Label date, not phrasing, drives consumer decisions to toss food
Updated: 2023-06-30 15:04:23
, , Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Label date , not phrasing , drives consumer decisions to toss food June 30, 2023 Ohio State University Up to half of consumers may decide to pour perfectly good milk down the drain based solely on their glance at the date label on the carton , a new study . suggests Researchers using eye-tracking technology found that 50 of study participants declared their intent to throw away milk based on the date stamped on the container â without ever even looking at the label phrasing in front of the date. Each participant saw one of three phrasing options : âSell by,â âBest if used byâ or âUse byâ a given date , as well as containers with no label at all. âWe asked them if they
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search The first neutrino image of our galaxy June 30, 2023 Stockholm University Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens blue For the first time , researchers have produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos , which were observed with the IceCube telescope in the Antarctic ice . The neutrino image suggests that cosmic ray interactions are more intense in the center of our galaxy than once thought . The results are published in an article in the journal Science For ages , the view of our Milky Way galaxy has inspired awe , visible with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars that stretches across the sky . Now IceCube researchers are able to see the Milky Way using neutrinos â tiny , ghostlike
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Gullies on Mars could have been formed by recent periods of liquid meltwater June 30, 2023 Brown University Image of the Terra Sirenum and its gullies captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter . A study led by Brown University researchers offers new insights into how water from melting ice could have played a recent role in the formation of ravine-like channels that cut down the sides of impact craters on . Mars The study , published in Science focuses on Martian gullies , which look eerily similar to gullies that form on Earth in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and are caused by water erosion from melting glaciers . The
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search House catsâ noses may function like highly efficient chemical analysis equipment June 30, 2023 PLOS ONE Researchers use a 3D model to find that house catsâ noses may function like highly efficient chemical analysis equipment . A new computer simulation of domestic catsâ noses suggests that the convoluted nasal structures involved in their sense of smell function similarly to parallel coiled gas chromatographsâlaboratory equipment used for highly efficient analysis of the chemical makeup of substances . Zhenxing Wu of the Ohio State University , U.S . and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology  on June 29, 2023. Vertebrates use their
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Children with Medicaid less likely to receive helmet therapy for a flattened head June 30, 2023 Wolters Kluwer  When indicated , helmet therapy is a highly effective treatment for position-related head flattening deformational plagiocephaly DP in infants However , infants with Medicaid insurance are less likely to receive helmet therapy and more likely to have delayed treatment , reports the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®  the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons  (ASPS The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer Our study also shows wide variation in access to helmet therapy for DP between states ,
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Is early childhood education contributing to socioeconomic disparities June 30, 2023 New York University Students from middle- and upper-class backgrounds are more likely to participate in classroom discussions than are equally capable students from working-class backgrounds , finds a new study of preschool children in France by an international team of researchers . The work also shows that these differences may shape how students are perceived by their . peers The results , which appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology : General , shed new light on the persistent and early emerging disparities in education linked to socioeconomic status SES âWhile preschool attendance has been
, Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Water fasts can help you lose weight , but you might gain it back quickly June 30, 2023 University of Illinois Water fasts â where people consume nothing but water for several days â might help you lose weight , but itâ s unclear how long youâ ll keep it off , according to research from the University of Illinois Chicago . And the other metabolic benefits of water fasts , such as lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol , seem to disappear soon after the fast ends , the researchers . found However , there do not appear to be any serious adverse effects for those who do a water fast or a similar kind of fast where people consume a very small number of calories a day , said Krista
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search NASAâ s Webb identifies the earliest strands of the cosmic web June 30, 2023 NASA JPL This deep galaxy field from Webbâ s NIRCam Near-Infrared Camera shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies marked by eight white circles in a diagonal , thread-like line . Two of the circles contain more than one galaxy . This 3 million light-year-long filament is anchored by a very distant and luminous quasar â a galaxy with an active , supermassive black hole at its core . The quasar , called J0305-3150, appears in the middle of the cluster of three circles on the right side of the image . Its brightness outshines its host galaxy . The 10 marked galaxies existed just 830 million years after the big
