Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world ( www.bbc.com )
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn ( www.sydney.edu.au )
New research - and a world-first experimental result - display the potential for using quantum technology to explore new designs in material science, drugs or solar energy harvesting.
Screen time linked with developmental delays, study finds | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
A study in JAMA Pediatrics found a relationship between screen time as a baby and developmental delays as a toddler. This draws more ground to further investigate the health effects of electronics usage by children and what types of media have detrimental effects on development.
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature ( www.bbc.com )
When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the ‘Back Door’ ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
What a journey for this beetle!
Algae as a surprising meat alternative and source of environmentally friendly protein ( news.exeter.ac.uk )
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Advice for channel using GPT-4-Turbo for scientific paper summaries? ( m.youtube.com )
So I’ve been working on an implementation of GPT-4-Turbo that’s designed to ingress entire papers into its context window and process them into summaries that would be understandable by someone with a highschool education (originally went for 8th grade max, but that led to rather patronizing results lol). The machine tells...
These bats are the only mammals known to mate without non penetrative sex ( www.sciencenews.org )
This study in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) shows that the penis is used as a ‘copulatory arm’ rather than an intromittent organ, revealing a novel copulatory behaviour in mammals. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0
1 in 50 Million Chance: US Woman With Rare Double Uterus Is Pregnant in Both ( www.sciencealert.com )
What is the radius of the hydrogen atom? - ACollierAstro ( yt.artemislena.eu )
Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why ( www.nature.com )
An experiment found that the brain uses one set of neural circuits to identify the numbers 1–4; these circuits are very specific to their own numbers. A separate set of circuits respond to the numbers 5–9; these are less precise, and are activated by adjacent numbers....
What to know about COVID as hospitalizations go up and some places bring back masks ( www.usatoday.com )
A late-summer uptick in COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths has some schools, hospitals and other businesses scrambling to keep illness from spreading....
Opinion | In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet. ( wapo.st )
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LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery ( www.nature.com )
There is a ‘gravity hole’ in the Indian Ocean, and scientists now think they know why | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
AI laser that reads heartbeat through the throat could replace stethoscopes ( www.theguardian.com )
Downregulation of transposable elements extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans ( scitechdaily.com )
This study shows that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the downregulation of active TE families extends lifespan. These findings link DNA activity to aging and opens up new possibilities in medical and biological research for health improvement and age determination. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40957-(open access)
Study via questionnaire (n = 126) about the perception of chemistry in No Man's Sky and how games can be used by science communicators. ( journals.sagepub.com )
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For the first time, scientists have found evidence of menopause in wild chimpanzees ( www.abc.net.au )
Urine samples collected from wild chimpanzees in Uganda over decades have revealed older female chimps undergo hormonal changes much like those in menopausal humans.
Students with higher social class backgrounds might be healthier because they sleep better ( www.psypost.org )
“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases ( pme.uchicago.edu )
Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods ( www.wired.com )
Billion-dollar cultivated-meat startup Upside Foods wants you to think the breakthrough chicken fillets it sells are made in a futuristic factory. A WIRED investigation tells a different story. On July 1, five diners sat down at the counter of the Michelin-starred Bar Crenn in San Francisco for an unusual meal. They had won a...
People don't like if they find out a friend used AI to help craft a message to them, a new study suggests. But they are equally upset if their friend had writing help from another person ( news.osu.edu )
Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming ( www.science.org )
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