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23 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
Aspartame, saccharin, stevia, and sucralose make concerning changes to your microbiome, according to new research. We all love sugar, but our excessive consumption of it is killing us. Global obesity has almost tripled since 1975, according t...
20 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
Because days are inexplicably becoming longer, we might need the unprecedented negative leap second, but it could break the internet. Keeping our calendars in sync with the Earth has always been problematic. Any system we create, inevitably needs...
19 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
(Photo by Robin Canfield on Unsplash) Some insects can “smell” cancerous cells, possibly leading to new devices for early detection. Nothing beats a natural nose. Since the early 1980s, researchers have been trying to develop electronic noses...
15 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
We just can’t figure out dark matter. It solves a lot of cosmological mysteries, yet it continues to elude some of our best predictions. (Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash) Dark matter gets its name because it doesn’t interact with electromag...
7 May 2022 7 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
As a response to a recent wave of book banning, Chaz Stevens wants to ban the Bible. He might have a point. Banning books in the US isn't new. As far back 1637, well before US independence, the Puritans banned the book New English Canaan. Written by...
2 Mar 2022 5 minute read 2 comments The Happy Neuron
A majority of pro-life Americans are willing to help friends and family get an abortion, while opposing it for others. A new study published in the journal Science Advances demonstrates glaring hypocrisy among American conservatives. On one hand, the...
16 Feb 2022 12 minute read 2 comments The Happy Neuron
Modern science is slowly rediscovering how psychedelic substances can treat an array of mental illnesses. About 1000 years ago, a shaman was buried in a southern-Bolivian cave with a ritualistic pouch full of psychoactive substances. Made of 3 fox sn...
16 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
German scientists can now store the Sun’s energy in a jar and release it when needed as clean-burning hydrogen gas. Solar energy has a big problem: we can’t control the Sun. It obviously doesn’t shine at night and the amount of its energy reaching th...
3 Feb 2022 5 minute read 1 comment The Happy Neuron
Solar is growing rapidly, but producers are running out of aluminum, a not so carbon-friendly material. The solar industry has 2 big problems. First, aluminum is a key material in creating solar panels and the infrastructure necessary to get them up...
23 Nov 2021 6 minute read 0 comments The Happy Neuron
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce, recently published a white paper, in which they proposed blockchain as a solution to data breaches. The authors focus on the pros and cons of top-down v...
