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How atomic bomb survivors have transformed our understanding of radiation’s impacts | Science | AAAS
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How atomic bomb survivors have transformed our understanding of radiation’s impacts | Science | AAAS
September 20, 2020Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
August 9, 2020Illuminating article by @kprather88
https://science.ScienceMag.org/content/368/6498/1422… Has a worrisome conclusion: #SARSCoV2 can be spread as an aerosol by asymptomatic individuals. The virus behaves a bit like 2nd-hand smoke. (Discussed in @ScienceMagazine podcast by @boron110.)
Perhaps being in public w/o a mask will eventually be treated like public smokers.
Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance | Science
June 27, 2020https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/1135
Interesting paper. Wonder whether this technology could readily track people and thus has #privacy implications…
Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance
Jason Qian1,2,3,*, Zhi-xiang Lu1,2,*, Christopher P. Mancuso4,*, Han-Ying Jhuang1,*, Rocío del Carmen Barajas-Ornelas5,*, Sarah A. Boswell1,2,*, Fernando H. Ramírez-Guadiana5, Victoria Jones1,6,†, Akhila Sonti4, Kole Sedlack4,‡, Lior Artzi5, Giyoung Jung7, Mohammad Arammash1, Mary E. Pettit1, Michael Melfi1, Lorena Lyon1, Siân V. Owen6, Michael Baym2,6, Ahmad S. Khalil4,8, Pamela A. Silver1,8, David Z. Rudner5, Michael Springer1,2,§
Science 05 Jun 2020:
Vol. 368, Issue 6495, pp. 1135-1140
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba5584
A fridge made from a rubber band? Twisted elastic fibers could cool your food | Science | AAAS
May 30, 2020twist to heat, untwist to cool
A radiative cooling structural material | Science
April 19, 2020QT:{{”
A stronger, cooler wood
One good way to reduce the amount of cooling a building needs is to make sure it reflects away infrared radiation. Passive radiative cooling materials are engineered to do this extremely well. Li et al. engineered a wood through delignification and re-pressing to create a mechanically strong material that also cools passively. They modeled the cooling savings of their wood for 16 different U.S. cities, which suggested savings between 20 and 50%. Cooling wood would be of particular value in hot and dry climates.
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interesting material for anti-insulation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.full
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.editor-summary
A fridge made from a rubber band? Twisted elastic fibers could cool your food | Science | AAAS
April 17, 2020Race to find COVID-19 treatments accelerates | Science
April 17, 2020Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations | Science
April 17, 2020https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/447.full
data access issues
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second | Science | AAAS
April 14, 2020QT:{{”
Some languages were clearly faster than others: no surprise there. But when the researchers took their final step—multiplying this rate by the bit rate to find out how much information moved per second—they were shocked by the consistency of their results. No matter how fast or slow, how simple or complex, each language gravitated toward an average rate of 39.15 bits per second, they report today in Science Advances. In comparison, the world’s first computer modem (which came out in 1959) had a transfer rate of 110 bits per second, and the average home internet connection today has a transfer rate of 100 megabits per second (or 100 million bits).
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