Researchers at Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the Ruhr University Bochum have developed a method for understanding formic acid crossover through Nafion-separated zero-gap cells – with and without an applied electric field. They published their results under the title “Deciphering and Countering Formic Acid Permeability in Zero-Gap Electrolyzers” in the journal “Chemistry – A European Journal”.
Read the full article at https://s.fhg.de/n9Wx
"· Children and adolescents face a significantly increased risk of Long COVID following reinfections with SARS-CoV-2
· Another study in Behavioral Sciences showed #LongCOVID also affects language proficiency in children.
· A small observational NIH study is recruiting to study if people with Long COVID have persistent SARS-C0V-2 remnants in their bodies."
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/04/01/research-updates-april-1/
@zjp Top tip: Sometimes when you click on links, there's more information on the page you arrive at. /s
Here's the link to the report, which is 84 pages long.
"Similar to the pattern observed with online bullying, kids who own a smartphone are slightly less likely to report
feeling depressed most days compared with those who don’t own a smartphone (21% vs. 26%), which may be due
to socioeconomic status affecting smartphone ownership and depression, or to reverse causation, where parents of children with depression may be less likely to give them a smartphone to protect them from the harmful effects of digital media use. By contrast, children who own a tablet are more likely to report feeling depressed compared to those who don’t (26% vs. 19%)."
“New #research finds that the origin of a roasted #coffee can be determined based upon the volatile compounds it possesses”
“able to identify hundreds of VOCs, with a ‘variable importance projection’ finding 12 key volatile markers that could be used in differentiating a #coffee’s origin
This data was then used to build predictive models that … were able to accurately determine which of the eight countries the #coffee was from” https://sprudge.com/the-e-nose-knows-identifying-a-coffees-origin-by-volatile-aromatic-compounds-311438.html
AI research tools
This is an amazing collection of many weblinks aggregating information about AI tools supporting research. I like the distinction they use for "Finding tools" versus "Connector" tools in searching for information. They also cover AI tools that act as analyzers, assistants, writers, and presenters.
"To accelerate my output, AI Chatbots and their use seemed to provide a great opportunity to grow and expand what I am able to accomplish. That’s how I arrived where I am in my AI journey."
#Technology #Information #Sharing #Webiste #FreeSpeech #OpenSource #FOSS #News #Freedom #Archive #Security #AI #ChatBot #Genealogy #Writing #Research
https://eirenicon.org/choosing-primary-chatbot-environments-ai/
"Staff who track emerging potentially deadly pathogens were fired. Staff who work on scientific and medical mysteries that hold the keys to cancer cures and efforts to address chronic diseases were fired."
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
/8
"Some of the nation’s top career scientific, public health and medical officials were fired.
Staff who protect millions of people who rely on Medicare and Medicaid were fired. Staff who’ve spent years developing safer alternatives to tobacco products that kill millions were fired."
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
/7
"President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put the nation at risk today and made us all far less safe by firing thousands of dedicated public health, medical and scientific staff across multiple agencies at HHS. …
As many as 10,000 workers might be hit by the cuts."
~ Jeff Nesbit
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
/6
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-and-kennedy-just-put-america
In response to the mass firings at HHS about which we've learned today, David Corn of MSNBC addresses Senator Cassidy of Louisiana who strongly supported RFKJr.'s confirmation:
“Sen. Bill Cassidy, you violated the Hippocratic oath when you supported RFK Jr.’s nomination and you own this—and all the horrific consequences to come.”
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
/5
Funding Problems in Open Source - What Can Be Done?
https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/3060811a-6b88-46ec-8352-9310e851b587
#Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Cmte Chair #BillCassidy (R) & Ranking Member #BernieSanders (I) sent #RFKJr a joint letter asking him to testify at an April 10 hearing to explain his "proposed reorganization" of #HHS.
Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter.
Science News reports: "Charge-parity violation occurs in a class of particles called baryons."
**Known unknowns in the North. Uncertain maps of the Arctic in early modern times**
“_By zooming in on world maps and North Pole maps from the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries and examining them in a long-term chronological sequence, we can follow lines and lands that appear and disappear and trace the winding paths of mapping processes and practices through the centuries._”
van Netten, djoeke (2025) ‘Known unknowns in the North. Uncertain maps of the Arctic in early modern times’, International Journal of Cartography, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2025.2478270.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #EarlyModern #Europe #NorthPole #Arctic #Academia #Academic @earlymodern
Top ofcls at the #NIH, the #CDC & the #FDA were put on *administrative leave* or offered reassignment to the Indian Health Service. Other employees began receiving layoff notices or learned they had lost their jobs when their entry badges no longer worked Tues morning.
At one #HHS office in Rockville, MD, long lines grew as workers were screened to determine whether they were still employed.
#MassLayoffs, #purge of leadership underway at #US #health agencies
Senior leaders across #HHS were put on *leave* & countless other employees lost their jobs Tues as the #Trump admin began a sweeping purge of the agencies that oversee govt health programs.
#PublicHealth #healthcare #disease #vaccines #research #science #medicine #pandemic #law #USpol #RFKJr #Musk #DOGE #Coup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/
"The mass culling of the labor force of the Department of Health and Human Services began on Tuesday morning. And early indications are that it’s a bloodbath."
~ Sam Stein
#RFKJr #Trump #healthcare #HHS #FDA #vaccines #vaccination #medicine #research #Texas #measles
/4
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/innocent-brutal-prison-abroad-deportation-ms-13-court-salvador
Je me souviens 
and Bob Dylan's number 
Don't Think Twice 
