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  • Danish study finds drug reduces 'forever chemicals' in blood (Bile sequesters reduce by 63%)

    03/01/2024 2:27:20 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 19 replies
    Medical Xpress / AFP ^ | Feb. 29, 2024 | Morten Lindhardt et al
    A medication for high cholesterol can drastically cut "forever chemicals" (PFAS)—associated with an increased risk of cancer and banned in Europe—in the blood, researchers said. But the drug was not suitable for widespread and prolonged use because of its side effects. A clinical trial with cholestyramine led to a reduction 20 times greater than the normal result without intervention. "The effect of treatment was actually a decrease in the plasma of 63 percent," said Lindhardt. Researchers say the results are promising for treating people who have been exposed to high doses of the "forever chemicals", so called because they tend...
  • Fusion from filaments on Earth and in the cosmos...Part 2 of ‘The Big Bang never happened – so what did?’

    01/12/2024 7:02:52 PM PST · by Red Badger · 3 replies
    Asia Times ^ | DECEMBER 11, 2023 | By ERIC LERNER
    The Orion: A molecular cloud shows cosmic filamentary structures where stars are being born. Image: ESA / Herschel / Ph. André, D Polychroni, A. Roy, V Könyves, N Schneider for the Gould Belt survey Key Program ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the first part of this series, we saw that electromagnetic processes in plasmas – electrically conducting gases – could, over trillions of years, produce the giant filaments that we see today as the largest structures in the universe. This happened without a Big Bang, without dark energy or dark matter, based on processes that we observe here on Earth in the laboratory...
  • The Big Bang never happened – so what did?...Cosmic evolution without mythology [Part 1]

    01/12/2024 7:02:41 PM PST · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Asia Times ^ | DECEMBER 3, 2023 | By ERIC LERNER
    Whirlpool Galaxy, photographed by the Webb Space Telescope. Photo: NASA ESA Webb / A Adamo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introduction by Asia Times Science Editor Jonathan Tennenbaum In September Eric Lerner created a sensation with his Asia Times article, “Saying goodbye to the Big Bang,” arguing that the Big Bang theory is contradicted by an overwhelming mass of astronomical evidence accumulated over decades, including recent data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Eric Lerner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The data forced even a pair of hitherto staunch advocates of the Big Bang, the well-known astrophysicists Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, to admit that something must be...
  • Updated Intro to the Ganymede Hypothesis

    10/10/2023 5:59:09 AM PDT · by ganeemead · 10 replies
    This theory is a candidate for most major advance there has ever been in our understanding of human and solar system origins
  • Voyager Just Detected Something Massive At The Edge Of Our Solar System

    09/15/2022 12:43:19 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 64 replies
    The Voyager 2 spacecraft is one of the testaments to human ingenuity! More than four decades after launch, the spacecraft continues to function, even in the harshest imaginable condition of deep space! Despite being billions of miles away, the tenacious spacecraft continues to send back amazing and even terrifying discoveries to the mission controllers on earth! One of the discoveries was a huge wall of fire when Voyager 2 crossed the boundary of our solar system! What happens at this boundary, and how do the events at this boundary affect us on the earth? Join us as we dive into...
  • 'Dead sunspot' launches ball of plasma toward Earth

    04/12/2022 7:31:09 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 51 replies
    Live Science ^ | 04/12/2022 | Stephanie Pappas
    The explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987.... The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass ejection (CME) — explosive balls of solar material — both of which could spur more intense northern lights in Earth's upper atmosphere. The material in that CME is likely to impact Earth on April 14... The idea of a "dead" sunspot is more poetic than scientific, said Philip Judge, a solar physicist at the High Altitude Observatory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), but the convection of the sun...
  • New evidence shows blood or plasma donations can reduce the PFAS 'forever chemicals' in our bodies (Give your blood’s pollution away to make yourself healthier—30% better in a year)

    04/11/2022 2:55:50 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 34 replies
    Medical Xpress / The Conversation / JAMA Network Open ^ | Apr. 11, 2022 | Mark Patrick Taylor, etc. / Robin Gasiorowski et al
    You might have heard of PFAS, a synthetic chemical found in legacy firefighting foams, non-stick pans, carpets, clothes and stain- or water-resistant materials and paints. PFAS stands for "per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances." These molecules, made up of chains of carbon and fluorine atoms, are nicknamed "forever chemicals" because they don't degrade in our bodies. There is global concern about PFAS because they accumulate in our bodies over time. There was no way to reduce the amount of PFAS found in the body—until now. Our new randomized clinical trial, has found regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce blood PFAS...
  • EPFL and DeepMind use AI to control plasmas for nuclear fusion

