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Cleaning supplies, paints, glues and other items can release harmful chemicals into indoor air. Removing them from that air can be tricky and expensive. But Stuart Strand thinks houseplants may be able to help.

Strand is an engineer at the University of Washington in Seattle. He studies ways to clean up the environment using plants and other living things.

The idea he’s working with is hardly new. NASA researchers first proposed it in the 1980s. When plants take in air through their leaves, they can use proteins called enzymes to disarm toxic chemicals. But most enzymes only work on a few types of chemicals. And plants may not have enzymes that tackle each of the pollutants in their environment. So plants’ usefulness for cleaning up pollution is limited without some help from scientists.

Strand’s team decided to work with a houseplant called pothos (POH-thoes) ivy. They boosted its pollution-breakdown ability by adding a pollution-busting gene. In tests, this altered plant removed some pollution from the air.

Strand hopes such plants will help tackle the widespread problem of home air pollution. Indoor levels of those chemicals tend to be small. But if people breathe them in every day for years and year, they might lead to disease, such as cancer. Small children and teens may get extra-large doses if they spend more time at home than their parents.

Strand’s team starting by giving plants the gene to make an enzyme called 2E1. It’s a liver enzyme shared by all mammals, including people. They used the rabbit version of this gene because they had worked with it before.

This enzyme targets small, carbon-rich molecules called VOCs. (That stands for volatile organic compounds.) VOCs are a big problem. Because they turn into a gas at room temperature, they are fairly easy to inhale. Once in our bodies, VOCs can cause breathing troubles and other problems. They can also damage DNA, increasing the risk of cancer.

Inside the liver, 2E1 can break down VOCs at the molecular level. Strand’s team wanted to know whether this liver enzyme would do the same thing inside a leaf. The good news, they found: It does.

One tough plant

The researchers chose to work with pothos ivy — also known as “devil’s ivy” — because it’s already a popular houseplant. “Even I can’t kill pothos ivy,” Strand says, “and I’m not very good with houseplants.”

They took baby plants that were only a few centimeters tall and put them in bottles. The bottles held just some water, a few nutrients and air.

After sealing the bottles, the researchers injected one of two common indoor VOCs into each bottle. Some bottles received benzene (BEN-zeen). It’s a common ring-shaped carbon-based chemical found in many things, including gasoline. Benzene often enters homes through attached garages. Other bottles got chloroform (KLOR-oh-form). This chemical forms in chlorine-treated water, like tap water. It can escape into the air during hot showers.

Scientists tested the air-cleaning power of genetically modified pothos ivy by putting small plants in sealed bottles with polluted air.

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Strand’s team also set up bottles with regular pothos ivy, and bottles with no plant at all. They let all the bottles sit in the lab for more than a week. Each day, the scientists sampled the air inside the bottles. They ran these samples through a machine called a gas chromatograph (Kroh-MAT-uh-graf). It can identify the chemicals in air.

All the chloroform bottles started out with the same amount of the gas. In bottles with the gene-altered ivy, chloroform levels fell 82 percent within three days. Chloroform levels in bottles with regular plants barely budged.

Results with benzene were similar. Its level in bottles with normal pothos dropped slightly over eight days (due to small leaks). It did the same in plant-free bottles. But in bottles with ivy able to make the 2E1 enzyme, benzene plunged by about 75 percent.

Strand and his colleagues shared their findings January 2 in Environmental Science & Technology.

Cleaning house

The results of the experiment confirm that adding 2E1 helped pothos ivy break down common VOCs. But cleaning all the air inside a tiny bottle is easier than detoxifying an entire house.

For one thing, houses and apartments are much bigger. Indeed, a plant in the living room may not be able to clean up air in the kitchen. “If you want to remove [toxic pollutants] from the air and you really want to do it well, you’ve got to move the air past the plants,” Strand says. “You can’t just have the plant sitting over there in a corner.”

VOC levels in homes tend to be much lower than those that Strand’s team tested. The researchers will need to try the ivy in air with very, very small amounts of VOCs, says M. Carmen Martínez. A plant biologist, she works at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.

In fact, Strand’s team is doing tests to find out whether ivy with the 2E1 gene can clean air in real-world homes. If it works, they hope one day to sell these plants in stores.

Still, there’s one more hurdle such plants will need to clear, says Majbrit Dela Cruz. And that is whether people will be willing to use them.

Dela Cruz is a biologist at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She studies how plants interact with chemicals, although not as part of this study. Some people distrust genetically modified organisms, also called GMOs, she notes. They may worry that adding genes to plants will have unexpected effects. Or they may fear that houseplants with rabbit genes will escape into the environment.

Strand will have to prove that 2E1 ivy won’t spread its genes outdoors before getting approval to sell it in the United States. (Pothos ivy can’t survive in cold weather, so in many places it wouldn’t live long enough to cause problems.) Even then, some people may not be willing to bring a plant with rabbit genes into their home. “Whether it’s of use in our homes,” says Dela Cruz, will depend “on whether people will accept that.”

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Kidney Cancer Drugs Market Industry Growth, Outlook and Analysis by 2018-2026

The Global Kidney Cancer Drugs Market, by Therapy Class (Targeted Therapy, Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy), by Pharmacological Class (Angiogenesis Inhibitors, mTOR Inhibitors, Cytokines and Others (Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, CTLA-4 inhibitors, Antimetabolites and Others)), by Distribution Channel (Hospital Pharmacy, Retail Pharmacy, and Online Pharmacy), and by Region (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa) was valued at US$ 4.6 billion in 2018, and is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 6.4% during the forecast period (2018 – 2026), as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights.

