ryallsfiles:

Fantastic Four model sheet by John Byrne. Also, the endpapers for our coming John Byrne’s Fantastic Four Artist’s Edition, which I saw printed and bound for the first time today. Marvel Comics, I can’t thank you enough for letting us do this one.

nprglobalhealth:

How One Fraudulent Medical Study Fueled A UK Measles Epidemic

Great Britain is in the midst of a measles epidemic, one that public health officials say is the result of parents refusing to vaccinate their children after a safety scare that was later proved to be fraudulent.

More than 1,200 people have come down with measles so far this year, following nearly 2,000 cases in 2012. Many of the cases have been in Wales.

Childhood vaccination rates plummeted in Great Britain after a 1998 paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield claimed that the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella had caused autism in a dozen children. That study has since been proven fraudulent, but it fueled fears about vaccine safety in Great Britain and the United States.

“This is the legacy of the Wakefield scare,” Dr. David Elliman, spokesman for the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, told The Associated Press.

Continue reading.

Illustration of the measles virus, Morbillivirus, by Mehdi jmiai/Wikimedia.org (F: Fusion Glycoprotein; H: Hemagglutinine; V: V Protein; L: Polymerase)

beam-meh-up-scotty:

At the park enjoying the weather! (at Prospect Park)

1uppitynegress:

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atlantabraves:

Homestand Sweep…COMPLETE!

thenewenlightenmentage:

What is a Pulsar?

It is predicted that supernovae triggered by stars that do not have enough mass for their cores to form black holes will result in neutron stars.

Neutron stars are small (about 20km across), rotate rapidly and are incredibly dense. They are mostly made of neutrons that formed as electrons combined with protons in the atomic nuclei of the dying stars’ collapsing cores. Their powerful magnetic fields lead to radio pulses that can be detected on the Earth each time they rotate. These objects are known as pulsars when the pulses can be detected on the Earth.¹

History

The British astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars while completing her PhD at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. Using a radio telescope designed by her adviser Anthony Hewish and Martin Ryle (both men later shared a Nobel prize for their work), Bell Burnell found strange radio pulses coming from a single point in the sky.

After a period of confusion about what was causing the pulses, Bell Burnell and her colleagues confirmed that pulsars, as the sources of pulses came to be known, are emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars.²

Known Pulsars

The Vela Pulsar (watch here)

The Crab Pulsar

47 Tucanae

Bonus: Pulsar Sounds (Listen Here)

1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/sights/pulsars

2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/scientists/jocelyn_bell_burnell