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Look at this dip during the last week !
Source : ClimateReanalyser.org and NSIDC
Could it be an anomaly with satellite imaging, a random statistical blip, or is something huge just about to start ?

A new study has found that Medicare for All would save over 100,000 lives in the U.S. per year while also reducing Americans’ health care spending by more than $1 trillion annually. Yale University and University of Maryland researchers have estimated that the universal single payer health care system introduced in the Medicare for All Act would prevent 114,000 deaths per year.

Matter consists of quarks. The building blocks of atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons, are composed of these fundamental particles – held together by gluons. These act as glue (English glue = Klebstoff) and hold the quarks together. However, the theory of the strong nuclear force predicts something else: gluons should also be able to bind to each other – forming so-called “gluon balls”, particles without any quark content, essentially matter made of pure cohesion.

Physicists have been searching for this state for decades. Now, the Beijing Spectrometer(BESIII) collaboration reports in a preprint on arXiv and a presentation at the International Conference on High Energy Physics. The particle X(2370) is most likely predominantly composed of a gluon ball.

The United Nations World Cities Report 2026: The Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action may lay claim to be the most important housing report ever produced. It finds that the scale of global housing inadequacy affects around 42 percent of humanity. This has never previously been measured.

Approximately 3.4 billion of the world’s 8 billion population lack access to secure, safe, and adequate housing. Housing inadequacy encompasses insecure tenure, overcrowding, exposure to environmental hazards and a lack of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, power and waste collection. More than 1.1 billion people live in informal settlements and slums, the highest number ever, up from 201 million in 2010.

UN-Habitat describes the crisis as driven by rising housing costs, limited supply, widespread displacement, inadequate grading of existing homes and informal settlements and the growing impact of climate change.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and legislators, according to internal documents seen by Nature. This means that the agency is likely to fund fewer projects assessing how public policies affect human health.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50471352

I've been hearing about these for a few years now. Huge if they work out at a large scale.

First customer, we just got set up.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1324284/study-male-circumcision-just-after-birth-does-not-increase-autism-risk

The meteor shower's peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland and a six-planet parade — though the best time to view the fireballs will come after totality.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50369090

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46294831

Gender identity among adolescents initiating hormone therapy is "highly stable," the authors write.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1309821/workers-pesticide-exposure-linked-to-60-70-heightened-motor-neuron-disease-risk

In conclusion, the dark tetrad is mostly unrelated to political orientation.

(The dark tetrad being: psychopathy, narcissism, sadism, Machiavellianism)

I thought this was interesting because the previous theories made sense to me as explanations of political orientation for certain cohorts, and I'd like to understand what creates such attitudes.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte.

Understanding the narratives and learning from the valid critiques that draw people into feeling hesitant about vaccines offers a more nuanced way to understand these views—and may open the way for a more inclusive and respectful approach to healthcare.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1289720/accepting-free-will-doesnt-exist-could-make-us-less-hateful-and-ashamed