Various key drug manufacturers are increasingly gaining regulatory drug approval for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. These key players are launching novel and superior drug candidates in the market to capture more market share. Growing launch of innovative drugs for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma will fuel the growth of market during the forecast period.

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For instance, in April 2018, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bristol-Myers Squibb Company’s Opdivo (nivolumab) 3 mg/kg plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) 1 mg/kg, injections for intravenous use, as the first immuno-oncology combination therapy for previously untreated patients with intermediate, and poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The combination decreased the risk of death by 37 percent compared to Sutent: a kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and the adjuvant treatment of adult patients at high risk of recurrent RCC following nephrectomy.

In December 2017, the U.S. FDA granted regular approval to Exelixis, Inc.’s cabozantinib (Cabometyx) as a first line treatment for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In 2016, FDA approved Cabometyx for treatment of patients with advanced RCC who received prior anti-angiogenic therapy.

Furthermore, key players are focusing on product development through strategic collaborations and commercial expansion in emerging markets. This could lead to make market more competitive, increase revenue growth of key players, and offer lucrative growth outlook during the forecast period.

Biosimilar development is gaining traction as a promising market opportunity in kidney cancer therapeutics. Several biotech companies launched Avastin biosimilars across several cancer indications in emerging markets such as India, Russia, and Argentina. For instance, in November 2017, Biocon Ltd. launched its biosimilar, bevacizumab, for the treatment of several types of cancer, under the brand name Krabeva in India, in 100 mg/4 ml vials and 400 mg/16 ml vials formulation. Krabeva is indicated as a first-line treatment for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and used to treat lung, kidney, cervical, ovarian, and brain cancers.

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Key Takeaways of the Kidney Cancer Drugs Market:

The global kidney cancer drugs market is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 4% during the forecast period, owing to increasing engagement of key players in gaining drug approval and expand its market presence.

Among therapeutic class, targeted therapy segment accounted for major market share in 2017. Researchers in oncology field are focusing in the kidney cancer cells and developing newer drugs that target molecular and genetic changes. Targeted drugs are different from standard chemotherapy drugs and provide satisfactory result in kidney cancer treatment, where chemotherapy has not been shown to be very effective.

Among pharmacologic class, angiogenesis inhibitors segment accounted for the largest share in 2017. Angiogenesis inhibitor drugs play an important role in restricting the growth of cancer cells. Angiogenesis inhibitors blocks nutrients and oxygen supply to tumor in the kidney. Some of the angiogenesis inhibitors drugs used in kidney cancer treatment include Axitinib (Inlyta), Bevacizumab (Avastin), and Cabozantinib (Cometriq), among others.

Major players operating in the global kidney cancer drugs market include Pfizer Inc., Novartis International AG, Genentech, Inc., Active Biotech AB, Amgen Inc., Bayer AG, Cipla Limited, Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Eisai Co., Ltd. and Exelixis, Inc.

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THE FACTS: Screenshots of text messages are circulating in group chats and on social media warning that the U.S. will go into lockdown and that martial law will go into effect. The texts are often attributed to a friend of a friend or a relative who knows someone working in an official capacity for the U.S. government or a medical institution. They claim the government — sometimes federal, sometimes state or local — is about to put a quarantine in place and people won’t be allowed to leave their homes for weeks. The National Security Council knocked down the rumors on Twitter. “As we saw over the wkend, disinfo is being spread online about a supposed national lockdown and grounding flights. Be skeptical of rumors. Make sure you’re getting info from legitimate sources,” the council tweeted Thursday. The texts first emerged on a local level with messages saying that New York and Washington state would go under lockdown, with later claims suggesting that the whole nation would enforce a lockdown. President Donald Trump said at a briefing Friday that he has no plans for a national lockdown at this time. “I don’t think we’ll ever find that necessary,” he told reporters.

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CLAIM: Using a blow dryer to shoot hot air into your sinuses will kill the new coronavirus.

THE FACTS: Medical professionals said taking such action would be dangerous and would not kill the new coronavirus. Social media users are sharing clips from a 6-minute video that suggests that heat kills the coronavirus and applying heat to your nose will help eliminate it. The false claim is one of many around the new virus which doctors are actively trying to debunk. “False! Please don’t. Our nose carries bacteria, as part of normal flora. Those bacteria may get confused,” tweeted Faheem Younus, who specializes in infectious diseases at the University of Maryland. The World Health Organization has said that hand dryers cannot kill the new coronavirus and noted that the virus can still be transmitted in hot and humid climates. Dr. Jen Caudle, a family physician and associate professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, also confirmed that blowing hot air into a nose will not prevent or cure the new coronavirus. “Depending on how hot the blow dryer gets, I would be concerned with some adverse effects,” she said. Doctors like Younus and Caudle are using their social media platforms to debunk myths around the virus that has infected more than 200,000 worldwide.

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CLAIM: Research by scientists at the University of Queensland in Australia has proven that bananas bolster the immune system due to the super source of vitamin B-6 and helps prevent coronavirus.

