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March 6, 2021
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Mar

Lost Birds Rely on Earth’s Magnetic Field to Get Back on Track

March 6, 2021
Source: Audubon magazine https://tinyurl.com/4kzfkjy6 A new study suggests that migratory birds have a kind of built-in GPS that helps them navigate the world, even when they’re far from home. By Rachel Fritts March 04, 2021 The birds were getting restless. It was 2018 and fall was in the air, triggering their instinct to leave Austria...
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Mitochondrial solar sensitivity: evolutionary and biomedical implications

March 6, 2021
Sommer AP. Mitochondrial solar sensitivity: evolutionary and biomedical implications. Ann Transl Med. 2020 Mar;8(5):161. doi: 10.21037/atm.2019.11.100. PMID: 32310246; PMCID: PMC7154450. Depending on cellular demand or oxidative stress, mitochondria produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or reactive oxygen species (ROS), thereby controlling the entire scale of cellular energy supply or disease, respectively. While deficiency in ROS can compromise...
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Light pollution inequities in the continental United States: A distributive environmental justice analysis

March 6, 2021
Shawna M. Nadybal, Timothy W. Collins, Sara E. Grineski, Light pollution inequities in the continental United States: A distributive environmental justice analysis, Environmental Research, Volume 189, 2020, 109959, ISSN 0013-9351, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109959.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935120308549) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001393 Abstract Excessive exposure to ambient light at night is a well-documented hazard to human health, yet analysts have not examined it from an...
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Mar

AFRL’s Golden Horde To Test Swarming Munitions In Digital ‘Colosseum’

March 6, 2021,
Source:  https://breakingdefense.com/2021/03/afrls-golden-horde-to-test-swarming-munitions-in-digital-colosseum/ The new simulation environment will use ‘digital twins’ to rapidly test and iterate “collaborative autonomous networked technologies,” AFRL explains. By THERESA HITCHENS on March 05, 2021 WASHINGTON: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is shifting the focus of its Golden Horde program from testing its own swarming weapons to developing a digital environment, nicknamed Colosseum, to...
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Mar

How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you

March 6, 2021
Algorithms are meaningless without good data. The public can exploit that to demand change. Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020376/resist-big-tech-surveillance-data/ by Karen Hao, March 5, 2021 Every day, your life leaves a trail of digital breadcrumbs that tech giants use to track you. You send an email, order some food, stream a show. They get back valuable packets of...
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Does exposure to 4G LTE cell phone radiation impair cell phone users’ health?

March 6, 2021
Source: Electromagnetic Radiation Safety https://www.saferemr.com/2016/05/does-long-term-exposure-to-4g-lte-cell.html Friday, March 5, 2021 Does exposure to 4G LTE cell phone radiation impair cell phone users’ health? Although 4G has been in use for over a decade and far more people in the world are currently exposed to 4G mobile phone radiation than 5G, little attention has been paid to...
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The effect of 4.5 G (LTE Advanced-Pro network) mobile phone radiation on the optic nerve

March 6, 2021
Erkin Özdemir, Ülkü Çömelekoglu, Evren Degirmenci, Gülsen Bayrak, Metin Yildirim, Tolgay Ergenoglu, Banu Coşkun Yılmaz, Begüm Korunur Engiz, Serap Yalin, Dilan Deniz Koyuncu & Erkan Ozbay (2021) The effect of 4.5 G (LTE Advanced-Pro network) mobile phone radiation on the optic nerve, Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology, DOI: 10.1080/15569527.2021.1895825 Abstract Purpose Rapid development in mobile phone technologies increase the average mobile phone...
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