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MIT: Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient ( news.mit.edu )

The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency....

Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness ( www.vox.com )

As the years passed, Chalmers and Koch forgot about their bet, but in 2018, the science journalist Per Snaprud brought it back to their attention. A few years later, as part of a $20 million project supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, a series of “adversarial experiments” were designed to pit theories of...

Virtual Particles: What are they? ( profmattstrassler.com )

I'm a layperson when it comes to physics, and I've always been a bit confused about what virtual particles actually are, especially since the terminology is often downright misleading – "virtual particles in and out of existence", other particles "exchanging virtual particles" etc. This blog post by theoretical physicist Matt...

The Misinformation Susceptibility Test (MIST): A psychometrically validated measure of news veracity discernment - Behavior Research Methods ( link.springer.com )

Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’ ( www.science.org )

Women hunt in vast majority of foraging societies, upending old stereotypes

Reports of Negative Interactions with Healthcare Providers among Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive People assigned Female at Birth in the United States: Results from an Online Survey ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )

Hot Testicle Hypothesis May Explain Why Elephants Evolved Anti-Cancer Genes ( www.technologynetworks.com )

Women With Obesity Clear Alcohol From Their Systems 52% Faster Than Women of Healthy Weights ( www.technologynetworks.com )

Linear and Star Dunes ( www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov )

A complex system of dunes displays an array of patterns in the Rub’ al Khali sand sea in southeast Saudi Arabia.

Ocean-friendly Sunscreen- Formulating a sunscreen alternative that won't harm ocean life ( stanmed.stanford.edu )

1.6-billion-year-old steroid fossils hint at a lost world of microbial life ( www.sciencenews.org )

Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago....

The Effect of Self-Monitoring Limited Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being ( tmb.apaopen.org )

How a harmless lie created an iconic Dodgers infield - Los Angeles Times ( www.latimes.com )

The most decorated infield in Dodgers history started, of all things, with one small, harmless lie....

In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky for people who can get pregnant ( arstechnica.com )

Bison reintroduced to Canada's Banff thrive again ( phys.org )

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/720520...

Type 1 Diabetes Incidence and Risk in Children With a Diagnosis of COVID-19 ( jamanetwork.com )

"The incidence of type 1 diabetes in children increased during the COVID-19 pandemic,1-4 but studies have not discriminated between children with and without infection. We analyzed a large population-based, individual-patient data set that included diagnoses of COVID-19 to determine whether there was a temporal association...

A CRISPR-based method makes T cells that thwart teens’ cancer ( www.nature.com )

does anyone has access to the full white paper? I looked on z-lib and Google scholar and neither has them yet. I'm sure it will be findable eventually, but I'll probably have forgotten about it by then. @piracy

First gene therapy for deadly form of muscular dystrophy gets FDA approval for young children ( www.pbs.org )

Study indicate that individuals with lower income and education levels benefit most from free speech, while people with greater resources are more likely to prioritize free speech highly ( www.sciencedirect.com )

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