US political crackdown spurs fears of Chinese brain-drain

Springer Nature disseminates propaganda not science! Springer Nature engages with disinformation on behalf of the Dimocrats in an important election year!

Springer Nature compiled here some ambiguous and very selective information in this article! They mix here e.g. intentionally Chinese scientists from China with scientists with Chinese background (U.S. citizens). The article contains more of such annoying sleight of hands!

"“There are certainly people leaving,” says Steven Chu, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist at Stanford University in California, who was secretary of energy under former [most socialist president since LBJ] US president Barack Obama."
Is this the same Steven Chu that signed the Nobel Laureates endorse Joe Biden endorsement (I blogged here about it)? I think so! Steven Chu is quoted about six times in this article much more than anyone else! Steven Chu is also the current president of the ideologically tainted  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (I have blogged about it)

US political crackdown spurs fears of Chinese brain-drain An exodus of foreign-born scientists would be a great loss for US science, say research leaders.

Five ways that Trump is undermining environmental protections under the cover of coronavirus

When Springer Nature disseminates propaganda and demagoguery! When Springer Nature becomes a mouthpiece of Big Government!

Why government mandated central planning and overregulation is necessary to improve the environment is not questioned at all! At any time, there are competing alternative solutions, but when Big Government intervenes many of the alternatives never get a chance! 

Five ways that Trump is undermining environmental protections under the cover of coronavirus: While the world focuses on the pandemic, the United States is adopting controversial policies at the Environmental Protection Agency.

How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak

Updated: 5/16/2020

We ought to apply sewage testing also to the common cold and influenza!

One more article about about this subject:

Countries Begin Large-Scale Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage

Researchers have found traces of the coronavirus at wastewater treatment plants in various locations around the world.

"In recent months, various researchers in several countries including the US, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, and France have all reported the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, ... " Plus Israel.

Sounds promising! Hopefully, this would allow to estimate the total number of infected people by not having to test every individual.

" ... Analysing wastewater — used water that goes through the drainage system to a treatment facility — is one way that researchers can track infectious diseases that are excreted in urine or faeces, such as SARS-CoV-2. ... One treatment plant can capture wastewater from more than one million people .... Some efforts to monitor the virus have been stalled by university and laboratory shut-downs and the limited availability of reagents to conduct tests ... detected traces of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater at Schiphol Airport in Tilburg only four days after the Netherlands confirmed its first case of COVID-19 using clinical testing. ... Tracking viral particles in wastewater could give public-health officials a head start on deciding whether to introduce measures such as lockdowns, ... Earlier identification of the virus’s arrival in a community might limit the health and economic damage caused by COVID-19"

How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak: Wastewater testing could also be used as an early-warning sign if the virus returns.

Squid say hello with a light show

Amazing stuff!

"In the ocean’s dark reaches, these squid 'flashed' or 'flickered' when in the presence of others of their kind. To do so, the animals turned on internal bioluminescent organs that made their entire bodies glow — except where the glow was covered by overlying patterns of pigmentation.
But when squids pursued prey, they dimmed themselves. "

Squid say hello with a light show : Research Highlights: Marine creatures send signals to each other by combining bioluminescence and skin pigments.

A simple nuclear fusion recipe : Research Highlights

Good news! Still waiting for nuclear fusion to become viable!

"... that neodymium–boron permanent magnets [instead of superconducting coils] had become powerful enough to help. His team’s conceptual design combines simpler, ring-shaped superconducting coils with pancake-shaped magnets attached outside the plasma’s vacuum vessel.  ... "

A simple fusion recipe : Research Highlights: Permanent magnets could help to optimize the geometry of a future fusion reactor.