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search New single-photon Raman lidar can monitor for underwater oil leaks June 30, 2023 Optica Researchers developed a single-photon Raman lidar system that operates underwater and can remotely distinguish various substances They demonstrated the system by using it to detect varying thicknesses of gasoline oil in a quartz cell that was 12 meters away from the system in a large pool . Researchers report a new single-photon Raman lidar system that operates underwater and can remotely distinguish various substances . They also show that the new system can detect the thickness of the oil underwater up to 12 m away , which could be useful for detecting oil . spills âDifferentiating substances in water
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search A simulation finds solutions to a central mystery in space physics June 30, 2023 University of Helsinki Plasma eruptions in near-Earth space How are plasma eruptions in near-Earth space formed Vlasiator , a model designed at the University of Helsinki for simulating near-Earth space , demonstrated that the two central theories on the occurrence of eruptions are simultaneously valid : eruptions are explained by both magnetic reconnection and kinetic . instabilities Rapid plasma eruptions known as plasmoids take place on the nightside of the magnetosphere . Plasmoids are also associated with the sudden brightening of the aurora . The space physics research group at the University of Helsinki
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search An early predictor of cognitive decline in Parkinsonâ s disease June 30, 2023 EPFL Early hallucinations in Parkinson's disease are associated with frontal cognitive decline triangles and preceded by specific frontal neural oscillation theta frequency band Have you ever felt the strong sensation that someone is behind you , so intense that you turn around , only to see that no-one is there This is a presence hallucinationâ Presence hallucinations are particularly frequent but underreported in patients with Parkinsonâ s disease and may appear early on in the course of the disease . They are sometimes ignored by the patient , by clinicians , or brushed off as a simple side-effect of .
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Unveiling the origins of merging black holes in galaxies like our own June 30, 2023 University of Geneva A 31.5 solar-mass black hole with an 8.38 solar-mass black hole companion viewed in front of its computer generated stellar nursery prior to merging . Black holes , some of the most captivating entities in the cosmos, possess an immense gravitational pull so strong that not even light can . escape The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves in 2015, caused by the coalescence of two black holes , opened a new window into the universe . Since then , dozens of such observations have sparked the quest among astrophysicists to understand their astrophysical origins . Thanks to the 
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Sandia leans into a hybrid work model June 30, 2023 U.S . Department of Energy Matthew-Ryan Morrell , strategic site planning manager , uses a soundproof booth to participate in a Teams meeting at the collaboration space in IPOC at Sandia National Laboratories . Photo by Craig Fritz Sandia National Laboratories is adopting a permanent hybrid workforce , increasing the number of telecommuters and remote workers across the organization . Sandia also plans to establish several hubs around the country that eventually will allow classified work to be done at secure locations other than those in New Mexico and . California The move toward remote work was sparked by the pandemic , but over time has
. Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Arachnid has three versions of male . 8217 How does that happen June 29, 2023 University of Auckland An alpha male harvestman Harvestmen , a type of long-legged arachnids , exhibit three types of males , each with different body sizes and . behaviors Alpha and beta males are large and use their oversized jaws as weapons to fight for females , while gamma males are smaller and seek to mate sneakily with undefended . females Research suggests that males which lost at least one leg during their development are more likely to become gamma males , possibly due to limited food intake or a disadvantage in . fighting Long-legged arachnids called harvestmen are âtrimorphic,â featuring three types
Skip to content Menu Our Bloggers Twitter Google News Substack FaceBook Contribute Contact Search Scientists find evidence for slow-rolling sea of gravitational waves June 29, 2023 Caltech Artist's concept of a collection of pulsars that detect gravitational waves from pairs of orbiting supermassive black holes . Scientists from the University of Cambridge have detected evidence of a background of gravitational waves , providing the first confirmation of their existence in our Earth and the . universe The findings come from 15 years of observations by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves NANOGrav which used radio telescopes to monitor pulsars and detect the faint effects of gravitational . waves NANOGrav’s detection of gravitational waves is from pairs of
: , , Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , June 26, 2023 The vagus nerve , heart rate variability , and subjective wellbeing a MindBlog self experiment In this post I pass on to MindBlog readers a NYTimes article by Christina Caron that has been republished several time by the newspaper . It is a sane account of what the vagus nerve is and what it does . The vagus is the main nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system . Unlike the sympathetic nervous system , which is associated with arousal of the body and the fight or flight” response , the parasympathetic branch helps us rest , digest and calm down . Numerous experiments have shown that increased activity of the nerve