THE FACTS: As researchers rush to develop a vaccine to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a video circulating on social media falsely claimed they had found a tie between preventing the virus and bananas. It’s not true. The 58-second video takes footage from an ABC Australia news segment, which aired in January about research at the Queensland university to create a vaccine for the virus, and combines it with a Wall Street Journal video on research around the vaccine. It then adds images of bananas overlaid with text suggesting the benefits of bananas in combating the virus. The ABC Australia and The Wall Street Journal videos, which are both available online, make no reference to bananas preventing or killing the coronavirus. A University of Queensland spokesperson told The Associated Press in an email that the video is fake and said they strongly recommend people do not share it. The claim spread in the Philippines in March after officials in the country claimed that bananas could kill the virus. While bananas are a good source of nutrients, including vitamin B6, fiber and potassium, there is no evidence that bananas can prevent or kill coronavirus.

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CLAIM: The first person to receive an experimental coronavirus vaccine during testing in Seattle is a crisis actor

THE FACTS: All participants who volunteered for vaccine test being led by Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle were screened and had to meet a set list of criteria. They were not hired as actors to simulate a role. After researchers began the first round of testing on an experimental vaccine, posts began circulating on social media claiming the first person tested was a crisis actor. To support the claim, the posts falsely suggested that volunteers were injected with saline and that a needle not used for vaccines was used. Both are false. The AP was granted exclusive access to observe the first injections. No saline shots were given as part of the study and photos taken by the AP confirm that the vaccine was given by intramuscular injection. To find participants, Kaiser Permanente advertised for volunteers in the Seattle area. Subjects were screened by phone, and had to meet a set list of criteria. Those who met the criteria were then medically assessed in person at the Kaiser Permanente facility. Some posts making the false crisis actor claim featured photos of Jennifer Haller, the first person to receive the test vaccine. The AP observed Haller, an operations manager at a small tech company, as she received the injection in an exam room. The testing that began Monday marked just the beginning of a series of studies in people needed to prove whether the shots are safe and could work. Even if the research goes well, a vaccine would not be available for widespread use for 12 to 18 months, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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CLAIM: Coronavirus remains in the throat for four days, drinking water and gargling with warm water mixed with salt or vinegar eliminates the virus.

THE FACTS: Medical officials said there is no evidence that gargling with the mixture will combat the novel coronavirus. False posts containing the claim have been shared widely on social media. One widely shared post states: “Corona virus before it reaches the lungs it remains in the throat for four days and at this time the person begins to cough and have throat pains. If he drinks water a lot and gargling with warm water & salt or vinegar eliminates the virus. Spread this information because you can save someone with this information.” Dr. Robert Legare Atmar, Infectious Disease expert at the Baylor College of Medicine, told the AP while the virus may be detected in the throat for at least a week after the onset of symptoms, the information about gargling is false. “There is no evidence for coronavirus or other respiratory viruses that drinking water or gargling protect against subsequent infection and illness,” he said. “In fact, doing these activities might give people a false sense of security, which would be dangerous if it resulted in behavior that is more risky.” It can be detected in the throat for at least a week after symptom onset, at least in some people, Atmar said.

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CLAIM: Parents who can’t find or afford baby formula right now, Enfamil and Gerber will send you a free case of formula.

THE FACTS: As consumers emptied store shelves stocking up on necessities in anticipation of shortages around the novel coronavirus, social media posts claimed that makers of baby formula would help ease any scarcity by sending a case of formula to those in need. “For parents who cannot find formula in stores for their babies right now, grab the can for formula that you do have and call the number on the back and they will send you a whole case during this time,” said one tweet posted just after midnight Monday. By Tuesday afternoon it had more than 21,000 shares and 16,000 likes. Both Gerber and Enfamil said the posts circulating online are not true, and emphasized they are working with retailers to keep shelves stocked.

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This is part of The Associated Press’ ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.

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74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2017

This past year, reporters on The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health desks worked tirelessly, writing hundreds of stories. Each of those stories is packed with facts that surprised us, delighted us, and in some cases, unsettled us. Instead of picking our favorite stories, we decided to round up a small selection of the most astonishing things we learned in 2017. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did, and we hope you’ll be back for more in 2018:

The record for the longest top spin is over 51 minutes. Your fidget spinner probably won’t make it past 60 seconds.

Flamingos have self-locking legs, which makes them more stable on one leg than on two.

If your home furnace emits some methane pollution on the last day of 2017, it’ll almost certainly leave the atmosphere by 2030—but it could still be raising global sea levels in 2817.

By analyzing enough Facebook likes, an algorithm can predict someone’s personality better than their friends and family can.

There are cliff-hanging nests in northern Greenland that have been used continuously for 2,500 years by families of the largest falcons in the world. Researchers read the layers of bird poop in the nests like tree rings.

Hippos can’t swim.

Six-month-old babies can understand basic words like mouth and nose. They even know that concepts like mouth and nose are more related than nose and bottle.

Most common eastern North American tree species have been mysteriously shifting west since 1980.

In 2016, Waymo’s virtual cars logged 2.5 billion miles in simulated versions of California, Texas, and Arizona.

America’s emergency 9-1-1 calling infrastructure is so old that there are some parts you can’t even replace anymore when they break.

The transmitters on the Voyager spacecraft have as much power as refrigerator light bulbs, but they still ping Earth every day from billions of miles away.

By one estimate, one-third of Americans currently in their early 20s will never get married.

Donald Trump has a long and gif-heavy presence on the early web.

Somewhere around 10,000 U.S. companies—including the majority of the Fortune 500—still assess employees based on the Myers-Briggs test.