    02/17/2022 7:53:11 AM PST · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    EFPL ^ | Florent Hiard, EPFL Staff
    Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind have jointly developed a new method for controlling plasma configurations for use in nuclear fusion research. EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) has decades of experience in plasma physics and plasma control methods. DeepMind is a scientific discovery company acquired by Google in 2014 that's committed to ‘solving intelligence to advance science and humanity. Together, they have developed a new magnetic control method for plasmas based on deep reinforcement learning, and applied it to a real-world plasma for the first time in the SPC’s tokamak research facility, TCV. Their study has just been...
  • Enigmatic High-Energy X-Rays Have Been Spied Coming From Jupiter

    02/11/2022 9:36:57 AM PST · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | February 11, 2022 | MICHELLE STARR
    https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2022-02/processed/jupiter-aurora_1024.jpg ======================================================================== Jupiter has finally been observed spitting out X-rays in high-energy wavelengths. Emanating from the giant planet's permanent auroras, and detected by NASA's space-based X-ray telescope NuSTAR, the emissions are the most energetic light seen coming from any planet in the Solar System (aside from Earth). The detection could shed light on the most powerful auroras in the Solar System, and solves a longstanding mystery: why the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft didn't detect any Jovian X-rays in its nearly three decades of operation between 1990 and 2009. Jupiter's auroras constitute an absolutely fascinating phenomenon. At both its poles, the...
  • WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for Covid-19

    12/06/2021 6:48:14 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 40 replies
    France24 ^ | December 6: 2021
    Paris (AFP) – Covid treatments using plasma taken from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients should not be given to people with mild or moderate illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Convalescent plasma showed some early promise when given intravenously to people sick with Covid-19. But in advice published in the British Medical Journal, the WHO now says that "current evidence shows that it does not improve survival nor reduce the need for mechanical ventilation, and it is costly and time-consuming to administer". It made a "strong recommendation" against the use of blood plasma in people who do not...
  • Red Cross Vaccine Alert — You Gotta Hear This

    09/01/2021 5:56:02 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 35 replies
    https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | Posted by Kane on September 1, 2021 4:59 am
    The vaccine wipes out the immune system. pic.twitter.com/O9hiUObWz3 — bristolblues (@BristolBlues32) August 29, 2021 Anyone who has received their Vaccine can not donate convalescent plasma to other Covid patients. The Vaccine wipes out natural Covid antibodies making the convalescent plasma ineffective for treatment. Once people are vaccinated, they cannot donate plasma. The vaccine causes spike antibodies, and for convalescent plasma, they need nucleocapsid antibodies. PHOENIX – While it’s promising to see people getting vaccinated for COVID-19, a new problem that blood banks face is less convalescent plasma donations. The reason why: after you get the vaccine, you cannot donate plasma....
  • Discovery of 10 Unknown Phases of Plasma Could Bring Us Closer to Fusion Power

    07/15/2021 12:02:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | July 15, 2021 | MICHELLE STARR
    Plasma test in the MAST tokamak, a plasma fusion chamber. =================================================================================== A new way of classifying magnetized plasma has led to the discovery of 10 previously unknown topological phases of plasma. Learning more about these phases, and specifically the transitions between them, could help plasma physicists chase down the white whale of energy - plasma fusion. That's because the transitions between them support edge modes, or waves at the intersection of the plasma surfaces. These exotic excitations could broaden the potential practical uses for magnetized plasma. "These findings could lead to possible applications of these exotic excitations in space and...
  • Why the Sun’s Atmosphere Is Hundreds of Times Hotter Than Its Surface – 80 Year-Old Theory Finally Confirmed

    05/27/2021 7:50:34 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | MAY 26, 2021 | By ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
    The visible surface of the Sun, or the photosphere, is around 6,000°C. But a few thousand kilometers above it – a small distance when we consider the size of the Sun – the solar atmosphere, also called the corona, is hundreds of times hotter, reaching a million degrees celsius or higher. This spike in temperature, despite the increased distance from the Sun’s main energy source, has been observed in most stars, and represents a fundamental puzzle that astrophysicists have mulled over for decades. In 1942, the Swedish scientist Hannes Alfvén proposed an explanation. He theorized that magnetized waves of plasma...
  • SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans

