Jan 11, 2024 | Salon.com
Dr. Colin Sullivan is a prominent sleep expert the inventor of the continuous positive airway pressure machine, better known as the CPAP, which helps the millions of patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, get a decent night’s sleep. So when he shared his views about snoring with Salon during an interview last year, it was worthy of attention....
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Jan 11, 2024 | Salon.com
Recently released trail camera footage has apparently identified a live wild jaguar in Arizona, indications that an exceedingly rare species may be making a comeback. This is only the eighth individual jaguar conclusively identified in the American Southwest in the last three decades. This particular cat was differentiated from others through its unique pattern of rosettes, the spots found on jaguars, leopards and other wild feline species....
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Dec 29, 2023 | Salon.com
Before the start of the 2020s, almost anyone who admitted to a belief in UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or extraterrestrial visitors was dismissed as a crackpot. Yet since the start of the decade, the Pentagon has repeatedly and openly acknowledged that their own pilots have spotted and recorded images of UFOs (more specifically known as UAPs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena)....
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Dec 28, 2023 | Salon.com
Aside from being cold, snowflakes are well-known for their unique shapes. New research illuminates how these lovely crystals form. When the air is still snowflakes gently drift to the surface, but on other occasions they get violently tossed about by wind and other forms of precipitation. While this can be beautiful to observe, it also adds an element of the unpredictable to snowstorms — although a group of researchers at the University of Utah may have helped change that forever....
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Dec 28, 2023 | Conspiracy Theories, Salon.com
When billionaires like Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates talk about weather control, casual followers of the news might think they are advocating a pie-in-the-sky fantasy. In Gates’ case, the ostensible goal is to save humanity from the climate change primarily caused by burning fossil fuels. Yet Gates is not alone in bringing weather control to the global conversations....
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Dec 27, 2023 | Salon.com
Understandably, COVID-19 is largely thought of as a respiratory illness. Its most notorious symptoms include coughing, congestion and a sore throat, and people can limit its spread by covering their noses and mouths with masks. Yet as many people know from experience, COVID-19 can do a lot more than hurt the lungs and throat....
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Dec 27, 2023 | Salon.com
The biodiversity of frogs and toads demonstrates just how ingenious evolution can get. Some are like the glass frog, which resembles a particularly famous Muppet. Others are like the Colorado River toad, whose skin secretes a powerful hallucinogenic enzyme called 5-MeO-DMT. Then there is the so-called “horror frog” or hairy frog, which can break its own bones to pierce through its toes and form makeshift claws....
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Dec 25, 2023 | Salon.com
Reindeer are traditionally associated with Christmas lore — and, if you follow the latest research on reindeer, you can see that there is a good reason for this. While real-life reindeer do not fly, they have a number of other freaky biological traits, and like Rudolph’s nose, recent research is illuminating what makes reindeer tick....
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Dec 22, 2023 | Salon.com
Carbon is often referred to as “the bedrock of life” because the element appears in all known life forms. This is because the sixth entry on the periodic table has the unique ability to form the complex molecules needed to form so-called “organic” matter. As such, when scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, one of the first things they do is search for organic compounds — that is, matter which has carbon and could therefore support life....
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Dec 22, 2023 | Salon.com
In the early 1990s, an overgrown shaggy schlub of a St. Bernard named Beethoven won the hearts of millions of children with a pair of hit theatrical movies, the titularly titled “Beethoven” (1992) and “Beethoven’s 2nd” (1993). Tragically, the real-life Beethoven died shortly after the sequel was filmed, thereby inadvertently raising awareness about how St....
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