Humans have inadvertently created an artificial bubble around Earth, formed when radio communications from the ground interact with high-energy particles in space. This bubble is capable of shielding the planet from potentially dangerous space weather like solar flares.

Climate-change-linked heat waves are already making tens of thousands of Americans sleep worse.

China poured more concrete from 2011 to 2013 than America did during the entire 20th century.

A lay minister and math Ph.D. was the best checkers player in the world for 40 years, spawning a computer scientist’s obsessive quest to solve the entire game to prove the man could be beaten.

There is a huge waterfall in Antarctica, where the Nansen Ice Shelf meets the sea.

On Facebook, Russian trolls created and promoted dual events on May 21, 2016, bringing Muslim and anti-Muslim Americans into real-world conflict at an Islamic center in Houston.

Boxer crabs wield sea anemones like boxing gloves, and if they lose one of these allies, they can make another by ripping the remaining one in half and cloning it.

Cocktail napkins on airplanes may be essentially useless to travelers, but to airlines they are valuable space for advertising.

Scientists can figure out the storm tracks of 250-year-old winter squalls by reading a map hidden in tree rings across the Pacific Northwest.

On islands, deer are occasionally spotted licking small animals, like cats and foxes—possibly because the ocean breeze makes everything salty.

People complained of an “epidemic of fake news” in 1896.

Languages worldwide have more words for describing warm colors than cool colors.

Turkeys are twice as big as they were in 1960, and most of that change is genetic.

Two Chinese organizations control over half of the global Bitcoin-mining operations—and by now, they might control more. If they collaborate (or collude), the blockchain technology that supposedly secures Bitcoin could be compromised.

U.S. physicians prescribe 3,150 percent of the necessary amount of opioids.

Physicists discovered a new “void” in the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays.

Daily and seasonal temperature variations can trigger rockfalls, even if the temperature is always above freezing, by expanding and contracting rocks until they crack.

The eight counties with the largest declines in life expectancy since 1980 are all in the state of Kentucky.

The decline of sales in luxury timepieces has less to do with the rise of smartwatches and more to do with the rising cost of gold, the decline of the British pound, and a crackdown on Chinese corruption.

Spider silk is self-strengthening; it can suck up chemicals from the insects it touches to make itself stronger.

Intelligence doesn’t make someone more likely to change their mind. People with higher IQs are better at crafting arguments to support a position—but only if they already agree with it.

Among the strangest and yet least-questioned design choices of internet services is that every service must be a global service.

Steven Gundry, one of the main doctors who has contributed to Goop, believes Mercola.com, a prominent anti-vaccine site, is a site that gives “very useful health advice.”

At many pumpkin- and squash-growing competitions, entries are categorized by color: Any specimen that’s at least 80 percent orange is a pumpkin, and everything else is a squash.

Only 2 percent of all U.S. Google employees are black, and only 4 percent are Hispanic. In tech-oriented positions, the numbers fall to 1 percent and 3 percent, respectively.

The weight of the huge amount of water Hurricane Harvey dumped on Texas pushed the earth’s crust down 2 centimeters.

Russian scientists plan to re-wild the Arctic with bioengineered woolly mammoths.

The NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter can never take the same picture of the gas planet because the clouds of its atmosphere are always moving, swirling into new shapes and patterns.

During sex, male cabbage white butterflies inject females with packets of nutrients. The females chew their way into these with a literal vagina dentata, and genitals that double as a souped-up stomach.

If all people want from apps is to see new stuff scroll onto the screen, it might not matter if that content is real or fake.

Cardiac stents are extremely expensive and popular, and yet they don’t appear to have any definite benefits outside of acute heart attacks.

Animal-tracking technology is just showing off at this point: Researchers can glue tiny barcodes to the backs of carpenter ants in a lab and scan them repeatedly to study the insects’ movements.

One recommendation from a happiness expert is to build a “pride shrine,” which is a place in your house that you pass a lot where you put pictures that trigger pleasant memories, or diplomas or awards that remind you of accomplishments.

Some ancient rulers, including Alexander the Great, executed a substitute king after an eclipse, as a kind of sacrificial hedge.

A colon-cancer gene found in Utah can be traced back to a single Mormon pioneer couple from the 1840s.

In November and December 2016, 92,635 people called the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line to ask for turkey-cooking advice. That’s an average of over 1,500 calls per day.

In the United States as a whole, less than 1 percent of the land is hardscape. In cities, up to 40 percent is impervious.

​Half of murdered women are killed by their romantic partners.​

Among the Agta hunter-gatherers of the Philippines, storytelling is valued more than hunting, fishing, or basically any other skill.

The familiar metal tokens in the board game Monopoly didn’t originally come with the game, to save costs. Popular bracelet charms of the Great Depression were only added to the box later.

Thanks to the internet, American parents are seeking out more unique names for their children, trying to keep them from fading into the noise of Google. The median boy’s name in 2015 (Luca) was given to one out of every 782 babies, whereas the median boy’s name in 1955 (Edward) was given to one out of every 100 babies.

America’s five most valuable companies are all located on the Pacific Coast between Northern California and Seattle.

President Kennedy secretly had Addison’s disease, a hormonal disorder, which he treated with injections of amphetamines and steroids from Max Jacobson, a doctor whose nickname was “Dr. Feelgood.”

Some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way were actually “stolen” from a nearby galaxy as the two passed near each other.

