Dec 21, 2021 09:46 PM
Parasitic worms in dogs, cats may jump into people
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-parasitic-...eople.html
INTRO: Parasitic worms that infect companion animals such as dogs and cats are more likely to make the leap into humans than other worm species, according to new research from the University of Georgia's Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. The study also identified three species of worms that don't currently infect people but have a more than 70% chance of crossing into humans in the future.
"The close relationships that we have with pets is the predominant reason why people might become infected with new species of parasitic worms," said Ania Majewska, lead author of the study and a doctoral graduate from the Odum School of Ecology. "Everyday behaviors like playing with and feeding our pets increase opportunities for those parasites to infect people." (MORE - details)
These discoveries from 2021, if true, could shake up science
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...ig-if-true
EXCERPTS: Discoveries in 2021 dared the world to consider grand possibilities in physics, space and the origins of life. Will these bold claims hold up to scrutiny?
Antistarry night. Scientists may have spotted stars made of antimatter. Finding antistars challenges a basic tenet of cosmology — that the vast majority of the universe’s antimatter, matter’s oppositely charged doppelgänger, was destroyed long ago. [...]
Misbehaving muons. Nothing gets physicists more excited than evidence of a new fundamental particle. [...]
Cosmic curve ball. In other news that may upend our understanding of the cosmos, scientists detected a giant arc of galaxies stretching across more than 3 billion light-years. [...]
Early arrival. This year brought new evidence that humans arrived in the Americas more than 15,000 years earlier than traditionally thought, throwing support behind last year’s claim that humans reached North America by about 33,000 years ago [...]
Oldest animal fossils? Tiny tubes found in 890-million-year old rocks might be remnants of sea sponges. If that claim holds up, the tubes would push animal origins back by about 350 million years to an oxygen-poor period considered unsuitable for animal life. [...]
Extragalactic planet. Astronomers may have detected the first known planet outside of the Milky Way, in a galaxy about 28 million light-years from Earth... (MORE - missing details)
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-parasitic-...eople.html
INTRO: Parasitic worms that infect companion animals such as dogs and cats are more likely to make the leap into humans than other worm species, according to new research from the University of Georgia's Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. The study also identified three species of worms that don't currently infect people but have a more than 70% chance of crossing into humans in the future.
"The close relationships that we have with pets is the predominant reason why people might become infected with new species of parasitic worms," said Ania Majewska, lead author of the study and a doctoral graduate from the Odum School of Ecology. "Everyday behaviors like playing with and feeding our pets increase opportunities for those parasites to infect people." (MORE - details)
These discoveries from 2021, if true, could shake up science
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...ig-if-true
EXCERPTS: Discoveries in 2021 dared the world to consider grand possibilities in physics, space and the origins of life. Will these bold claims hold up to scrutiny?
Antistarry night. Scientists may have spotted stars made of antimatter. Finding antistars challenges a basic tenet of cosmology — that the vast majority of the universe’s antimatter, matter’s oppositely charged doppelgänger, was destroyed long ago. [...]
Misbehaving muons. Nothing gets physicists more excited than evidence of a new fundamental particle. [...]
Cosmic curve ball. In other news that may upend our understanding of the cosmos, scientists detected a giant arc of galaxies stretching across more than 3 billion light-years. [...]
Early arrival. This year brought new evidence that humans arrived in the Americas more than 15,000 years earlier than traditionally thought, throwing support behind last year’s claim that humans reached North America by about 33,000 years ago [...]
Oldest animal fossils? Tiny tubes found in 890-million-year old rocks might be remnants of sea sponges. If that claim holds up, the tubes would push animal origins back by about 350 million years to an oxygen-poor period considered unsuitable for animal life. [...]
Extragalactic planet. Astronomers may have detected the first known planet outside of the Milky Way, in a galaxy about 28 million light-years from Earth... (MORE - missing details)