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📚 **The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein**
Volume One: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-l/.
Volume Two: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-2-1900-1909.
Volume Three: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einsten-volume-3-the-swiss-year-1909-1911.
Volume Six: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol.-6-the-berlin-years-writings-1914-1917.
**Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA**
"_Lifelong sexless individuals are, on average, higher educated, use less substances, and feel lonelier and unhappier. Sexless men tend to live in regions with fewer women, and sexlessness was more prevalent in regions with higher income inequality._"
Abdellaoui, A. et al. (2025) 'Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(38). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418257122.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Psychology #Academia #Academics
🌔 **Over a Trillion Dollars in Platinum May Be Buried on the Moon — And Scientists Just Found the Map**
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/over-trillion-dollars-platinum-buried-moon/.
🧠 **Having Trouble Concentrating or Remembering? It’s Not Just You, Study Finds**
"_The new study examined 4.5 million survey responses from 2013 to 2023, finding that among people under 40, cognitive disability has jumped from 5.1% to 9.7%._"
#Research #Study #Neurology #Medicine #Health #Science #Academia #Academics
🧬 **His lab’s ancient DNA studies are rewriting human history**
🌡️ **Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: study**
"_According to the study, Italy was the country with the most heat deaths last summer with an estimated 19,000, followed by Spain and Germany, both with over 6,000._"
#Study #Research #Science #Heatwave #Epidemiology #Health #RiskFactors #Europe
**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**
"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"
Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.
🌳 **Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition**
"_We conclude that forests are good indicators for atmospheric microplastic pollution and that high microplastic concentrations in forest soils indicate a high diffuse input of microplastics into these ecosystems._"
Weber, C.J., Bigalke, M. Forest soils accumulate microplastics through atmospheric deposition. Commun Earth Environ 6, 702 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02712-4.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Geosciences #Science #Chemistry #Environment #Plastics #Pollution #Academia #Academics
🇬🇧 **UK loses life sciences investment as pharma companies halt expansion plans**
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**This man predicted the Moon landing (in 1638!)**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f8nVn9eUSGE.
#History #EarlyModern #Science #HistSci #Physics #Space #Moon
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
🧬 **DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
**Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration**
"_In summary, in the current political climate, as invasion discourses about migrants are indeed a global trend from Europe and the US to South Africa, India or Hong Kong, drawing parallels between biological invasion and human migration risks facilitating the misappropriation of invasion science research by political ideologies, potentially criminalising migrant communities and legitimising exclusionary measures of migrants._"
Barbulescu, R. et al. (2025) ‘Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2496–2501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2527906.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Race #Migration #Migrants #Culture #AcademicChatter #Academia @science @academicchatter
🚽 **Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids**
"_The study suggests that prolonged engagement with smartphones while using the toilet may be associated with an increased prevalence of hemorrhoids._"
Ramprasad C, Wu C, Chang J, Rangan V, Iturrino J, et al. (2025) Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids. PLOS ONE 20(9): e0329983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329983.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #Gastroenterology #Medicine #Health #Phones #Hemorrhoids #Toilet #Academia @science
🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**
"_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"
Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science
**Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**
"_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"
Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science
🇵🇹 🧬 **The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years**
"_We reveal dynamic patterns of migration in line with cultural exchange across millennia, but also the persistence of local ancestries._"
Roca-Rada, X., Davidson, R., Williams, M.P. et al. The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years. Genome Biol 26, 248 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #Portugal #Iberia #Paleogenomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Anthropology #Migration #Academia @science @archaeology @anthropology
**Nazi Human Experiments Still Influence Medicine Today**
"_A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?_"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-human-experiments-still-influence-medicine-today/a-73742634.
#History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Research #Nazi #Germany @science
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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