Hummingbirds drink in an unexpected way: Their tongues bloom open like a flower when they hit nectar, and close on the way out to grab some of the sweet liquid.

New York City has genetically distinct uptown and downtown rats.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 created one of the most detailed maps of the deep ocean ever.

People who can’t find opioids are taking an over-the-counter diarrhea drug. Some are consuming as many as 400 to 500 pills a day.

It used to take 10,000 pounds of pork pancreas to make one pound of insulin. (Insulin is now made by genetically engineered microbes.)

Astronauts on the International Space Station can’t enjoy the yummy aromas of hot meals like we can on Earth because heat dissipates in all different directions in microgravity.

“Sex addiction” isn’t recognized by the psychiatric community in any official capacity, and it’s actually a deeply problematic concept that risks absolving men of agency in sexual violence.

The peculiar (and previously unidentified) laughter that was recorded for the Golden Record was—well, we won’t spoil it for you until you read the story.

The oldest rocks on Earth, which are 4 billion years old, have signs of life in them, which suggests that the planet was biological from its very infancy.

Fire ants form giant floating rafts during floods. But you can break up the rafts with dish soap.

Until this year, no one knew about a whole elaborate system of lymphatic vessels in our brains.

People are worse storytellers when their listeners don’t vocally indicate they’re paying attention by saying things like “uh-huh” and “mm-hmm.”

China’s new radio telescope is large enough to hold two bowls of rice for every human being on the planet.

Scientists calculated that if everyone in the United States switched from eating beef to eating beans, we could still get around halfway to President Obama’s 2020 climate goals.

The reason that dentistry is a separate discipline from medicine can be traced back to an event in 1840 known as the “historic rebuff”—when two self-trained dentists asked the University of Maryland at Baltimore if they could add dental training to the curriculum at the college of medicine. The physicians said no.

Naked mole rats can survive for 18 minutes without any oxygen at all.

from Health News And Updates https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/the-science-facts-that-blew-our-minds-in-2017/549122/?utm_source=feed

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74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2017

This past year, reporters on The Atlantic’s science, technology, and health desks worked tirelessly, writing hundreds of stories. Each of those stories is packed with facts that surprised us, delighted us, and in some cases, unsettled us. Instead of picking our favorite stories, we decided to round up a small selection of the most astonishing things we learned in 2017. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did, and we hope you’ll be back for more in 2018:

The record for the longest top spin is over 51 minutes. Your fidget spinner probably won’t make it past 60 seconds.

Flamingos have self-locking legs, which makes them more stable on one leg than on two.

If your home furnace emits some methane pollution on the last day of 2017, it’ll almost certainly leave the atmosphere by 2030—but it could still be raising global sea levels in 2817.

By analyzing enough Facebook likes, an algorithm can predict someone’s personality better than their friends and family can.

There are cliff-hanging nests in northern Greenland that have been used continuously for 2,500 years by families of the largest falcons in the world. Researchers read the layers of bird poop in the nests like tree rings.

Hippos can’t swim.

Six-month-old babies can understand basic words like mouth and nose. They even know that concepts like mouth and nose are more related than nose and bottle.

Most common eastern North American tree species have been mysteriously shifting west since 1980.

In 2016, Waymo’s virtual cars logged 2.5 billion miles in simulated versions of California, Texas, and Arizona.

America’s emergency 9-1-1 calling infrastructure is so old that there are some parts you can’t even replace anymore when they break.

The transmitters on the Voyager spacecraft have as much power as refrigerator light bulbs, but they still ping Earth every day from billions of miles away.

By one estimate, one-third of Americans currently in their early 20s will never get married.

Donald Trump has a long and gif-heavy presence on the early web.

Somewhere around 10,000 U.S. companies—including the majority of the Fortune 500—still assess employees based on the Myers-Briggs test.

Humans have inadvertently created an artificial bubble around Earth, formed when radio communications from the ground interact with high-energy particles in space. This bubble is capable of shielding the planet from potentially dangerous space weather like solar flares.

Climate-change-linked heat waves are already making tens of thousands of Americans sleep worse.

China poured more concrete from 2011 to 2013 than America did during the entire 20th century.

A lay minister and math Ph.D. was the best checkers player in the world for 40 years, spawning a computer scientist’s obsessive quest to solve the entire game to prove the man could be beaten.

There is a huge waterfall in Antarctica, where the Nansen Ice Shelf meets the sea.

On Facebook, Russian trolls created and promoted dual events on May 21, 2016, bringing Muslim and anti-Muslim Americans into real-world conflict at an Islamic center in Houston.

Boxer crabs wield sea anemones like boxing gloves, and if they lose one of these allies, they can make another by ripping the remaining one in half and cloning it.

Cocktail napkins on airplanes may be essentially useless to travelers, but to airlines they are valuable space for advertising.

Scientists can figure out the storm tracks of 250-year-old winter squalls by reading a map hidden in tree rings across the Pacific Northwest.

On islands, deer are occasionally spotted licking small animals, like cats and foxes—possibly because the ocean breeze makes everything salty.

People complained of an “epidemic of fake news” in 1896.

Languages worldwide have more words for describing warm colors than cool colors.

Turkeys are twice as big as they were in 1960, and most of that change is genetic.

Two Chinese organizations control over half of the global Bitcoin-mining operations—and by now, they might control more. If they collaborate (or collude), the blockchain technology that supposedly secures Bitcoin could be compromised.

