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- AskScience AMA Series: We're scientists and researchers with Rainforest Partnership, an NGO focused on creating impact and progress for tropical rainforests. AUA!
- Do the Covid vaccines have positive non-specific effects?
- Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology
- How might a COVID vaccine treat COVID symptoms?
- Why does the direction the Entire Solar System is headed towards not match the Orbital North Pole?
- How does Symmetrical Encryption really work?
- Why can't they just stop diverting the rivers so as to replenish the Aral sea?
- What factors determine the loudness and power of a supersonic sonic boom?
- So, if a person gets the first dose of a Covid mRNA vaccine without noticeable issue, how could they have an allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to the second dose? How is this possible?
- Does a chromosome always contain the same genes?
- What is the scientific explanation for pressure points and why do they hurt more than random areas?
- Why do bruises turn blue?
- Can fish in the same family hybridize?
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| Do the Covid vaccines have positive non-specific effects? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:45 PM PDT Some vaccines appear to have non-specific (or heterologous) effects. Specifically, the two live-attenuated BCG and measles vaccines seem to grant protection against things beyond what they were designed for. Meanwhile, the DTP vaccine, which is not live-attenuated, may have a detrimental non-specific effect, although the evidence here looks weaker. (EDIT: The possible effect here is a mild and negative immunomodulation. Studies attempting to replicate it keep giving conflicting data. Whatever it is, the effect is weak if it's there at all. No reason to start questioning vaccines, people.) I know it's early but I was wondering which category the Covid vaccines might fit in. So, do the mRNA Covid vaccines have positive non-specific effects? Do the adenovirus-based ones? [link] [comments]  |
| Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Posted: 21 Apr 2021 07:00 AM PDT Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...". Asking Questions: Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists. Answering Questions: Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience. If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here. Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| How might a COVID vaccine treat COVID symptoms? Posted: 21 Apr 2021 07:49 AM PDT There have been (thus far anecdotal) reports that some people experiencing "long haul" COVID symptoms long after they contracted COVID-19 have had them reduce or disappear after being vaccinated against COVID. I thought vaccines could only be used as a preventative measure, not as a therapeutic. What possible mechanisms would cause one of the vaccines to actually treat existing symptoms of the disease, assuming these reports are actually true? [link] [comments]  |
| Why does the direction the Entire Solar System is headed towards not match the Orbital North Pole? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 11:07 PM PDT So I have read on multiple sources that the entire solar system is headed towards Vega. If anyone knows the exact Right-Ascension & Declination of the direction the entire solar system is headed (and the scientific name of "where we are headed" if there is one) I would love to see it. But I couldn't find it, so here is Vega's: 18h 36m 56.33635, 38° 47′ 01.2802 [Wikipedia] Meanwhile, our Orbital North Pole is 18 h 0 m 0 s +66° 33′ 38.84″ [wiki/Orbital_pole] That is a pretty big discrepancy of about 30 degrees. I find that interesting because we are told that the Solar System's movement through the galaxy is perpendicular to how the planets orbit such as pictures such as this show! Now I know that the planet's orbital planes vary, but none vary this much. Does the entire solar system move in a way such that its motion is not perpendicular to how most planets orbit the Sun, and is instead a bit skewed? [link] [comments]  |
| How does Symmetrical Encryption really work? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 03:00 PM PDT I get that one key is able to both encrypt and decrypt, but I can't find an explanation as to how that flies practically. Let's say you send e-mails using Symmetrical Encryption. Do you have a different key for every e-mail that's sent? And how are those keys exchanged with no possible interception? [link] [comments]  |
| Why can't they just stop diverting the rivers so as to replenish the Aral sea? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 04:53 PM PDT This is something that has bugged me about the Aral sea since I learned of what the soviets did to it. I understand the water is still being used for agriculture in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, but the devastation of losing the 4th largest lake in the world would seem to me to outweigh that. Am I missing something here? They just had a "Global Disruptive Tech Challenge 2021: Restoring Landscapes in the Aral Sea Region" in April, but none of them discussed even partially returning the rivers. [link] [comments]  |
| What factors determine the loudness and power of a supersonic sonic boom? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 09:11 AM PDT |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2021 03:59 PM PDT I read on VAERS about a woman that had the first vaccine does without issue. Upon the administration of her second dose, she had a full blown anaphylatic reaction. How is this possible? Wouldn't the body of recognized and reacted to this the first time if a person was truly allergic? [link] [comments]  |
| Does a chromosome always contain the same genes? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 09:27 AM PDT My current understanding (prob wrong) If I have a child I will pass on 23 of my chromosomes to it. Those 23 will be a random selection from the ones I inherited, so my child may end up with 6 of the ones I inherited from my father and 17 of the ones I inherited from my mother. Question [link] [comments]  |
| What is the scientific explanation for pressure points and why do they hurt more than random areas? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 09:27 AM PDT |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2021 04:38 AM PDT So I slammed the tip of my finger in a car door like a fool and noticed that the bruise under the nail is blue, why is that? Google says it's because of the blood but (I know this sounds dumb) shouldn't it be red? [link] [comments]  |
| Can fish in the same family hybridize? Posted: 20 Apr 2021 06:47 AM PDT Bluegill, and largemouth bass are both in the sunfish family, does this mean they can hybridize or is their DNA to dissimilar? [link] [comments]  |
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