Software Horror Game ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Scientists deliberately gave women Zika — here’s why ( www.nature.com )
Laser mapping reveals hidden structures in Amazon—with hints at thousands more ( www.science.org )
Wi-Fi Can Decode Hidden Words Concealed Behind Walls ( www.sciencealert.com )
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft ( apnews.com )
Genetically modified bacteria break down plastics in saltwater ( www.sciencedaily.com )
To address this challenge, the researchers worked with two species of bacteria. The first bacterium, Vibrio natriegens, thrives in saltwater and is remarkable – in part – because it reproduces very quickly. The second bacterium, Ideonella sakaiensis, is remarkable because it produces enzymes that allow it to break down PET...
The future of affordable cancer immunotherapy. ( doi.org )
Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
doi.org/10.1126/science.abq7487
Webb Reveals New Structures Within Iconic Supernova ( webbtelescope.org )
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has been a target of intense observations at wavelengths ranging from gamma rays to radio for nearly 40 years, since its discovery in...
Dead trees around the world are shocking scientists ( knowablemagazine.org )
Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.
Can MDMA Therapy Ease the World's Traumas? Critics Aren't Sure. ( undark.org )
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Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
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Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea ( www.scientificamerican.com )
How the Brain Detects & Regulates Inflammation ( www.pasteur.fr )
Newly created ultra-hard material rivals diamond ( phys.org )
Massive skull of prehistoric sea monster that was the 'ultimate killing machine' discovered in UK ( www.businessinsider.com )
120 million-year-old 'plants' turn out to be ultra-rare fossilized baby turtles ( www.livescience.com )
Why It’s Hard to Break Plastics ( physics.aps.org )
Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists ( www.cnn.com )
Journal article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…/advs.202303575
The Fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore ( blogs.lse.ac.uk )
The ‘Fediverse’ provides tools and technologies that are ideally suited to bring scholarly societies out of their digital caves and into the 21st century....
Volcano Eruption Imminent: Iceland Declares State of Emergency ( www.sciencealert.com )
First-ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct ( www.bbc.com )
Scientists have filmed an ancient egg-laying mammal named after Sir David Attenborough for the first time, proving it isn’t extinct as was feared....
Weather forecast VS actual rain ( discuss.tchncs.de )
This is a screenshot of my weather app showing forecasted (smooth blue/purple) rain of the French Arome model VS rain radar (sharp green/yellow contours). It actually does a pretty good job on the large scale but the details aren’t always quite right. Dies anyone know how rain probabilities are computed from these models...
Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual violence concerns ( apnews.com )
Dust Might Have Snuffed Out the Dinosaurs ( www.nytimes.com )
A simulation suggests that fine particles played a stronger role in cooling the planet and stalling photosynthesis after an asteroid impacted the Earth....