U.S. physicians prescribe 3,150 percent of the necessary amount of opioids.

Physicists discovered a new “void” in the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays.

Daily and seasonal temperature variations can trigger rockfalls, even if the temperature is always above freezing, by expanding and contracting rocks until they crack.

The eight counties with the largest declines in life expectancy since 1980 are all in the state of Kentucky.

The decline of sales in luxury timepieces has less to do with the rise of smartwatches and more to do with the rising cost of gold, the decline of the British pound, and a crackdown on Chinese corruption.

Spider silk is self-strengthening; it can suck up chemicals from the insects it touches to make itself stronger.

Intelligence doesn’t make someone more likely to change their mind. People with higher IQs are better at crafting arguments to support a position—but only if they already agree with it.

Among the strangest and yet least-questioned design choices of internet services is that every service must be a global service.

Steven Gundry, one of the main doctors who has contributed to Goop, believes Mercola.com, a prominent anti-vaccine site, is a site that gives “very useful health advice.”

At many pumpkin- and squash-growing competitions, entries are categorized by color: Any specimen that’s at least 80 percent orange is a pumpkin, and everything else is a squash.

Only 2 percent of all U.S. Google employees are black, and only 4 percent are Hispanic. In tech-oriented positions, the numbers fall to 1 percent and 3 percent, respectively.

The weight of the huge amount of water Hurricane Harvey dumped on Texas pushed the earth’s crust down 2 centimeters.

Russian scientists plan to re-wild the Arctic with bioengineered woolly mammoths.

The NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter can never take the same picture of the gas planet because the clouds of its atmosphere are always moving, swirling into new shapes and patterns.

During sex, male cabbage white butterflies inject females with packets of nutrients. The females chew their way into these with a literal vagina dentata, and genitals that double as a souped-up stomach.

If all people want from apps is to see new stuff scroll onto the screen, it might not matter if that content is real or fake.

Cardiac stents are extremely expensive and popular, and yet they don’t appear to have any definite benefits outside of acute heart attacks.

Animal-tracking technology is just showing off at this point: Researchers can glue tiny barcodes to the backs of carpenter ants in a lab and scan them repeatedly to study the insects’ movements.

One recommendation from a happiness expert is to build a “pride shrine,” which is a place in your house that you pass a lot where you put pictures that trigger pleasant memories, or diplomas or awards that remind you of accomplishments.

Some ancient rulers, including Alexander the Great, executed a substitute king after an eclipse, as a kind of sacrificial hedge.

A colon-cancer gene found in Utah can be traced back to a single Mormon pioneer couple from the 1840s.

In November and December 2016, 92,635 people called the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line to ask for turkey-cooking advice. That’s an average of over 1,500 calls per day.

In the United States as a whole, less than 1 percent of the land is hardscape. In cities, up to 40 percent is impervious.

​Half of murdered women are killed by their romantic partners.​

Among the Agta hunter-gatherers of the Philippines, storytelling is valued more than hunting, fishing, or basically any other skill.

The familiar metal tokens in the board game Monopoly didn’t originally come with the game, to save costs. Popular bracelet charms of the Great Depression were only added to the box later.

Thanks to the internet, American parents are seeking out more unique names for their children, trying to keep them from fading into the noise of Google. The median boy’s name in 2015 (Luca) was given to one out of every 782 babies, whereas the median boy’s name in 1955 (Edward) was given to one out of every 100 babies.

America’s five most valuable companies are all located on the Pacific Coast between Northern California and Seattle.

President Kennedy secretly had Addison’s disease, a hormonal disorder, which he treated with injections of amphetamines and steroids from Max Jacobson, a doctor whose nickname was “Dr. Feelgood.”

Some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way were actually “stolen” from a nearby galaxy as the two passed near each other.

Hummingbirds drink in an unexpected way: Their tongues bloom open like a flower when they hit nectar, and close on the way out to grab some of the sweet liquid.

New York City has genetically distinct uptown and downtown rats.

The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 created one of the most detailed maps of the deep ocean ever.

People who can’t find opioids are taking an over-the-counter diarrhea drug. Some are consuming as many as 400 to 500 pills a day.

It used to take 10,000 pounds of pork pancreas to make one pound of insulin. (Insulin is now made by genetically engineered microbes.)

Astronauts on the International Space Station can’t enjoy the yummy aromas of hot meals like we can on Earth because heat dissipates in all different directions in microgravity.

“Sex addiction” isn’t recognized by the psychiatric community in any official capacity, and it’s actually a deeply problematic concept that risks absolving men of agency in sexual violence.

The peculiar (and previously unidentified) laughter that was recorded for the Golden Record was—well, we won’t spoil it for you until you read the story.

The oldest rocks on Earth, which are 4 billion years old, have signs of life in them, which suggests that the planet was biological from its very infancy.

Fire ants form giant floating rafts during floods. But you can break up the rafts with dish soap.

Until this year, no one knew about a whole elaborate system of lymphatic vessels in our brains.

People are worse storytellers when their listeners don’t vocally indicate they’re paying attention by saying things like “uh-huh” and “mm-hmm.”

China’s new radio telescope is large enough to hold two bowls of rice for every human being on the planet.

Scientists calculated that if everyone in the United States switched from eating beef to eating beans, we could still get around halfway to President Obama’s 2020 climate goals.

