This is the first comprehensive review of gaps in risk assessments for adjuvants in pesticide formulations which are not currently subject to safety assessments. Ignoring the potential dangers of other ingredients in commonly used commercial pesticides leads to inaccuracies in the safety profile of the pesticide solution, as well as […]
Daily Archives: March 8, 2018
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We don’t usually expect evolution to be predictable. But Hawaiian stick spiders of the Ariamnes genus have repeatedly evolved the same distinctive forms, known as ecomorphs, on different islands, researchers report. Ecomorphs — which look similar and live in similar habitats, but aren’t as closely related as they appear — […]
Scientists have long known that sleep is important to the formation and retention of new memories. Memory consolidation is associated with sudden bursts of oscillatory brain activity, called sleep spindles, which can be visualized and measured on an electroencephalogram (EEG). Now researchers have found that sleep spindles also play a […]
The bus driver’s got a secret. Not many of the schoolkids know it, as the bus winds its way along the coast at Billinudgel, but their driver is a former world surfing champion. Pauline Menczer, the woman who had the world at her feet back in 1993, loves her job. […]
The first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was thought to have died in the Pacific Ocean after her Lockheed Electra 10E plane crashed in 1937 as she made her second attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Skeletal remains were found on a remote island, called Nikumaroro Island, […]
If Russia’s spy agencies were involved, it would go against some of the basic rules of espionage More Sergei Skripal, the former Russian spy now fighting for his life in a British hospital, had every reason to feel secure in his retirement in the south of England. Unlike some of […]
Physicist Kip Thorne gave his theory on how people could one day travel through time but warned that wormholes, a theoretical passage through space and time, self-destruct at the exact moment in which time travel is made possible. Mr Thorne, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in […]
The bones were first discovered in the 1940s but now have new relevance. More The truth behind Amelia Earhart’s mysterious disappearance may have been uncovered at last. Decades after the renowned pilot and first woman to ever fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean vanished, researchers believe they have her final […]