers-7-years-early/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Eyes #Neuroscience #Retina #neurodegenerative #disease #oculomics

Iceberg Mapping at Lightning Speed: AI Is 10,000x Faster Than Humans
In a groundbreaking development, researchers from the University of Leeds have unveiled a neural network that can swiftly and accurately chart the expanse of large Antarctic icebergs in satellite images, accomplishing the task in a mere 0.01 seconds. This novel approach is in stark contrast to the laborious and time-consuming manual efforts needed previously.
https://scitechdaily.com/iceberg-mapping-at-lightning-speed-ai-is-10000-times-faster-than-humans/ #iceberg #mapping #AI #ESA #safety #environment