The reason that dentistry is a separate discipline from medicine can be traced back to an event in 1840 known as the “historic rebuff”—when two self-trained dentists asked the University of Maryland at Baltimore if they could add dental training to the curriculum at the college of medicine. The physicians said no.

Naked mole rats can survive for 18 minutes without any oxygen at all.

Article source here:The Atlantic

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New England’s Patriot Pot Growers

Our senior cultivation editor takes a trip to the Great Northeast to check out the gardens of family farmers, commercial-level cultivators, patient caregivers and cannabis consultants to find out what’s growing in the newly legal states of Maine and Massachusetts.

A wicked cool double trellis system keeps plants upright and in the light. (Photo by Brian Jahn)

Migs in Maine

The first garden we toured on our trip to New England is run by a gentleman who calls himself Migs. He’s a Maine caregiver with a patient collective run by and for medical marijuana patients. Although Migs is concerned about what the new adult-use law will do to Maine’s medical marijuana system, he’s keeping his hopes up and staying ready for anything.

Migs’s grow is a drain-to-waste drip system with plants in 15-gallon containers that are fed five times a day. The nutrients are custom-built on a foundation of Cutting Edge Solutions products for the base, as well as supplemental teas. Corrugated roofing is used to hold up the pots and drain the used nutrient solution away. The plants remain in their vegetative stage for a full month before flowering is induced.

The medium here is made up of 50% peat, 40% coco and 10% grow stones. A scoop of worm castings and a half-scoop of stone meal (basalt) are added as well. This results in a very loose and airy mix that allows plenty of oxygen to get to the roots, and Migs never lets it dry out completely. A unique custom-made double-trellis system employs two levels of aluminum tubes strung across the canopy with netting. The plants are trained into the first row of tubes for the grow, and then trained into the second row above it to support their heavy buds during flowering.

Mother of Berries (or MOB for short) is a popular strain in the Northeast.(Photo by Brian Jahn)

The CES nutrients are supplemented with a biweekly tea brew hand-fed to every plant. The tea consists of cold-pressed seaweed, a “shitload” of worm castings, blackstrap molasses and beneficial bacteria. The tea is oxygenated for 24 hours using an air pump and air stones, and the molasses is added for only the last hour of brewing. Prior to harvest, the “Little Guy” performs a 10-day flush with 5 gallons of RO (reverse-osmosis) filtered water per day.

We visited Migs before Maine’s recent vote to legalize the adult use of cannabis, but I reached out to him after the results were in to get his response. “The cannabis culture is volatile at best,” Migs said. “There’s very little solid ground to stand on, and one always has to be ready for new regulations and potential pitfalls. It’s not a business for those who are weak at heart or lack the willingness to adapt. With Trump, Jeff Sessions, and our Governor Paul LePage’s attempts to put the brakes on Prop. 1 [Maine’s legalization initiative]—and with it passing by less than 1 percent, with talk of a recount—it’s tough to say what will happen next.

“With the new federal regime rallying against cannabis,” Migs continued, “it’s now time more than ever to work at the local level to expand the testing and research on medical cannabis. It’s my hope that the laws are as liberal as possible, and that they work to protect the small farmer and pot patients and health sovereignty first!”

Port City Relief

Next, we took a short ride closer to Portland to meet up with the good folks at Port City Relief, one of Maine’s premier cannabis providers, assisted by TopCrop Consulting. Nick Messer, Kevin Young and the rest of the crew showed us around the facility, and I was impressed by their professionalism and the cleanliness of their grow and processing spaces. All of the various cultivation and laboratory environments were tightly controlled, sterile and completely hygienic.

As we strolled through the facility, Nick and Kevin explained their cannabis-production philosophy. Serving as two of the three co-presidents of the Maine Marijuana Processing Association, they’re looking to establish standards that protect medical cannabis patients. Their goal is to produce organically grown, medicinal-quality cannabis, extracts and edibles without the use of toxic pesticides or PGRs (plant-growth regulators).

Port City Relief grows chunky Blissful Wizard flowers under 1000-watt HPS lights. (Photo by Brian Jahn)

The plants at the Port City Relief facility are started in cloning rooms. After rooting, they’re moved to the vegetative rooms, where six SolisTek 1,000-watt metal halide (MH) digital lights hang above 20-gallon containers filled with coco blend, perlite and paramagnetic rocks. These plants are hand-fed with Biobizz nutrients during their two months in the vegetative stage, until they develop thick trunks and abundant branches for bud sites. The containers sit on corrugated metal over movable rolling beds, and the nutrient solution drains to waste.

The plants go into their flowering stage under 1,000-watt Gavita high-pressure sodium (HPS) lights. All of the grow areas are controlled using technology from Lifesprings Microclimates, which creates customized systems to suit commercial farmers’ needs. Lifesprings is headquartered in Auburn, Maine, but provides services nationally, including HVAC, odor control, lighting, CO2 injection, decontamination and more.

As we inspected the immaculate processing area, Nick and Kevin demonstrated some rosin-press techniques for us. High-powered hydraulic presses literally squeeze the essential oils right out of the flowers or dry-sifted gland heads. The oils ooze out and are a dabbable alternative to solvent-based extracts like butane hash oil, or BHO.