    05/26/2021 4:55:01 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    NATURE ^ | 05/26/2021 | Jackson S. Turner, Wooseob Kim, Elizaveta Kalaidina, Charles W. Goss, Adriana M. Rauseo, Aaron J. Sc
    ABSTRACT Long-lived bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) are a persistent and essential source of protective antibodies1–7. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) convalescent individuals have a significantly lower risk of reinfection8–10. Nonetheless, it has been reported that anti-SARS-CoV-2 serum antibodies experience rapid decay in the first few months after infection, raising concerns that long-lived BMPCs may not be generated and humoral immunity against this virus may be short-lived11–13. Here we demonstrate that in patients who experienced mild infections (n=77), serum anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) antibodies decline rapidly in the first 4 months after infection and then more gradually over the...
  • Fact Check- Is Red Cross accepting plasma from people vaccinated against COVID-19?

    05/23/2021 10:30:31 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    Reuters ^ | May 2021 | Reuters Fact Check
    The American Red Cross confirmed to Reuters that they are allowing people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine to donate plasma (the liquid component in blood), contrary to claims on social media that this plasma is not being accepted because the vaccine is “so untested”. The confusion may have arisen over the Red Cross’ policy on convalescent plasma, meaning plasma that has COVID-19 antibodies after recent infection and can be used as a treatment for COVID-19 infection. The American Red Cross’ current policy is to only accept convalescent plasma donations from people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have not...
  • Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma

    05/21/2021 7:15:00 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 21 MAY 2021 | MIKE MCRAE
    Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand kilometers (186 thousand miles) a second. This sets a firm limit on how quickly a whisper of information can travel anywhere in the Universe. While this law isn't likely to ever be broken, there are features of light which don't play by the same rules. Manipulating them won't hasten our ability to travel to the stars, but they could help us clear the way to a whole new class of laser technology. Physicists have been playing hard and fast with the speed limit of...
  • Why the Chinese Military Wants Magnetized Plasma Artillery

    03/13/2021 11:07:50 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 18 replies
    ttps://nationalinterest.org ^ | March 13, 2021 | by Michael Peck
    ere’s What You Need to Remember: China claims to be developing “magnetized plasma artillery.” The Chinese military recently published a notice inviting researchers to devise a weapon that sounds like a sort of electromagnetic rail gun—which uses magnetism instead of gunpowder to fire shells—that several nations are developing. But actually deploying railguns has been hampered by the size of the weapon and especially the vast amount of electrical energy needed to propel a shell to speeds of greater than Mach 7. For example, despite years of research and vast sums of money, the U.S. Navy appears less than optimistic about...
  • This Impressive Plasma Jet Eradicates Coronavirus on Surfaces in Seconds

    11/11/2020 6:04:31 AM PST · by Red Badger · 12 replies
    https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS 11 NOVEMBER 2020
    (Chen et al, Physics of Fluids, 2020) ======================================================================== Amongst the many problems we've had with the spread of COVID-19 is the coronavirus's ability to survive on surfaces for hours on end. While we can effectively wipe down hard materials or sterilize them with alcohol, what about more delicate surfaces like cardboard? Even in the atmosphere, SARS-CoV-2 can survive up to a few hours; on cardboard it can last for up to 24 hours, and viable particles have been detected on plastic up to three days after it was contaminated. Scientists across many disciplines are throwing their vast talents into tackling...
  • Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner's condo [Barf]

    11/01/2020 4:44:28 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 18 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | November 1, 2020 | Associated Press
    When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the company's “manufacturing facilities” in Charleston, South Carolina. Plasma Technologies LLC is indeed based in the stately waterfront city. But there are no manufacturing facilities. Instead, the company exists within the luxury condo of its majority owner, Eugene Zurlo. Zurlo's company may be in line for as much as $65 million in taxpayer dollars; enough to start building an actual production plant, according to internal government records and other documents obtained by The Associated Press. The story of how...
  • Convalescent plasma is ineffective for covid-19

    10/23/2020 5:56:46 PM PDT · by catnipman · 62 replies
    British Medical Journal ^ | 10/22/2020 | Elizabeth B Pathak
    Convalescent plasma generated great enthusiasm in the earliest days of the coronavirus disease The PLACID Trial was a rigorous randomized controlled study on a topic of enormous global importance In prespecified, intention-to-treat analyses, the PLACID Trial investigators found no net benefit associated with convalescent plasma in patients admitted to hospital with moderate covid-19 there was no net clinical benefit to patients