Scientoon on "Lead exposure shrank IQ scores of half of Americans"

Lead exposure shrank IQ scores of half of Americans

Scientoon on "Lead exposure shrank IQ scores of half of Americans" based on paper published in PNAS by scientists from Florida State University College of Social Sciences & Public Policy & Duke University Department of Psychology & Neuroscience. 

Link to Original Publication: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118631119

 

Scientoon on Visitors to Antarctica may Harm Penguins by Infecting Them

Scientoon on Visitors to Antarctica may Harm Penguins by Infecting Them

New study, detected bacteria from humans (Salmonella and Campylobacter) in Antarctic and subantarctic animals, indicating the fragility of Antarctic ecosystems and warns about the risk of massive deaths and extinctions of local fauna populations due pathogens.

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Reference: Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar, Elisabet Moré, Teresa Ayats, Mònica Aguilera, Sara Muñoz-González, Noelia Antilles, Peter G. Ryan, Jacob González-Solís. Do humans spread zoonotic enteric bacteria in Antarctica? Science of The Total Environment, 2019; 654: 190

Scientoon based on “Effect of the Oil spill on Sense of Stingray fish”

Scientoon based on “Effect of the Oil spill on Sense of Stingray fish”

Scientists from Florida, USA found that the oil spill is having a very hazardous effect on stingray fish. Marine fishes, like stingray fishes, rely upon the effective functioning of their sensory systems for detection of prey, mates, and predators. Exposure to spilt oil, they are losing the sense and, that harm them a lot.

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Reference: Eloise J. Cave, Stephen M. Kajiura. Effect of Deepwater Horizon Crude Oil Water Accommodated Fraction on Olfactory Function in the Atlantic Stingray, Hypanus sabinus. Scientific Reports, 2018; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34140-0

 

 

Scientoon based Effect of Noise Pollution on Whale

Scientoon based Effect of Noise Pollution on Whale

Japanese Researchers noted that the sounds of ships are disturbing the song of humpback whale.  

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Reference: Tsujii K, Akamatsu T, Okamoto R, Mori K, Mitani Y, Umeda N (2018) Changein singing behaviour of humpback whales caused by shipping  noise. PLoSONE13(10):e0204112. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204112