I followed up with Kevin after the trip to find out what the Port City Relief crew thought about the changes coming to their state. “Maine has had one of the best medical cannabis programs in the country since its establishment in 1999,” he told me. “We don’t want to see it disappear like Seattle’s program. We would like to see the two co-exist, as with Colorado’s medical cannabis program, so we can care for patients. I feel bad for the 3,000-plus caregivers that have put their heart and soul into building a small business; we hope to protect them and ourselves. Maine has one of the worst economies in the United States. The recreational marijuana program could generate new brands and over $150 million in taxable dollars each year. This allows the consumer to have a larger selection of product, and the tax dollars generated can be used to build schools, infrastructure, drug rehab and social programs.

“Maine will be a leader of the cannabis industry in New England no matter how the laws play out,” Kevin added. “Come up to Vacationland and see for yourself!”

Ace of Spades from TGA Genetics (Subcool Seeds) is a cross of Black Cherry Soda and Jack the Ripper. (Photo by Brian Jahn)

Buzz’s Garden

Further on up the road, we meet with Buzz and his family, who all participate in tending a perpetual-harvest medical marijuana grow. As a caregiver and patient, Buzz says, he’s “been keeping my family fed for five years legally.” He also keeps everything as organic as possible, telling me: “I try to stay veganic, but every once in a while, I play with some poop!”

Buzz’s medium starts with the classic Sunshine Mix #4, to which he adds earthworm castings, humisoil, greensand, alfalfa and kelp meal. The plants are hand-fed General Organics nutrients and Vegamatrix’s Hard-n-Quick foliar spray, and they’re grown in 3-gallon buckets with a one-month vegetative time under MH and T5 fluorescent lighting. Then they move into the flowering rooms to bloom under air-cooled HPS bulbs and get Vegamatrix’s Big-n-Sticky as an additive.

How does the perpetual-harvest system work? Under Maine’s medical marijuana law, Buzz is allowed to have eight plants apiece in their various stages: eight in the cloner, and another eight in early veg, mid-veg, late veg, early flower, mid-flower, late flower and harvest.

“Ultimately,” Buzz tells me, “we aim to harvest one plant per day and always have the same turnaround … never too much, and as earthy and clean as we can. We try to recycle everything and tread lightly—patients before profits.” His advice for beginning growers is to learn from their mistakes and keep trying. “We have had some impatient patients!” he jokes.

Dark Star (Photo by Brian Jahn)

The plants in Buzz’s garden get a 10-day flush with filtered water right before harvest. Then they’re trimmed wet and hung up to dry. Once the branches snap instead of bending, the buds are snipped off and put into jars for curing.

“It’s weird to me that we’re refugees from just down the road,” Buzz points out concerning his setup. “In New Hampshire, if we had one plant, we’d be felons. Here, up to 99 is a misdemeanor, and we’re less than 10 miles away!”

Regarding Prop. 1, Buzz acknowledges that “many growers voted against it, thinking that it favors big business instead of the local economy. A lot of us are scared to lose our livelihoods. Washington State’s medical system seemingly fell apart from their adult-use law, and now they’re complaining about overregulation, high taxes and exorbitant licensing fees. Plus Trump coming in throws a serious wildcard into our future as well. There’s a ton of confusion, anxiety and some excitement up here. Time will tell.”

Eric from MassCannabis Consulting

The final stop on our trip was in Western Massachusetts, another state whose voters recently legalized marijuana for adult use. We were there before the election, so the garden we visited was a medical one run by Eric Vallee, a multiple Cannabis Cup–winning grower.

Undercurrent hydroponic systems from Current Culture grow big plants quickly. (Photo by Brian Jahn)

Eric and his collective of friends have been bringing home trophies regularly for their flowers and concentrates, including a 2015 first-place win in Michigan for Best Sativa Flower with their Strawberry Banana; a shared first-place win for Best Non-Solvent Extract at the 2015 World Cannabis Cup in Jamaica with their Strawberry Banana Hand-Pressed Rosin; and yet another first-place win in the 2016 SoCal Indica Flower category with Grape Stomper OG, just to name a few.

Eric runs the consulting company MassCannabis Consulting and works with his buddies Jason Bates, breeder and owner of Mass Genetics, and Peter Molle, its manager. Eric also co-owns Nerd Creations with his friend Lorenzo, and they’ve won multiple awards worldwide for their concentrates as well.

Despite this hectic résumé, “I’m just a grower,” Eric says, “but I do a little consulting on the side. Most of all, I love pheno-hunting for keeper mother plants from seed crops. Smokers and dabbers love the Strawberry Banana and Tangie we grow from Crockett Family Farms, and extract artists especially love our Kosher Kush pheno that we grow from DNA Genetics, as they’ve been getting 24 to 27 percent returns!”

Strawberry Fields filling out in Eric’s garden. (Photo by Brian Jahn)

Eric regularly harvests 10 pounds of medical cannabis from a space that has just 16 plants under four 1,000-watt HPS lights with a two-and-a-half-week vegetative time. He does this using two eight-site Under Current recirculating hydroponic systems from Current Culture. You can practically see the plants growing before your eyes when you dial in this sophisticated and highly aerobic setup. The 16 plants—four under each light—are fed with General Hydroponics’ Flora Nova three-part nute system along with some GH additives.

I asked Eric about his future plans in light of the newly legal landscape in Massachusetts. “Hopefully, with the lifting of prohibition here and in other parts of New England, the social stigma will lift and business will pick up,” he replied. To that end, he and his bud brothers are focused on breeding projects for their seed companies and looking to one day expand into a bigger marijuana marketplace.

Related: Harvesting Under the Humboldt Sun

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