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April 2021
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Apr

Circadian Misalignment and Metabolic Disorders: A Story of Twisted Clocks

April 5, 2021
Woller, A.; Gonze, D. Circadian Misalignment and Metabolic Disorders: A Story of Twisted Clocks. Biology 2021, 10, 207. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10030207AMA Style Simple Summary In mammals, many physiological processes follow a 24 h rhythmic pattern. These rhythms are governed by a complex network of circadian clocks, which perceives external time cues (notably light and nutrients) and adjusts the timing of...
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05
Apr

UK 5G faces £7.4bn delay amid landlord disputes

April 5, 2021
Landlords could miss out on £50m per year, according to research Source: The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/04/04/uk-5g-faces-74bn-delay-amid-landlord-disputes/ By Ben Gartside and Matthew Field, 4 April 2021 The economy will take a hit of £7.4bn due to the slow rollout of 5G if a dispute between landlords and telecoms companies continues to hold back the technology. Economists have warned reforms...
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05
Apr

Health concerns don’t matter, say feds, when it comes to regulating 5G installations

April 5, 2021
Source: https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/medford-transcript/2021/04/05/medford-officials-residents-opposed-5-g-despite-concerns-over-health/7066907002/ Neil Zolot / medford@wickedlocal.com Published April 5th, 2021 City officials are imposing some conditions on Verizon on installations of 5G telecommunications equipment on utility poles around the city, but will be required to approve the vast majority of the 44 applications, most of which are in Medford Square, South Medford and the Hillside...
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05
Apr

Kenya becomes the second African country to roll out 5G

April 5, 2021
Source: Quartz Africa https://tinyurl.com/wt9wxup9 By Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent April 1, 2021 Mobile network operator Safaricom has launched a 5G network in Kenya. This makes it the second country in Africa to roll out the technology to customers, according to GSMA, an organization representing mobile network operators worldwide. The company is trialling the technology in...
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04
Apr

The Molecule Clock and Neurodegenerative Disease: A Stressful Time

April 4, 2021
Carter B, Justin HS, Gulick D and Gamsby JJ (2021) The Molecule Clock and Neurodegenerative Disease: A Stressful Time. Front. Mol. Biosci. 8:644747. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.644747 Circadian rhythm dysfunction occurs in both common and rare neurodegenerative diseases. This dysfunction manifests as sleep cycle mistiming, alterations in body temperature rhythms, and an increase in symptomatology during the early evening...
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04
Apr

Fallen debris from SpaceX rocket launch lands on a farm in central Washington

April 4, 2021
Source: SPACE.com https://tinyurl.com/48vy9t4p A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone’s farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2) — about one week after the falling rocket debris sparked reports of “shooting stars” the U.S. Pacific Northwest.  According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, the recovered object appears to be...
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04
Apr

Raw: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris seen from Bainbridge Island

April 4, 2021
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03
Apr

Aortic aneurysm disease-Make room for chronobiology

April 3, 2021
Lopuszko A, Patrick Tan SZC, Munir W, Bashir M. Aortic aneurysm disease-Make room for chronobiology. J Card Surg. 2021 Apr 2. doi: 10.1111/jocs.15548. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33797793. Abstract Background: Aortic aneurysm (AA) is a common atherosclerotic condition, accounting for nearly 6000 deaths in England and up to 175,000 deaths globally each year. The pathological...
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03
Apr

The Military Is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check

April 3, 2021
Source: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/in-the-news/the-military-is-funding-ethicists-to-keep-its-brain-enhancement-experiments-in-check April 1, 2021 From Future Human: The military has long been interested in what medical ethicist Jonathan Moreno calls “the whole supersoldier business” — using technology to produce bionically or pharmaceutically superior warfighters. Moreno, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is interested too. Specifically, in one question that keeps gnawing at him: How...
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01
Apr

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness

April 1, 2021
M Kocifaj, F Kundracik, J C Barentine, S Bará, The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2021;, slab030, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab030 Abstract The population of artificial satellites and space debris orbiting the Earth imposes non-negligible constraints on both space operations and ground-based optical...
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